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He liked to hear the squeak of the belting and the steady chug-chug of the water-wheels; the purr of the dynamos was music, and he kept the commutators free from dust with loving care. But these moments alone in the power-house were high-lights in a world of shadows.
Reaching in he moved a bracket, and a section of the side of the wagon slid back, letting light into the vehicle. Frank noticed a sort of a bench, a lathe, and some small pieces of machinery. Ned Foreman got up the steps and touched something. There was a click and a spark of light. He pulled a wheel around and then there was a chug-chug- chug. "Now, what's that?" asked the curious Frank.
To these melancholy mutterings, the liner, insouciant, and not caring a peg for any philosophy save that of the open road shouldered along through jewel-green waves, and remarked, "Chug-chug, chug-chug!" Mr. Payne was inclined to quarrel with the Tent-Maker on one score only. He did not think that he was to-day what he was yesterday. Yesterday figuratively speaking he had hope.
The moon was full, and the frost that clung to the trees and bushes sparkled like flakes of silver. The aurora faintly searched the northern sky. A rabbit, white and spectre-like, scurried across the half-breed's path, but he did not notice it. Hour after hour his never tiring feet swung the wide snow-shoes in and out with a rhythmic chug-chug as he ran on.
If it rises much higher it will flood the fire-boxes, and then all will be over, for there is not one boat left on the ship all were landed on the now invisible floe. But just as all hope was lost there came a faint hissing of steam, the pumps began slowly moving, and then settled down into their monotonous "chug-chug," the sweetest sound, that day, those desperate mariners had ever heard.
"Get him and break chug-chug machine!" suggested Koku. "What do you suppose he's up to, Tom?" asked Ned. "Andy Foger speeding along at this hour of the morning," remarked Mr. Whitford. "There must be something in the wind." "Get a moving picture of him," urged Mr. Period. "I might be able to use that." "I hardly think it would be worth while," decided Tom.
It was when at last she almost felt the little form slipping from her grasp that she heard the chug-chug of a motor boat and a cheery, loud voice sang out, "Hang on, Dolly; hang on! All right, we're coming!" Dolly didn't dare look up, but with her last ounce of strength she hung on to the baby's white dress, which she had already torn to ribbons in her clutches.
"Ah, what shall we do to pass the time?" she interrupted, with mocking coquetry. "Chug-chug, chug-chug!" It was the liner. "Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears To-day of past Regret and future Fears " This was Omar, but Miss Curtis would not listen. "I've an aversion to your eloquent old heathen," she pleaded. "You must not quote him, really." "If you insist, I'll refrain.
She heard Kit's assurance that help was near and for a second she felt faint again and giddy. Even when she could hear the chug-chug of the motor, she realized that it was not going to be an easy job to be transferred from the canoe. There was still greater danger ahead than anything they had yet experienced. The approach of the launch in the rough sea would almost surely upset the canoe.
Half unconsciously she heard the approaching chug-chug of an engine mingling with the sound of voices singing lustily the hilarious chorus of a crew of roysterers who had been celebrating not wisely but too well. ... It all happened with appalling suddenness.
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