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Updated: May 7, 2025
"Won't be much play about it, I'm thinking," grunted Pete. The engine bell clanged, a hoarse shriek came from her whistle, and the wheels began to revolve. Ralph was at the throttle, while Bill Whiting was up ahead to throw the switch. "Good luck!" he cried, waving his hand as the locomotive swept by and rolled out upon the main line.
Wheels squeaked as ropes ran through tackle, iron chains clanged; there was a continuous roaring of orders, here, there, and everywhere; and at last, when the time for going out of dock arrived, the deck was piled up in all directions with cargo and luggage, and every vacant place was occupied by passengers, their friends, dock people, and crew.
The sword smote upon the buckler as on an anvil. The earth shuddered beneath the weight of the fighting men, and the valley rang and clanged like a smithy with the tumult. Here a host rushed furiously against a legion which met it with unbroken front. There a great company of horsemen crashed with spears upon a company as valiant as itself.
Comstock stepped to the back door and clanged the dinner bell sharply, paused a second, and rang again. In a short time Philip and Elnora ran down the path. "Are you ill, mother?" cried Elnora. Mrs. Comstock indicated the boy. "There is an important message for Philip," she said. He muttered an excuse and tore open the telegram. His colour faded slightly. "I have to take the first train," he said.
On that memorable night of the Cable Celebration, when so many paper lanterns and so many enlightened New Yorkers were sold in the name of De Sauty, when all the streets and all the people were alive with gas, when we fired off rockets and Roman candles and spread-eagle speeches in illustrious exuberance, when the city children lit their little dips, and the City Fathers lit their City Hall, when we hung out our banners, and clanged our bells, and banged our guns, when there was Glory to God in the highest steeple, and Peace on Earth in the lowest cellar, I drifted down the Broadway current of a mighty flood of folk, a morose and miserable sentimentalist.
The train slowed down and went through several stations crowded with people on their way to work, ordinary people in varied clothes with only here and there a blue or khaki uniform. Then there was more dark-grey wall, and the obscurity of wide bridges under which dusty oil lamps burned orange and red, making a gleam on the wet wall above them, and where the wheels clanged loudly.
"There is some gear of yours," said he, as it clanged and rattled on the floor. "What do you mean, man?" "Only that my master bid me say that he cares as little for his own life as you do." And he turned away. She caught him by the arm: "What is the meaning of this? What is in this mail?" "You should know best.
So your Freddie just pulled the rope, clanged the bell, and then he cried 'Fire! as loudly as he could. Some one else took up the cry, and, there you are!" "And so you rang the bell, did you, Freddie, because you wanted to see a fire?" asked the father of the little fellow. "Yes," answered Flossie's brother.
He slashed with the tip of his blade against the descending sword-arm of his opponent a short, quick flick of his wrist that sheared through the inside of the wrist, severing tendons, muscles, veins and arteries as it cut to the bone. The sword clanged harmlessly off the commander's shoulder. A quick thrust, and the third man died.
And why should it not have been? News of the wreck had come to the house like a sudden alarm leaping up in the night; the keys, which I held with greedy fingers, might they not have been in Czerny's hands when the bell clanged loudly through the startled corridors?
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