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This one was `routed' in a twinkling, and with yells of terror followed his comrades up the bluff. The strange man looked around for the fifth. It had disappeared. Prostrate, wounded men were strewed over the ground, but the bear was nowhere to be seen. He had doubtless escaped through the snow. "I was still wondering who was the hero of the firebrand, and where he had come from.

There were several excited yells, the sound of running feet, and then more distinct cries. "He's bent on killing the officer! Run!" "Look out! Here he comes! Scoot!" "He's crazy!" Then came several more yells, a note of terror in them all. Five youngsters of the football squad were so near the gate that they broke into a run for the open.

Scarcely ten of the long hundred yards had been covered by her flying feet when a roar of angry shouts and yells warned Betty that the keen-eyed savages saw the bag of powder and now knew they had been deceived by a girl. The cracking of rifles began at a point on the bluff nearest Col. Zane's house, and extended in a half circle to the eastern end of the clearing.

The screaming and yelling savages closed round them. Fighting was useless; the natives, under cover of the numerous detached rocks, offered no mark for an aim; while the crowd of armed savages thrust them forward with wild yells to the very verge of the great precipice about five hundred feet below. Down they fell! hurled to utter destruction by the mass of Latookas pressing onward!

As to my name, that is my affair. Remember, your safety depends on me; certainly, you had better not provoke me, or " here his speech suddenly came to an end, and a fresh series of yells followed to the excited horses, which all this time were tearing along as though a troop of fiends were in pursuit.

It is only the serious discussion of evil that shocks us. There was the usual banging of doors and the usual screaming. Everybody was laughing around us. My young friend sat with rather a curious fixed smile upon his face. 'Fairly well constructed, I said to him, as the second curtain fell amid yells of delight.

Her mind was racing now with lightning speed. If they got her, they would get the Adventurer in there, too, before the police could intervene. She must hold this little landing where she lay now, hold those short, ladder-like steps that the oncoming footsteps from below there had almost reached. She fired once twice again; but high, over their heads, to check the rush. Yells answered her.

On coming to the surface, he hauled for the shore and landed. It was then eight o'clock and no one was visible. Knocking on a door a woman opened it. She saw the dark figure all glistening with water and sent forth a series of yells that caused the entire neighborhood to turn out. A German policeman approached, took Paul in charge and conducted him to a hotel near by.

He won to his feet dark, rushing forms were almost at the wall. He fired once twice fired again and turned, staggering for the car. "Jimmie! Jimmie QUICK!" Panting, gasping, he half fell into the tonneau. The car leaped forward, yells filled the air but only one thing was dominant in Jimmie Dale's reeling brain now.

They broke heads with crushing blows, and smashed ribs with trampling feet, yelling their fearsome yells which seemed the cries of death and war. But it was the triumph of a moment only, and then the Arabs save those who would fight no more rallied round their leader, a tall, stout man with a majestic presence.