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Updated: May 4, 2025
Suddenly there broke into the painful hubbub on the steamer's deck a faint, heartrending cry of "A-a-ah!" In answer to it a sharp-nosed, black-bearded, well-dressed peasant muttered with a smack of his lips: "Ah! That is him shouting. What a madman he must have been! And an ugly customer too, wasn't he?"
"This is the dear child's birthday, and I wish her to have the afternoon free." "A-a-ah! Then why don't you take her out with you? You like the automobile nice enough," this sneeringly. Miss Royle tossed her head. "I thought perhaps you'd be using the car," she answered, with fine sarcasm. Jane began to argue, throwing out both hands: "How was I to know to-day was her birthday?
"You had better go straight to your room," reproved her mother. The girl promptly dodged the doorway for which she was headed, and veered around to a window, where she turned her back on them and perched herself on the arm of a chair. Mrs. Gantry sighed profoundly. "A-a-ah! Was ever a mother so tried! Such temper, such perversity! Her father, all over again!"
He moved mechanically; he knew what he was after, and he kept on. Yet he seemed largely to have lost the power to realize the danger of his position. A-a-ah! He was up there now, holding to the weathervane! His legs curled doggedly around the flagstaff.
"Hard-gaited horses, Hoddan," he said wryly. "I want a chair and a drink. I traveled a good many light-years to see you, and it wasn't necessary after all. I've been talking to your grandfather." "Glad to see you, sir," said Hoddan reservedly. His Cousin Oliver brought glasses, and the Ambassador buried his nose in his and said in satisfaction: "A-a-ah! That's good! Capable man, your grandfather.
Little O'Grady recognised the red face, the broad shoulders, the thick neck, the heavy hand; he still felt those fingers in his collar, that palm against his ear. "A-a-ah!" he emitted in a long sibilant cry of repressed rage. "Stay where you are a minute," he said to Prochnow, and slipped away.
On the verandah he paused sharply, whirling about with the swiftness of a tiger. Ramos, the Mexican, had come galloping out of the jungle, flogging his horse as he came. "Well?" Garman's attitude, suggested the crouch of a tiger ready to spring. "Si! Yes; it is so!" "They've got him?" "Yes. He is on Palm Island, surrounded; not caught." "A-a-ah!"
She lifted eager, shining eyes. "Moth-er," she half-whispered, "does the Doctor mean Johnnie Blake's?" The Doctor assented energetically. "I prescribe Johnnie Blake's," he declared. "A-a-ah!" It was a deep breath of happiness. "I promised Johnnie that I'd come back!" "But if my little daughter isn't strong " Her father gave a sidewise glance at the steaming bowl on the tray.
The men, propped up or lying down, gave the three cheers with a will, and then three more; and then, delighted with their performance, three more after that, Jim winding up the whole with an "a-a-ah, Tiger!" that made them all laugh; then relapsing into silence and a hard battle with pain.
The second lieutenant, who was acting as officer of the watch, being an easy-going sort of chap and rather sleepy from being up pacing to and fro on the bridge since midnight, did not pay much attention to this intelligence. "All right, lookout-man," he hailed back, after a portentous yawn. "It's probably the morning breeze blowing the fog off the land that you see. Tell me, a-a-ah!
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