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Updated: May 22, 2025
With unerring judgment he read it in the very carriage of the big-shouldered boy before him, who for the first time in his life failed to uncover his head, with a due amount of reverence, in the presence of the town's great man.
Loosening the thong that bound his so'wester to his chin, he slapped it twice across a chair back, the water flying in every direction, and then faced the room. "Mr. Bonner." "Yes, sir," answered the big-shouldered Texan, rising to his feet.
The Master led the way toward this median corridor. His tall, big-shouldered figure swung along, triumphant, impressive in the long coat, dominant and free. Followed by the other three, he turned to the left, forward of the ship. The main corridor, like the other, was flanked by doors. Two or three stood open, giving glimpses of comfortable staterooms.
He contrasted that big-shouldered, song-singing fellow who had given them of his endless store of courage when their own was spent, compelling them to go through the mush ice at Five Fingers, and the drift ice at Fort Selkirk, and had landed them safely at Dawson almost against their will, the last boat through before the Klondike froze up, with this secretive hang-dog individual who slunk through an unpeopled wilderness, twisting his neck from side to side, as though he already felt the halter there like a Seven Dials assassin, fearful of arrest.
Then he stated: "You're him, all right!" "Am I?" said Terry, regarding this unusual visitor with increasing suspicion. "But I'm afraid you have me at a disadvantage." The big-shouldered man raised a stubby hand. He had an air of one who deprecates, and at the same time lets another into a secret.
She tried again and this time her voice rang clear through the room. "Denny," she cried, "Denny, I've come to you! Strike a light! I'm here, Denny, and oh, I'm afraid afraid of the dark!" Before he could rise, almost before his big-shouldered body whirled in the chair toward her, her swift rush carried her across to him. She knelt at his knees, her thin arms clutching him with desperate strength.
And all his skepticism was shot through and through with hate a deadly, patient sort of hatred for someone which was as easy to see as it was hard for the big-shouldered boy to understand. There was craft in the ex-lightweight's bearing a gentleness almost stealthy when he leaned forward a little, as if he feared that the first abrupt move or word on his part would frighten away that timid hope.
The two were setting out on a long night drive through the forest to spend Christmas with their family, on the edge of the lonely little settlement of Brine's Brook. When all was ready, the big-shouldered woodsman slipped into the seat beside his son, pulled the blankets and the bearskin all about him, and picked up the reins from the square dashboard.
As his cowboy had said, they resembled a wolf's but were unusually large. As Howard noted for himself, the front feet had made the larger, deeper imprint; the hind tracks were narrower, longer, less clearly defined. 'It carries the bulk of its weight up forward, he said thoughtfully. 'It would be heavy-chested, big-shouldered, slim in the barrel and small in the hips.
Then suddenly he got up again, and strode to one of the westward-looking windows. The light was almost wholly gone, now. The man's figure, big-shouldered, compact, well-knit, appeared only as a dim silhouette against the faded blur in the west; a blur smoky and streaked with dull smudges as of old, dried blood. Far below, stretching away, away, shimmered the city's million inconsequential lights.
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