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Ye see, gents, to do any good on my lay, a man must train his senses as well as his mind: he must have a hare's ear, and a hawk's eye, a bloodhound's nose, and a lady's hand with steel fingers and a silk skin.
The bones of his big frame were still a deal too prominent, and he carried more than even the bloodhound's proper share of loose, rolling skin.
But perhaps because they were suffused with irritation the words had no sooner left her lips than she regretted them. "I won't have it." Bernard's heavy jaw was clenched like a bloodhound's. "It's not decent running after Hyde while I'm tied here by the leg. I won't have you set all the village talking. There's the Times on my table. Stop. Where are you going?" "To ring the bell.
Spotted Dog had lost part of an ear, and the same knife had seamed his flabby jowl into the likeness of a bloodhound's cheek; his deeply-pitted visage completed the ensemble, and no other name would have fitted him as well. "Bravo, old cutthroat! Let her play queens an' fairies, if she wants to. Here's for th' jolly grog, lads. Hey, Stumpy, start a cheer for th' pretty wench!"
It was not to be denied, however, that he had barked; and the strange sound it was part bark, part growl, and in part a bloodhound's bay brought Finn from the near-by orchard, and Betty Murdoch from the morning-room, and the Master from his study, and the Persian cat from her perch on the hall mantelshelf; so Master Black-and-Gray had no lack of audience, and, indeed, received an almost embarrassing amount of congratulation, in the course of which he made shift to get a good sniff at Desdemona's legs and satisfy himself that she was art inoffensive person.
"Now, my lads, who says next?" cried the drunken ruffian. But before the words were out of his mouth there was a growl, a plunge, a snarl, and he was full length on the street with the bloodhound's muzzle at his throat. The crowd shrieked and began to fly. Only one person seemed to remain. It was an elderly woman, with dry and straggling gray hair.
Ah, will she flee back? Like wolves, her pursuers howl loud on their track; She lifteth to Heaven one look of despair Her anguish breaks forth in one hurried prayer Hark! her jailor's yell! like a bloodhound's bay On the low night wind it sweeps! Now, death or the chain! to the stream she turns, And she leaps! O God, she leaps!
"Yes, sir," said Martha, who eyed the panting beast timidly and showed an evident desire to shut the door as soon as possible. The squire felt more nervous than ever as he walked slowly along the road in the direction of the village, his hand still on the bloodhound's collar.
The bloodhound's distant baying suddenly ceased. John thought he heard a fainter cry, inarticulate, and full of distress, through the sighing wind. Then there was silence again. Mrs. Goddard leaned back against the wicket gate, and Nellie, startled by the noises, pressed close to her mother's side. "Why he has gone up the park!" exclaimed John in great surprise. "He was calling to his dog "
I felt very much relieved at the turn events had taken. The Indian had escaped, the means of the bloodhound's death was not suspected, and the officers would probably at early dawn continue their search after the fugitive. "Ask them if they wish to return to the vault; for if not, I will take the keys up to my father," I whispered to Jose. "No, no," answered the men.
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