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If Silla had not come like a wedge between the bark and the wood, how comfortably and free from care Barbara could have lived now.
"Good gracious!" said Iris. "The story sounds unconvincing, but I believe I am correct. It is worth a trial." "I should have imagined that sago grew on a stalk like rice or wheat." "Or Topsy!" She laughed. A difficult situation had passed without undue effort. Unhappily the man reopened it. Whilst using a crowbar as a wedge he endeavored to put matters on a straightforward footing.
'Well, perhaps not, but in allowing this to pass isn't it the thin end of the wedge? 'Give him a chance and see, she said. 'Don't be in a hurry. After all, he's your great friend. You're always talking to me about him; and what's he done? sent a few flowers and called here once. I'm sure he thought you would like it.
Johnny, whose sources of information were many and varied, called on a certain Miss Purry the very next morning, taking along Val Russel to introduce him. "Any friend of Mr. Russel's is welcome, I am sure," declared Miss Purry, passing a clammy wedge of a hand to Johnny, who felt the chill in his palm creeping down his spine. "Of the Maryland Gambles?"
The very weight of the desperate charge of this self-devoted man opened a breach in the line of spears. In rushed the Swiss wedge, and the weight of the nobles' armor and length of their spears was only encumbering. They began to fall before the Swiss blows, and Duke Leopold was urged to fly. 'I had rather die honorably than live with dishonor, he said.
"Most wondrous boy, I feared that when the wedge slipt out you died; instead, my heart is filled with joy to see you live when I had thought you killed. Tell me from whence you draw your mystic power, and I will seek the place this very day. When I have found it out, I will repay you in ways more certain than I can now command." Thus spake the ogre, and Eut-le-ten replied, "'Tis easy done.
And before the patrolman could tug the combatants apart, or even wedge an arm into the fight, the exulting green-coated figure had his enemy on his back along the curb, and, reaching down into his capacious pocket, drew out two oddly shaped steel wristlets. Forcing up his captive's arm, he promptly snapped one steel wring on his own wrist, and one on the wrist of the still prostrate man.
Dewing's eye rested dreamily upon the picture, much praised of connoisseurs, framed by his window the sharp encircling contours of Cobre Mountain; the wedge of tawny desert beyond Farewell Gap. Rousing himself from such contemplation, he broke a silence, sour and unduly prolonged. "Four o'clock, and all's ill! Johnson is not the man to be cheated out of a fortune without putting up a fight.
He said that he would be ready all the sooner if they would help him to pull the big log apart, and they agreed to help him. Driving a wedge into the long split he asked them to take hold, and when they had done this he knocked out the wedge with a single blow and the twelve hands were caught tight in the closing wood.
Mascola's boats gave no heed to the signal save to draw closer together and slacken speed as they entered the narrow channel. Again the cannery boats shrieked a warning and the wedge narrowed with the waterway until only the bare width of a boat separated the beams of the defending vessels. Dead ahead, and only a few boat-lengths away, twinkled the lights of the alien fleet.
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