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Lights were now flashing near. I could see little hope for us, and D'ri, I thought, had gone crazy. He ran at the oncomers, yelling, "Hey, Rube!" at the top of his lungs. I lay low in the brush a moment. They rushed by me, D'ri in the fore with fending sabre. A tawny hound was running in the lead, his nose down, baying loudly.
We are undone! Pirates! They will kill us all! Mu! mu! don't let them murder me!" A moment longer and Cornelia, in her rising contempt, would have spurned him with her foot. There were more feet on the stairway. Glaring torches were tossing over gold inlaid armour. A man of unusual height and physique strode at the head of the oncomers, clutching and dragging by the wrist a quivering slave-boy.
Von Rittenheim put his foot on the topmost bar and leaned his elbow on his uplifted knee. By his position Sydney was screened entirely from the oncomers. "I seem to have a gr-reat deal to say to-night. Now I shall tell you a little stor-ry." His tone was gay, but Sydney saw that his eyes were grave. "Does it begin 'Once upon a time'?" she fenced. "Ja.
A little knot of people had formed, constantly increasing by oncomers like myself and friend Jenks who had lumbered behind me.
He left his trenches shouting, "Vive la France! En avant! Aux armes, mes citoyens! A bas le Boche!" "Attention! Are you ready? Fire!" commanded our General. Bing! bang! a veritable tornado of over-ripe tomatoes deluged the astonished oncomers, who hesitated an instant and then fell back.
He had watched but had not joined in the struggle. Now, Wonkin and the two men at arms were there and so was Allan. "Will you, good men, try out your bows on these hinds who are coming thitherward?" said Sir Percival. Straightway then there flew three well aimed arrows. Then others flew and now answering arrows from the oncomers.
There came the wild shouts of a new party to the controversy, and the pounding of the feet of many horses from down the road to Bou Saada. The Arabs did not wait to learn the identity of the oncomers. With a parting volley as they dashed by the position which Tarzan and Abdul were holding, they plunged off along the road toward Sidi Aissa. A moment later Kadour ben Saden and his men dashed up.
But one there was who from his place of vantage halfway up the steps repelled all oncomers, and assisted by a second youth of large proportions seized upon Joel and setting him upon their shoulders bore him off in triumph. "Boom! Boom!" said the big drum. And the procession started.
They have tried their hand in other parts, and always with failure. Now it is the turn of Verdun a salient like that at Ypres, and one which must be held against all oncomers. You ask the fortunes of our other troops.
The man likewise recognized Emerson, and pointed him out, crying something unintelligible in the tumult, then leaped down from his vantage-point. The next instant Boyd saw him approaching, followed by several others. He endeavored to hustle Clyde to the big doors ahead of the oncomers, but being intercepted, backed against the shed wall barely in time to beat off the foremost.
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