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But no; they were standing shoulder to shoulder, flapping their ears and curling their trunks. So many years had they been trained to hunt elephants that they did not seem to know what to do without some one to guide them. Bruce ordered one of them to kneel, doubtfully; but the big fellow obeyed the command docilely, and the colonel and Bruce helped the exhausted girl into the howdah.
Not until the boys had changed to swimming trunks in the cabin of the Water Witch did they find the answer to Zircon's question. The shadow had decided to stay with them. This time it was Rick who spotted him. The shadow was nearly hidden beyond a curve in the shore line.
They got into their separate carriages, and at that safe distance made each other more decided obeisances. "Well," observed Basil, "I suppose we're introduced now. We shall be meeting them from time to time throughout our journey. You know how the same faces and the same trunks used to keep turning up in our travels on the other side. Once meet people in travelling, and you can't get rid of them."
Tom looked at his watch. "It's a pity to break up the party. But as we are to drive to the village we must soon be off. The expressman has already taken the trunks. You'd better accept mother's invitation." "We thank you," said Madge slowly, "but will you give us a few days in which to decide? Then we will write you at Old Point Comfort." "Very well," replied Mrs.
"When your mother died, just this side o' Sweetwater, Rosey," said Mr. Nott, with beaming unconsciousness, "she had n't any trunks. I reckon she had n't even an extra gown hanging up in the wagin, 'cept the petticoat ez she had wrapped around yer. It was about ez much ez we could do to skirmish round with Injins, alkali, and cold, and we sorter forgot to dress for dinner.
Even the imperishable cocoanut trees, whose tall, bare, curved trunks rose from the lava or the burnt red earth, were gaunt, tattered, and thirsty-looking, weary of crying for moisture to the pitiless skies.
"Look out for your feet, Miss Laura!" exclaimed the maid. "I think I'll take two trunks," said her mistress thoughtfully. The negress pushed the table out of the way, and, in her flurry, nearly fell over the armchair. "Golly, such excitement!" she exclaimed. "Wheah yuh goin', Miss Laura?" "Never mind where I'm going," snapped her mistress. "I haven't any time to waste now talking.
In the squatty, whitewashed ruin which once had been the eyrie of some petty predatory despot, and which now served as an observatory for two idle divisions below in the valley, stood three telescopes. Otherwise the furniture consisted of valises, trunks, a table and chairs, a few books, several newspapers, and some tennis balls lying on the floor.
My plan was to get you into the cab and drive away like mad. Hours passed, it seemed to me, and " "I know the rest!" he cried, laughing so loud that the steward looked up reprovingly. "Is everything ready, Hugh?" she asked anxiously. "The trunks, the tickets, everything?" "Yes, dear," he said tenderly, soberly. "We are ready for the sea." "God be with us," she said wistfully. London.
"Do you see, Fabian," said Bois-Rose, "you'll be as safe behind these trunks of trees as in a stone fortress. You'll be exposed only to the balls that may be fired from the tops of the trees, but I shall take care that none of these redskins climb so high." And quite happy at having raised a barrier between Fabian and death, he assigned him his post in the place most sheltered from the enemy.
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