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The fountain bowl gleamed white in the moonlight behind the girl, and in the silence I could hear the low splashing of the water. A magic moment. Unforgettable. It comes to some of us just once, but to all of us it comes. I stood with its spell upon me. Then I heard my voice, tense but softly raised. "Who are you?" It frightened her. She retreated until the fountain was between us.
Presently Dodge was within sixty feet of where his High School mates crouched in hiding. Suddenly the livery stable horse, some four or five hundred feet away, whinnied loudly, impatiently. Natural as the sound was, young Dodge, in the tense state of his nerves, started and looked frightened. "Wh-what was that?" he gasped. "A horse," called Hemingway quietly.
"What can we do?" inquired one of the older men after a tense silence had followed the statement of the speaker. "If we go down to the spring the Indians will pick us off, every one." "Send the women," suggested another. "They go to the spring every morning. The Indians may not think we have any suspicion of what they are planning to do.
Why did she feel sorry now? "I didn't mean that," she said, earnestly. "Believe me, I did not." "No," he replied, "you answered out of mere indifference." "But I am not indifferent to you, Philip. I like you very much." She was afraid she had hurt his feelings, and she, herself, was so tense, so troubled, that she was uncertain of her emotional attitudes these days.
When, in response to her knock, he bade her "come in," it must be confessed that she opened the door with fear and trembling; while something in her bearing and the tense lines of her face at once aroused a suspicion of the nature of her errand in the principal's mind. "Prof.
Do you do you think that he will listen to a remonstrance?" "He will find it best in this instance," says Saxham dourly. "Do not do not be tempted to use any violence, Saxham," urges the Chaplain nervously, looking at the tense muscles of the grim, square face and the purposeful right hand that hovers near the butt of the Doctor's revolver. "For your own sake as much as for his!"
He smiled back into the illumination of the lady's candle, then descended into the darkness with a brow tense and frowning, and his weapon prepared for anything. The stair was vacant, so was the corridor. The outer door was open; the sound of the sea came in faint murmurs, the mingled odours of pine and wrack borne with it.
White as snow, Sheppard backed against the wall; but did not take the drink. The sailor had the floor; no one save him spoke a word. The action had been so rapid that there had hardly been time. Colonel Zane and Silas were as quiet and tense as the borderman. "Drink!" hoarsely cried the sailor, advancing his knife toward Sheppard's body.
She had a dim frenzied notion she should have to fight for her liberty when the call came, and she lay tense and rigid, waiting the images of insanity whirling through her brain, while the light slowly, slowly waned. Catherine opened the door into the kitchen. The two carriers were standing there, and Robert Elsmere also stood with his back to her, talking to them in an undertone.
She walked to the wall and turned her face to it. She did not cry. The room was silently tense for a few moments. "I guess I'd better go," said Dorian. She did not reply. He picked up his hat, lingered, then went to the door. She hated him. Then let him get out from her presence. She hated him. He had not thought that possible. Well, he would go.
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