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"I think," he said, "that question will very shortly be answered for you." Macdonald held his hand up, and a rapid thud of hoofs came faintly through the silence. "Troopers! They are coming here," he said. "Yes," said Winston. "I fancy they will relieve you from any further difficulty." Dane strode to one of the windows, and glanced at Colonel Barrington as he pulled back the catch.
There was a second of silence, then a dreadful noise like a coconut being broken on a pavement for we once had coconuts in plenty at Moonfleet, when the Bataviaman came on the beach, then a deep echoing blow, where he rebounded and struck the wall again, and last of all, the thud and thundering splash, when he reached the water at the bottom.
One thin, brown hand appeared over the edge of the lowered sash, which it grasped and then another. The man made absolutely no sound whatever. The second hand disappeared and reappeared. It held a small, square box. There was a very faint CLICK. The dacoit swung himself below the window with the agility of an ape, as, with a dull, muffled thud, SOMETHING dropped upon the carpet!
He seemed prepared for it and for a moment all her weight hung on it without moving its rigidity by a hair's breadth. Behind her Mrs. Travers heard the heavy thud of blows on wood, the confused murmurs and movements of men.
He went on, guided by the balustrade, passing three doors, all open, through which the undefined proportions of a drawing-room and boudoir were barely suggested in a ghostly dusk. By each he paused, listening, hearing nothing. His foot struck with a deadened thud against the bottom step of the second flight, and his pulses fluttered wildly for a moment. Two minutes three he waited in suspense.
Three nights in the week a brazen comet struck into a set of lancers, drowning the metallic thud of the piano and compelling his ear to follow the latest popular air to the last bar. His solitary life, his fiddling, and his singular mixture of gruffness and politeness had bred legends among the women of the neighbourhood.
He threw himself on the bed, drawing the coverings up over his head.... Presently a thud shook the house. "He has slipped from his seat," said Suvaroff aloud. "It is all over!" And he drew the bedclothes higher and went to sleep. Next morning, Suvaroff felt better. To be sure, he was weak, but he rose and dressed.
Then, unhesitatingly, it leapt for his face! He groaned and fired, missed the horror, but diverted its leap, so that it fell with a sickening thud a yard behind him. He turned, staggering back towards the stair, and aware that a light had shone out from somewhere.
The man straightened and shaded his eyes toward them. Tressa was struggling with her father. He must not shoot again. The man watched. Presently he slowly raised his rifle. The thud of the bullet in the shack not two feet from Torrance's shoulder preceded the sound of the explosion. The rifle did not drop.
Later in the day, when all the canoes were ranged side by side, their gracefully curved bows came in line; dip, swirl, thud; dip, swirl, thud, sounded all the paddles together. The time was faultless. Then it was that the picturesque brigade appeared in wild perfection. Nearing a portage, spontaneously a race began for the best landing place.
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