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Harriet could only imagine, later, that he had gone in to see his mother before brushing and changing, or perhaps to avoid Nina, who with Amy catapulted down the stairway a few seconds after he went up. At all events, it was to the old lady's beautiful sitting room that Harriet was summoned a few minutes later. She knew at once that he had told his mother all he knew and feared.
Hosmer got the worst of it as he catapulted into the drift, while I alighted in a heap on his shoulders. He scrambled out of the drift on all fours, concerned only with learning whether I was badly hurt. On my assurance that unless his back and legs and arms were broken, there was no damage done, he straightened up and declared he was unhurt but dreadfully humiliated.
But in answer came a swirling patter of feet on the road, a snarl like a wolf's, a shape that catapulted through the dark. Sixty pounds of fur-swathed dynamic muscle smote athwart the shoulders of the man who was unfastening the cash pocket's pin.
A glance aloft showed him the road far above him, from which he, the horse and the roadster had catapulted; and with the sight of it there flashed to his mind the fair face of the young girl in whose service the thing had happened.
On down the incline, gathering momentum every second, the car dashed, Del Mar swaying crazily but keeping his footing. We followed as fast as we could, but it was useless. Out on the wharf it sped at a terrific pace. At the end it literally catapulted itself into the water, crashing from the end of the pier.
There came a thud and a crash as the forward part of the Hoff car struck the motorcycle a glancing blow, overturning it completely. Too terrified even to shriek, Jane felt herself being catapulted out of her seat and flung high in air. Then came a blank. Her companion did not escape so easily. The heavy machine crashed over on him and dragged him several yards.
His was a brand new one, black and shiny." Suddenly I couldn't taste my cigar at all. "Know what time to-day he left here?" I asked. "It wasn't to-day. 'Twas yestiddy. About one o'clock." As I plunged for the door I was conscious of his hoarse whisper following me, "What's Steve done, Jerry? What d'ye want him for?" I catapulted across the sidewalk and into the machine.
As though driven by the force of a thousand tornadoes the boy felt himself, catapulted out of the tube and into the cold salt water that closed around him like a great wall. His senses reeled and his brain was numbed by the terrible roaring that pounded in his ears. But he had the will to live and he began his fight. He brought his legs into play and swam upward furiously. Would he ever get there?
He lost his balance and was catapulted overboard. He landed in the water in a sitting position, wearing an absurd expression of surprise. Bela, seeing what was coming, saved herself from a like fate by throwing herself forward in the canoe. Sam's streaming head emerged from the creek with the same look of surprise on his face. The water reached to his waist.
Hippy and Tom at that instant were catapulted into the air, hurled by the gate-lever, and fell into the river below the dam with a splash. Without an instant's hesitation, Willy Horse, followed by Spike, leaped to the rescue, knowing well that only a few seconds lay between them and the cataract of logs that was about to tumble over into the Little Big Branch below the dam.
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