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It was not the heat which had brought those fine beads of moisture to his brow, white above the line of brown, and drawn such a pale ring about his mouth. McLean saw that the slim, wiry wrists which supported the case's top were shaking. "Gently now," he murmured and the lid was lifted and laid aside. The same dark, unstirring form of the tomb scene.
The corsage, which fitted loosely except at the waist and the shoulders, where it was closely confined, was not too low, but it disclosed the beautiful diminutive rondures above the armpits, and, behind, the fine hollow of her back. The sleeves were long and full with tight wrists, ending in black lace.
He had gripped one of her wrists until she cried out in pain and he released it. "But the sight must have given me a man's strength, for my struggles became so troublesome that one of them I have always been grateful for it clubbed his musket and dealt me a blow that left me senseless. It was dark when I came to, but I lay there until morning, unable to do more than crawl.
Sergeant McBain rapped out his formula without regard for the letter of it. Then, while one of the troopers placed handcuffs upon the prisoner's wrists, he turned to those at the canoe. "How many kegs?" he demanded. For a moment there was no reply. Holy Dick sniggered. McBain glared furiously, and his impatience rose. "How many?" he cried again, more sharply.
Round the wrists and above the elbows, armlets of silver, gold, glass, horn or ivory are worn, according to the ability of the wearer to purchase them, and on the ankles they have silver, brass, copper or iron shackles. A pair of silver ones were seen, which weighed one hundred and twenty-eight ounces, but these ponderous ornaments produce a callous lump on the leg, and entirely deform the ankle.
Finch, and you'll never draw a revolver on me," rapped in Cleek, giving him a backward push that carried him to the floor, and in the twinkling of an eye he had pounced upon him like a cat and was saying, as he snapped the handcuffs upon his wrists: "Got you, you brute-beast; got you tight and fast! Do you remember Hamilton, the medical student, in New Zealand, eight years ago? Do you?
Heretofore the Indians had taken the precaution to bind him at night, although not very securely; but, on that evening, he remonstrated with them on the subject, and complained so strongly of the pain which the cords gave him, that they merely wrapped the buffalo tug loosely around his wrists, and having tied it in an easy knot, and attached the extremities of the rope to their own bodies in order to prevent his moving without awakening them, they very composedly went to sleep, leaving the prisoner to follow their example or not, as he pleased.
It had never occurred to the unfortunate girl that any suspicion could fall upon her. Three more policemen had arrived. "Every one in this house is arrested," announced the first policeman. "Put out your hands," he ordered Asako. Rusty handcuffs were slipped over her delicate wrists.
His wife is in San Diego now, with her own people." "Yes, he told me that," Julia said, only longing to escape before a maddening impulse to cry overpowered her. Barbara saw the truth, and laid a friendly hand on Julia's arm. "I just wanted you to know," she said in her kindliest tone. Suddenly Julia burst out crying, childishly blubbering with her wrists in her eyes.
He was ridiculing her dress, perhaps making sport of the way her curls were arranged. She thrust one hand upward and tumbled the mass of hair into disorder. "Yer woman put these togs onto me," she said, "and I feel like an old guy dressed up this way!" Anger forced tears into her eyes, and her two small brown hands clenched under the hanging lace at her wrists.
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