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In a frolic humor she would take the form of a bear or deer and lead the Indian hunters anything but a merry dance, exposing them to tire and peril, and vanishing or assuming some terrible shape when they had overtaken her. Sometimes she would lead them to the cloves and would leap into the air with a mocking "Ho, ho!" just as they stopped with a shudder at the brink of an abyss.
One by one my companions, obeying a command, passed out through the door at the back, vanishing out of my life forever. None of them returned. I was vaguely wondering whether Doctor Z buried his dead on the premises or had them removed by a secret passageway in the rear, when a young woman in a nurse's costume tapped me on the shoulder from behind. I jumped.
The Indians paddled with renewed energy, and, in a few moments, they were so far away their faces were indistinguishable, and I ventured to sit on the bank, my gaze still on the vanishing canoe. So intent was I that I heard no sound of approaching footsteps, and knew nothing of De Artigny's presence until he spoke. "What is that yonder a canoe?"
"I had him I had the Vanishing Cracksman in my blessed paws and then went and let that French hussy But look here; I say, now, how do you know it was him? Nobody can go by his looks; so how do you know?" "Know, you footler!" growled Smathers, disgustedly. "Why shouldn't I know when I've been after him ever since he left Scotland Yard half an hour ago?" "Left what? My hat!
Faversham asked me to marry him, and I refused, because because of this money. I couldn't take it I begged him not to. Never mind!" She threw her head back, gulping down tears. "He thought me unreasonable. But " "He refused and left you!" cried Tatham, drinking in the sweetness of her pale beauty, as Orpheus might have watched the vanishing Eurydice.
To the charms of some of the noblest productions of human genius working by pen, or pencil, or chisel adorning roof, and wall, and floor and vanishing down the long vista in a bright perspective of beauty Nature adds her crown of perfection.
While I bent over to shake my holster, the storm passed as suddenly as it had come. When I looked up, there were the pines, like pillars of Parian marble, and a white shadow, a vanishing cloud fled, with receding roar, on the wings of the wind. Fast on this retreat burst the warm, bright sun.
He made no attempt to convey the incident of the vanishing coats. "Water yah, Nonnenmattweiher," the man repeated.
We do not forget, of course, that everywhere there are feelings after Him, and everywhere there are gleams and glimpses of a vanishing light, else life were impossible; but oh, dear brethren, let us not forget either that the people sit in darkness of ignorance, which is the saddest darkness that can afflict men.
Here, indeed, was a change of aspect! All that Dorothy had hitherto contemplated was the side of the fortress which faced the world frowning and defiant, although here and there on the point of breaking into a half smile, for the grim, suspicious, altogether repellent look of the old feudal castle had been gradually vanishing in the additions and alterations of more civilised times.