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"I'd rather stay up the air's better, and you can see so much farther," said Laurence. And he added hospitably: "There's plenty of room come on up, yourself!" "With one leg?" sarcastically. "And two eyes," said the boy. "Come on up the sky's fine!" And he laughed into the half-suspicious face.
Out in space, free of the atmosphere, Arcot shot out to the point where the Thessians were congregating. The shining dots of their ships and the discs of the forts were visible from Earth save for the air's distortion. They seemed a miniature Milky Way, their deadly beams concentrated on Earth. Then the Thessians discovered that the terrestrial fleet was in action.
In those early days of slow transportation and isolated communities, local patriotism was much stronger than it is now. And something about the air's wine of the Pacific slope has always, and probably will always, make of every man an earnest proselyte for whatever patch of soil he calls home.
It is to be remarked that being at Bothwell Bridge and Air's Moss were among the crimes stated in the indictment of all the three, though, when the last of these affairs happened, one of the girls was only thirteen, and the other not eight years of age. At the time of the Bothwell Bridge business, they were still younger.
"We're going to get a wettin'," said the man to Jim. "The air's already damp on my face. Thar, do you hear that thunder growlin' in the southwest? Tremenjously like cannon far away, but it's thunder all the same." "What do we care 'bout a wettin', Jim?
"Why, the air's so fine that you can walk ever so far without feeling tired. Breakfast at the ranch was at seven, and once, I walked twenty miles just to get up an appetite for it." "That's nothing," John snapped moodily. "I walked thirty miles before breakfast, once, too. It was right here in the city." "What?" gasped Sid, scarcely believing his ears. "Yes," assented John cheerfully.
Just an hour later, when Mr. Job had returned to shore in the devil's own temper to call a hasty meeting of his shareholders and Captain Hewitt along with him, with his tail between his Legs Captain Cornelisz raised the trap of the lazarette. "I'm thinking a little fresh air's no more than you deserve," said he. "But where are we, in this world?" asked Jacka.
Nan was leaning back on her elbow on the blanket Stuart had spread for her, watching his face change its mood with each flying cloud. "Our luck is wonderful to-day, Nan," he said at last. "The guides say this is one of the rarest days a traveller ever finds on this peak. We might come a hundred times and never strike it again." "Why?" she asked lazily. "The air's so crisp and clear.
I had been sound asleep. A guard came in with water and a pot of stewed beef and potatoes. "Thet air's all right," said D'ri, dipping into it with a spoon. We ate with a fine relish, the guard, a sullen, silent man with a rough voice that came out of a bristling mustache, standing by the door. "Luk a-here," said D'ri to the guard as we finished eating, "I want t' ast you a question.
"Comes alwus where folks hev been drownded," said D'ri. "Thet air's what I've hearn tell." It was, indeed, the accepted theory of the fishermen, albeit many saw in the boogy light a warning to mark the place of forgotten murder, and bore away. The sun came up in a clear sky, and soon, far and wide, its light was tossing in the rippletops. We could see them glowing miles away.
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