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Updated: June 28, 2025
Still firmly hooked to the rags of clothing a ludicrously grim joke was the huge jumping, gasping trout which Redmond had struck and lost. Suddenly Yorke uttered a low exclamation. "Burke! Burke!" he said tensely, "there you are! . . . Look at the right hand'" The eyes of all were centered on the grimy, stiffened, clawlike fist. They saw that two of the fingers were missing.
White-faced, with great black eyes flashing, the Spanish girl spoke the word that bound her and her companions in the desert. The subject was never mentioned again. Gale thought that he read a sinister purpose in Ladd's mind. To his astonishment, Lash came to him with the same fancy. After that they made certain there never was a gun within reach of Ladd's clutching, clawlike hands.
For a time he could not even speak, but at last regained sufficient composure to tell them how the thing must have swooped silently upon him from above and behind as the first premonition of danger he had received was when the long, clawlike fingers had clutched him beneath either arm.
I think it was the eyes that attracted me the most; they seemed to glow, at times, with a horribly human intelligence, and kept flickering away from my face, over the details of the room, as though my stare disturbed it. It appeared to be supporting itself by two clawlike hands upon the windowsill.
Crafty though the old fox was, the other's surprise and agitation was too genuine to be questioned. Still the pounding continued some one was kicking viciously at the door, and banging a tattoo on the panels with his fists. Old Isaac's clawlike hands doubled suddenly. "It is some drunken sot," he snarled out, "that knows no better than to come here and rouse the whole neighbourhood!
Miss Peckham, however, had read the girl's face aright. She saw that Janice knew something about the missing cat. "You tell me what you know!" she stormed, her clawlike hands shaking the top rail of the fence. "I wouldn't trust none of you young ones in this neighborhood. You are always up to some capers."
With a howl of rage and terror they dipped their paddles into the sea and flew ahead. "Be ready there," cried the doctor, as he anxiously guided the boat. Teddy Malone, Morris, Dominick, and Jabez leaned eagerly over the bows with outstretched arms and clawlike fingers.
Juist prime!" he said. Sarah Duncan stood alone in the middle of her two-roomed log cabin and lifted a bony, clawlike pair of hands, reddened by frequent immersion in hot water, cracked and chafed by exposure to cold, black-lined by constant battle with swamp-loam, calloused with burns, and stared at them wonderingly. "Pretty-lookin' things ye are!" she whispered. "But ye hae juist been kissed.
The girl fought down a physical shudder when Aunt Kate's clawlike hands seized her by both shoulders, and she stooped to kiss the visitor. "Welcome, dear Nannie," her sharp voice said, and Nan thought that, with ease, one might have heard her in the middle of the village. But when Aunt Kate's lips touched the girl's forehead they were Warm, and soft as velvet. Her breath was sweet.
He attempted at first to push his way past them, and then when one seized his arm and jerked him roughly back, Bradley swung upon the creature and with a heavy blow to the jaw felled it. Instantly pandemonium reigned. Loud wails arose, great wings opened and closed with a loud, beating noise and many clawlike hands reached forth to clutch him. Bradley struck to right and left.
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