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I found it out." "Thou shalt keep the faith of food and blanket," said Pierre. "What did you do with him?" "The fault was not his so much as of his race and his miserable past. I had loved him. I sent him away; and he never came back." "Thou shalt judge with the minds of twelve men, and the heart of one woman." "For the girl. There was the thing that clamped my heart.
Cleek! oh, the ghastliest, most awful, most blood-curdling smile imaginable and then, with a sort of mingled snarl and bark, it clamped its jaws together and crushed the boy's head as though it were an egg-shell!" He put up his hands and covered his eyes as if to shut out some appalling vision, and for a moment or two nothing was heard but the low sobbing of the victim's sister.
It crawled to his feet, and still he was quiet; it slid first one tentacle, and then another, over his knees and up toward his breast, and still he made no movement; then, as it rose higher rose until its hideous beaked countenance was close to his own, his hands flashed upward and clamped together like a vice clamped on a palpitating human throat and in the twinkling of an eye the tentacles were wrapped about him, and he and "The Red Crawl" were rolling over and over on the floor and battling together.
The slim, muscular body still writhed in vain contortions till he clamped it fast between knees from which not even an untamed cayuse could free itself. She gave up struggling. They glared at each other, panting from their exertions. Her eyes still flamed defiance, but back of it he read fear, a horrified and paralyzing terror.
Never, it seemed to him, had he ever wanted anything so much as he now wanted a drink of coffee. But with no water they could have no coffee. Finally Charley put the package of coffee in the coffee-pot and clamped down the lid so that the odor could reach him no longer. From time to time Lew quietly stirred the coals. Charley fried the meat in silence. Neither boy felt like talking.
Percy pulled out the slip of pasteboard and passed it over. His father thrust it into his pocket. "I can get the money on it. The agent'll take it back." "But I don't want him to take it back." "I do." The bulldog jaws clamped together. "Oh, I say, Dad! Come, now! That isn't using me right!" "Isn't using you right? Why not? Don't be a fool, Percy! Whose money bought that ticket?"
As soon as he had clamped a pale blue tractor rod upon the sixth and last of the enemy fleet, he drove a torpedo through the gaping wall and into the interior of the helpless war-vessel. There he exploded it, and the awful charge, detonated in that confined space, literally tore the globular space-ship to bits.
Jimmie Dale's jaws clamped, as his eyes narrowed on the flying thread of gray road under the dancing headlights. Well, the die was cast now! For good or bad, his response to Forrester's telephone appeal had become the vital factor in the case. For good or bad! He laughed out sharply into the night.
Behind the trunk crouched Potty Black, with a mouse clamped in her jaws. "For heaven's sake!" cried Alicia. "The cat! Sophy, what we heard was the cat!" "Let us go," said The Author. And feeling rather silly, we trailed after him. "You see," said I, "there is nothing. There never is anything."
"Just a little farther over this way, Ned. That's better. Now mark it there, and we'll have it clamped down." "But can you get enough elevation here, Tom?" "Oh, yes, I think so. Besides, I've added a few more inches to the lift of the disappearing carriage, and it will send the gun so much farther in the air. I think this will do. Where is Koku?" "Here I be, Master."
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