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"I have arrived at last," she whispered triumphantly to herself as she went to bed that night, and lay awake a long time in the darkness, thinking of the cheers that had rocked the Craft House and of the flattering attention with which Miss Amesbury had regarded her all evening. Agony awoke the next morning to find herself famous beyond her fondest dreams.
When we two stood inside of the little round tower, old Maiden's Heart planted himself before us in the passage, and waited to hear what we had to say. But we couldn't think of anything to say. Directly, however, I thought I must do something, so I whispered to the Indian: "Does the sentry ever come up here?" He seemed to catch my meaning. "I go watch," he said. "Come back. Tell you."
The Indians were still in the same place, eagerly talking a score or more of feet below the boy. "It's too good a chance to miss!" whispered Floyd desperately. "I wonder if I can't find some sort of a lever and pry it loose." He looked about him. Not far away was part of a dead tree branch, thick as his arm. "Just what I need!" he exclaimed.
Later on, in the course and play of thought, some word by chance occurs having the same initial letters or some other resemblance to the word which is sought; then the sentinel springs forward and supplies what is wanting to make up the word, seizes it, and suddenly brings it up in triumph, without my knowing where and how he got it; so it seems as if some one had whispered it to me.
I walked to Raissa and stood just before her. "Raissa," I cried, "what is the matter?" She made no answer: it was as if she had not heard me. Her face was no paler, nor in any way different, except that it had a stony look and an expression of slight fatigue. "She is cross too," Latkin whispered to me. I took Raissa by the hand. "David is alive." I cried louder than before "alive and unhurt.
At the very feet of Red Perris he plunged into the sand. Once more he whirled to regain his lost footing, but as he turned on his back the rope twisted and whispered above him; the off hind leg was noosed, and then the near one Alcatraz lay on his side straining and snorting but utterly helpless. Of a sudden he ceased all struggle.
It was not possible for him to think or be like pure white people, to do as they did. He was a child of the kopje, the spruit, and the dun veld, where men dwelt with weird beings which were not men presences that whispered, telling them of things to come, blowing the warnings of Destiny across the waste, over thousands and thousands of miles.
I know you, and I love you." She leaned closer to him. "Dear," she whispered impulsively, "I am going to tell you everything who I am, and about the papers " "Wait!" He held his hand before her mouth. "Don't tell me now. Do as you planned to do. Be simply 'Girl' to me for a while longer." She moved closer to him.
So I this night am joyful, Though I can scarce tell why, It seemeth me that glory Hath met us very nigh; And we, though poor and humble, Have part in heavenly plan, For, born tonight, the Prince of Peace Shall rule the heart of man. Justin's heart melted within him like wax to the woman's vision and the woman's touch. "Oh, Nancy, Nancy!" he whispered.
The wind seemed to take up the burden of the sad refrain, and whispered it shudderingly to the tall trees that shook their trembling branches beneath its blast. I wonder did it penetrate into the crime-stained heart of him who had laid this harmless old man low? Was it even now ringing in his ears?
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