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And then Fowler had thudded the ball away with a long swing of his foot and the last half had begun. The Claflin full-back pulled the ball out of the air, quick interference formed about him and he came charging back up the field. Five ten fifteen yards! Then Miller pulled him down with a savage tackle and the two teams faced each other.
Then heavy forms thudded against the log walls of the hut, and through the loophole he heard deep breathing. "They've gained the side of the cabin," said Henry, "and we can't reach 'em with our rifles now." "I did my best, Henry," said Paul ruefully. Conflict did not appeal to him, but the wilderness left no choice.
The horsemen had thudded on; out from the timber into the road the Indians, one hundred, two hundred, swarmed and met the footmen with the tomahawk. The Indians' guns were empty; the thirty Long Knives knew that their own safety lay in the threat of powder and ball. An Indian will think twice before charging a loaded rifle with a tomahawk.
A thrown knife caught him in the chest. Gunnar took another step, and another knife caught him below the throat. He stood there, trying to go on, and a mace thudded against his temple. Gunnar reeled back into the flames. A deadening quiet fell over the huge room where Maya's and Ato's little armies were making their last stand. The flames were dying out in the tunnels and on the stairway.
Just then there was a whistle in the air; nearer and nearer, faster and louder, louder and faster, a cannon ball, as if it had not finished saying what was necessary, thudded into the ground near the shed with super human force, throwing up a mass of earth. The ground seemed to groan at the terrible impact.
Guess you don't know Bart Brittler, sonny! Let 'em have it, Dolph!" Spang spang spang spang! A fusillade of revolver-shots woke the echoes. The bullets spattered in the water and thudded on the beach. Fortunately no one was hit. "Scatter, fellows!" shouted Jim. And in a lower voice he added, "Don't fire back!" Silence again. The two on the sloop were evidently reloading.
And all the time, away up the corridor, the door of the Grey Room thudded at solemn and horrid intervals. It was a miserable, brutal night. "When the day began to break, the thudding of the door came gradually to an end, and, at last, I got hold of my courage, and went along the corridor in the half light to cap the lens of my camera.
Elfreda's watch showed that it lacked but a few minutes of one when, as she gazed at the illuminated dial, Grace suddenly gripped her arm. "I heard something in the bushes," whispered Grace. "It may have been an animal. I rather think it was. Something thudded on the ground between the two girls and the laurel shrubs. "Wha at is it?" whispered Grace. "A stick of wood," replied Elfreda.
A streak of fire ripped through his shoulder. Another shot boomed almost simultaneously. He thudded hard into the fat paunch of the gunman. They went down together. The fingers of Dave's left hand closed on the fat wrist of the gambler. His other hand tore the revolver away from the slack grasp. The gun rose and fell. Miller went into unconsciousness without even a groan.
For a moment he stared at her stupidly, then at the stream of wine running across the table, then back at her and, so staring, flung up both hands and plunged forward. His brow, as he fell like an ox, thudded against the chair from which, a moment since, she had arisen. I caught up a candle. But she was before me and had dropped on her knees beside him.
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