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He took the fragment he had been examining in both his hands and held it close before his eyes. Then he made a minute search of it with his little magnifying glass. Then he fell upon his knees, and, with his clawlike fingers, scraped more earth from the rock whence he had chipped it.
"Here," said the girl, "is a payment on account. When I know that you delivered the message in time you shall have as much more. Will you do it?" "I will try," said the Indian, and stretched forth a clawlike hand for the money. "Good!" exclaimed Barbara. "Now start at once," and she dropped the silver coins into the old man's palm.
Boyle leaned against the torrent of abuse and swallowed it, his face losing its fiery hue, blanching and fading as if every word fell on his senses like the blow of a whip to the back. The Governor's son watched every muscle of Shanklin's face as if to read the gambler's intention in his eye, while his hand, stiff-set and clawlike, hovered within three inches of his pistol-butt.
He thought he heard a dull thud in the cellar beneath. He hurried to the staircase, and tottered down. Ben had come upon a tin quart-measure partly filled with gold coins, and was stooping over, transferring them to his pocket. With a hoarse cry like that of an animal deprived of its young, his uncle sprang upon him, and fastened his clawlike nails in the face of his burly nephew.
So, if Simon will let me have threepenny worth of candles, and some bread and meat no matter what I'll be off, for I should like to get there before dusk." Nodding gloomily, Simon rose and went out, whereupon the Ancient leaned over and laid a yellow, clawlike hand upon my arm.
In fact he was only curious to see how far a Kashmiri beggar's audacity would carry him. Within half a dozen paces of them, in the full moonlight, the shambling figure halted and salaamed with clawlike hands extended. His deformity bent him almost double, but he was so muffled in rags that it was difficult to discern any tangible human shape at all.
He was threatening she attempting to reason with him, for it was quite evident that she saw that he was past her authority. The brute was quite close now creeping with clawlike hands extended toward her around the end of the altar. Tarzan strained at the bonds which held his arms pinioned behind him.
Manning settled farther back in his chair. One of his gnarled old hands fastened of a sudden upon the arm tightly. "While the money lasted, yes." "Money! Did they sell the ranch?" "Mortgaged it, Craig did, until he couldn't get another cent." "And then " "It's the old story." "They went to pieces?" "Craig left her for another woman." The clawlike hands closed tighter and tighter.
I've seen it before. Talk quick, now!" "You savvee dat fella got creese? All right. I send um knife, eh? Big fella man give it knife to me. You no bodder, Tuuan. You no kill, eh? Give it knife. I want um." The clawlike hand reached down insistently. "I tell you no bodder. I Gordon man. Gordon he Houten man. You Houten man too, eh? An' Houten he all right fine fella. You no 'fraid, Tuuan.
Night after night the skies opened and let down steady torrents, which turned all that country into one great bog of slime. Those little rivers or "beeks," which ran between the knobby fingers of the clawlike range of ridges, were blown out of their channels and slopped over into broad swamps.
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