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But at length the grave was finished, and they then threw some dry leaves into it, and, setting fire to them, while the blaze was rising up, everyone present struck repeatedly a bundle of spears with the mearu which they held with the butts downwards, making a rattling noise. BURIAL AT KING GEORGE's SOUND.
"This heah's yo' chamber," he said, and preceding his companion into the room, placed the candle on a chair. "Well I low I clean forgot something!" cried Hannibal. "If it's yo' bundle and yo' gun, I done fotched 'em up heah and laid 'em on yo' bed," said Eph, preparing' to withdraw.
Then the Frenchmen began coming out, with the Annamites and the Indians, each man with a bundle on his back, and the Cossack, esteeming his watch ended, got up and stepped back. Once again, like bloodhounds, the crowd rushed in, an endless stream of men, women, and even children, all summoned by the news that the pawn-shop, which was their natural enemy, had fallen.
A bundle of papers it was now too dim to see lay beside him clammy with the dew, and he sat bare-headed, a pipe which had gone out in his hand, staring across the prairie with an ironical smile in his eyes. He had planned boldly and striven tirelessly, and now the fee he could not take would surely be tendered him.
I now began to entertain some serious fears, and made a communication to the Police, which caused that bundle to be 'To be fished up, interrupted Slyme. 'Be alive, Mr Nadgett. 'It contained the dress I had seen him wear, said Nadgett; 'stained with clay, and spotted with blood. Information of the murder was received in town last night.
The adjutant-general, a bundle of papers in his hand, was hastily crossing the hall toward his own office. Loring raised his hat in grave salutation to his commander, who bowed with dignified reserve in return, and moment later the Engineer was facing the colonel at his desk. "Colonel Strain," said he, "I have much to do. Will you name the hour at which I am to meet my relief?" "Mr.
"You know we went to Lady Franklin bay after papers." "And they think the mountaineers stole this package?" asked Oliver. "Tell us what it was that was taken first!" insisted Frank. "I'm beginning to see a front-page story in this, right now!" "The package stolen," Ned went on, with a smile, "was more precious than any bundle of papers could be!
"Where's your bundle?" he asked in his usual masterful manner. And her reply came in a tone of almost heart-broken submission. "In there," she said, with a glance at the inner room. The man gave her no time to add anything more. He felt the ground he was treading was more than shaky.
And here I encountered a veritable foot-pad, with a club in his hand and a bundle on his shoulder, coming down the dusty road, with the wild-eyed aspect of one who travels into a far country in search of adventure. He seemed to be of a cheerful and sociable turn, and desired that I should linger and converse with him.
The bundle was large; he was visibly reluctant to take it; and wished very much that I should send for it. This, however, was impossible; and he subdued his pride; but when I asked him to take back an empty bottle which belonged to the store, he, with a mortified look, begged me to do it up neatly in a paper, that it might look like a small package.
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