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It is a pity the clocks wouldn't tick, Mister Henkel. "'Ya, ya, said Henkel, leaning over the table, 'but the butterfly? The golden butterfly? You have found it? "Scott opened the tin case slowly and clumsily, drew out the perfect insect, and laid it on the table.
"All right," said Dicky hurriedly, "we're all going." The policeman, struck by this sudden anxiety to oblige, became suspicious. "All of you?" he said. "'Ow about this mess in the road?" Robin came to the rescue. "We'll be back presently and sort it," he said reassuringly. "Of course," said Dicky, pulling himself together. "Back in 'arf a tick, governor!"
She knew Andy was under the straw tick in the garret and could not hear the low conversation going on in the kitchen. As if in answer to her agonized prayer, another shadow passed the curtained window. Sandy had not seen it or he would not have thrust forth his great arms and snatched her to him. Tess uttered a scream.
It attacks both man and beast and is one of the most dreaded of all the African pests. Nathan Bank, our foremost authority on ticks, in summing up the evidence against them says: "It is therefore evident that all ticks are potentially dangerous. Any tick now commonly infesting some wild animal, may, as its natural host becomes more uncommon, attach itself to some domestic animal.
Cartouche, as usual, was fixed upon; and in the tick of his bed, lo! there were found a couple of empty honey-pots!
"I left Chev as fit as anything, and he sent all sorts of messages," he reported, thinking it more discreet to deliver Chev's messages thus vaguely than to repeat his actual carefree remark, which had been, "Oh, tell 'em I'm jolly as a tick." But evidently there was something wrong with the words as they were, for instantly he was aware of that curious sense of withdrawal on their part.
"Got him?" I exclaimed, joyfully. "Pomp 'tick knife right froo um," he panted; and then springing up, he rapidly drew the shaft from the water, hand over hand, till, to my intense astonishment, he raised to the bank, muddy, dripping, and flapping heavily, the largest terrapin I had seen, and putting his foot upon it, he drew out the spear, which had transfixed it right in the middle of the back.
Still no sound no gleam of steel pointing at aim through the black aperture. Would the shot come from behind? Tick tick tick tick He counted the beating of his watch up to twenty. A sound stopped him then, and he closed his eyes, and a great shiver passed through his body. It was the tiny bell of his watch tinkling off the hour of six!
On top of that mess Narayan Singh pounced like a tiger, wrenching at arms and legs until I struggled to my feet again only to be thrust aside by Jeremy as he rose and rushed at Yussuf Dakmar's two assailants. But with all his speed Jeremy was a tenth of a tick too late.
The crew of the wrecked ship stood heaving and glittering in their oils, plucking their beards with a sense of trespass, hearing the steeple clock tick, and water drum on the worn floor. "All you men clear out," said Caddie Sills, faintly. "Leave me here with Jethro Rackby." They set themselves in motion, pushing one against the other with a rasp and shriek of oilskins and Peter Loud last of all.
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