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Looking in he saw only darkness. Then suddenly he gave a soft call, the call of an Irish bird-note which all people in Ireland in the west and south of Ireland know. If Sheila was alive and in the place she would answer it, he was sure. He waited a moment, and there was no answer.
She hesitated, and the man, invisible in the shadow, once more imitated the bird-note, but this time it was so low and soft that it seemed the voice of a whispering whippoorwill. Then, with a sudden glad little cry, she came running with her old fleet grace down to the road. Samson had vaulted the stile, and stood in the full moonlight.
The cries of their pursuers having died away behind them, there was now nothing but the soft thud of their own footfalls to relieve the anxious intentness of their ears. Not a bird-note, not the flutter of a wing, not the hum or the darting of a single insect, disturbed the strangely heavy air. No snake or lizard or squeaking mouse scurried among the fallen leaves.
He has a reindeer range up beyond the Endicott Mountains and is always seeking the last frontier." "He must be very brave." "Alaska breeds heroic men, Miss Standish." "And honorable men men you can trust and believe in?" "Yes." "It is odd," she said, with a trembling little laugh that was like a bird-note in her throat.
But afterwards, as he watched her drift away through the darkness calling back to him from time to time until her voice dwindled to a bird-note and then faded away, Red Jim prayed in his heart of hearts that he would not chance upon sight of the stallion in the morning, for if he did, he knew that the first solemn promise of his life would be broken.
Once when he had described the avowal of his love for Anne, Princess of Eboli, when a burst of sobs from her had come to interrupt him; again when a curious bird-note had rung out upon the gathering dusk. Then he stopped to listen. "Curious that," he had said "an eagle's cry. I have not heard it these many months, not since I left the hills of Aragon." Thereafter he had continued to the end.
There reigned in the woods that intense stillness which precedes dawn an almost painful tension resembling apprehension. Always the first faint bird-note breaks it; then silence ends like a deep sigh exhaling and death seems very far away. Now above them the stars had grown very dim; and presently some faded out. And after a little while a small mountain bird twittered sleepily.
Angé by the end of the following day, particularly if he got a "lift," which was not impossible. Just then, for the morning was beginning to show through the gaunt trees, a bird-note sounded. Billy rose quickly there was no time to waste. Sometimes a bird sounded that warning when a storm was near. It would never do for him to face a storm so far from shelter. All that day Billy trudged on.
The air was soft, and perfumed with scent from the roses in the side-alleys below. A monotonous bird-note came from the ilex darkness, like the note of a thin passing bell. It was the cry of a small owl, which, in its plaintiveness and changelessness, had often seemed to Manisty and Eleanor the very voice of the Roman night. Suddenly Mrs.
She stepped along under the trees with great deliberation, holding up the inflexible mohair skirt as if it could tear on brambles or in gales, and looking around quickly and ardently at the sound of a bird-note or the glance of a squirrel-leap; her great eyes peering for a moment from their widely opened lids, and then disappearing utterly again under those white veils.
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