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With incessant weariness he rocked back and forth, back and forth in the big Boston rocker; while Allis, at a little table in a corner of the room, sought to compose the letter she wished to send home. With apathetic indifference the girl heard a constrained knock at the cottage door; she barely looked up as Dixon opened to a visitor. It was Crane who entered.
The "Bacchus," which is now in the National Museum at Florence, added to his reputation; and the little world of art, whose orbit was the Vatican, anxiously awaited a more serious attempt, just as we crane our necks when the great violinist about to play awakens expectation by a few preliminary flourishes. His first great work at Rome was the "Pieta."
It must have been preconcerted." "Ha! true. But she has not been suffered to speak to a soul not in the company, Mrs. Crane excepted." "Perhaps at the performance last night some signal was given?" "But if Waife had been there I should have seen him; my troupe would have known him: such a remarkable face; one eye too." "Well, well, do what you think best.
Admiral Crane cannot possibly be so far to the southeast with his squadron, for the latest news from our outposts led us to believe that he intended to attack us from the west." "But he may be going to surprise Magdalen Bay, Admiral," said Captain Farlow. "Perhaps," replied the Admiral, rather sharply, "but will you tell me what for?
Crane tells me that Redpath didn't ride Lucretia out in the Handicap, and whether he rides the mare or Lauzanne it seems all one we'll get beat anyway." "Another boy will have the mount on Lauzanne," Allis answered. "What difference will that make? You can't trust him." "You can trust this boy, father, as you might your own son, Alan." "I don't know about that.
Somewhere above my head a whistling owl, one of those lovable little feathered cavaliers that showers his mate with unstinted adulation, fluttered and courted. Later the mournful call of a whooping crane floated across the prairie.
"We'll grab some of this while the grabbing's good," announced Seaton, and the few visible lumps were rolled into the car. "If we had a pickaxe we could chop some more off one of those sharp ledges down there." "There's an axe in the shop," replied DuQuesne. "I'll go get it. Go ahead, I'll soon be with you." "Keep close together," warned Crane as the four moved slowly down the slope.
"I hear you had an offer of five thousand for your filly, Mr. Porter," half queried Crane. "I did, and I refused it." "And here's the one that'll beat her to-day, an' I'll sell him for half that," asserted the Trainer, putting his hand on Lauzanne's neck.
"This is no time or place to be discussing regimental matters," said he; "but since the matter has come to it, I mean to give what I believe to be the general opinion as opposed to that of a limited few. Crane, Wilkins, you are the only men I have heard express any doubts as to Truscott's coming, or Ray's, for that matter.
"Both you girls are all to the good the right kind to have along in ticklish places." Crane held out his steady hand and took Margaret's in a warm clasp. "For a girl in your weakened condition you were wonderful. You have no reason to reproach yourself." Tears filled the dark eyes, but were held back bravely as she held her head erect and returned the pressure of his hand.
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