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The Dewey's torpedo range was two miles, but her commander preferred to be within less than six hundred yards for a sure shot. McClure could now see the leader of the German squadron -a powerful battle cruiser -crowding on all speed. His guns astern, powerful fourteen-inch pieces in twin turrets, were in action, firing huge salvos at his pursuers.
And now began that slow and painful siege, the details of which are as terrible, but as universally known, as those of any chapters in the blood-stained history of the century. Henry seized upon the towns guarding the rivers Seine and Marne, twin nurses of Paris.
Sacred to the memory of an Ensign of the U. S. Navy, whose body, washed upon this coast, is here buried with all reverence, by strange hands; whose soul may God rest. "The seas shall sing his requiem." June the Sixth, MXMIV. "Billy Edwards," said the captain, very low. He uncovered. The surgeon did likewise. So, for a space, they stood with bared heads between the twin graves.
Yet he would rather have been dragged with his brothers to the executioner's block than humbled himself before the Swiss. But he must talk with him for the sake of his twin sons, whose heritage he had so shamefully gambled away. True, the utmost he intended was the confession that, while intoxicated, he had staked his property at the gaming table and said things which he regretted.
She held her umbrella, her bead chatelaine, and a little leather case in her grey-gloved hands, while Harry staggered out of the ugly little train with her bags. 'There's a trunk at the back, she said in her bright voice. But she was not feeling bright. The twin black cones of the iron foundry blasted their sky-high fires into the night. The whole scene was lurid. The train waited cheerfully.
One was a rich brown like illuminated agate with a fleck or two of jet across the iris, while its twin was of a colorful violet and deeply vivid. Now, of course, the heavy lashes were wet with tears, but the gorgeous beauty of the eyes was not dimmed.
And them ere twin pontoons underneath, that look kinder like gondolas, as you say, are made of aluminum, and kin hold up the whole affair when you light on water. But tell me, how in all creation kin you ever mount up agin, once you settle there?" "Why that's the easiest thing of all," replied the young aviator; "you've watched a wild duck get up many a time, haven't you, Mr.
Big Jim Torrance was thrilling with incipient twinges of a great triumph, though the superstitions of his kind struggled against their display. For two weeks his eager, hopeful eyes had been fixed on those twin lines of steel above the trestle, and not an atom of bend could he detect. What if at last he had choked that insatiable maw on the river bottom! What if his great task was nearing its end!
"So," he said, "Avalon is at Twin Forks and I am to marry you in order that you may seek out an enemy and kill him. There was also word of a gold mine. And your father d'Albret! I do not recall the name." "My father," explained Solange, "went to America when I was a babe in arms. He was very poor few of the Basques are rich and he was in danger because of the smuggling.
Now you're in trouble because of me. I should think you'd pretty near hate me." "We're in trouble together," he corrected. "I thought that was supposed to bring friends closer an' not to drive them apart." She flashed a quick look at him and changed the subject of conversation. Just now she could not afford to be emotional. "Are you going back to Twin Buttes?" "No.
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