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The soldiers in the centre retired a little way down the roadbed, stood bunched together for a little time while their officers evidently conferred together, then left the road by twos and fours and began spreading out and pushing the other lines out still farther.

In the glaring pallor Bruce Visigoth was suddenly at her side, his felt hat bunched up in his hand and his hair wet-looking, as if drenched with perspiration. "I couldn't let you go without apologizing, Mrs. Penny." She smiled with lips that would pull to the nervous impulse to cry. "The idea!" she said, feeling the words tawdry and provincial as they came.

When the silly sheep got frightened and ran this way and that, hurting themselves and getting lost, Wylie knew exactly what to do, round on one side she would run, barking and scolding, driving them back; then round on the other, barking and scolding, driving them back, till they were all bunched together in front of the right gate. Then she drove them through as neatly as any person.

We entreated him half imperiously to bring his ship to and put us on shore in a boat. He bunched up his mouth, remarking, 'Know their grammar: habit o' speaking to grooms, eh? humph. We offered to pay largely.

"I came as soon as I'd read your letter," he said slowly examining one by one his rough fingers bunched together in his lap. "We got chuck-a-block on Second Avenue or I'd have been here before. Why didn't you let me know sooner?" As he spoke he shifted his gaze to the wrinkles in her throat a new anxiety rising as he noticed how many more had gathered since he saw her last.

"CORDTS!" Bostil leaned forward in sudden, fierce eagerness. "Yes, Cordts.... His outfit run across Creech's trail an' we bunched. I can't tell now.... But we had hell! An' Cordts is dead so's Hutch an' that other pard of his.... Bostil, they'll never haunt your sleep again!" Slone finished with a strange sternness that seemed almost bitter. Bostil raised both his huge fists.

Douglas hauled up a broken wagon seat and sat down. Prince crawled up beside him and went to sleep with his head and one paw on Doug's knee. "I suppose congress was sitting at the post-office, to-night?" said Judith. "Yes. Everybody's strong for you and Little Marion." "I don't see why I should be bunched with her. Not that I care though!"

That is all that I wanted to know." He got to his feet and strode back and forth in the little room, his brows bunched together. Conniston, seeing for the first time in this man whom he had held unendingly resourceful, indomitable, signs of a militating anxiety, felt a sudden chill at his heart. Were they, after all, playing a losing game?

The gasp he uttered from his closing throat seemed to act like the fall of a firing-pin against a shell on the bunched muscles of the animal; and she left her covert in a streak of tawny light. But Nahara's leaps had never been quite accurate since she had been wounded by Warwick's bullet, months before.

We peered out of the loophole together and through the little orchard we had planted. The moon flooded the fields, and beyond it the forest was a dark blur. I can recall the scene now, the rude mill standing by the water-side, the twisted rail fences, and the black silhouettes of the horses and cattle as they stood bunched together. Behind us little Tom stirred in his sleep and startled us.