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Her hand touched the lock carelessly and drew back as if her finger had been burned. She put her hands behind her and crossed the room. "I won't be so weak and silly!" she cried fiercely. She heard Jim cranking the car. It would take him five minutes more to start it, get it under the shed and bring in the suit-case and robes. "Why shouldn't I see it!" she exclaimed. "He has told me about it."
Perhaps he's heard the two shots, and me cranking up." Not daring to call Amaryllis, he trusted her precise obedience to his orders, and sank, almost as swiftly as Pépe into the landscape.
We must get away from here quick!" He was at the bonnet cranking up the car. But the engine, chilled by the cold air, refused to start. As he was straining at the handle, a man dashed suddenly into the yard by the office door. It was Jeekes. The little secretary was a changed man. He still wore his pince-nez. But his mild air had utterly forsaken him.
Nothing moved, except by the natural motion of the wind. The people crouched among the trees, so still that Kieran would not have seen them if he had not known they were there. The patrol craft roared past, cranking up speed as it went. Webber grinned. "They'll be a couple of hours at least, overhauling and examining the flitter.
He groped for his dagger when he saw the stranger, but before it was clear of the scabbard Jason was on him and after a few quick Pyrran infighting blows the man lost all interest in what was happening and slid to the floor. Jason straddled his body, picked the stick up, nodded to the slave who began cranking faster, and began to tap out a message.
"Think of it!" exclaimed Elizabeth. "Why, it's simply beyond thoughts; it's overwhelming!" "A perfect dream," agreed Belle. "Aren't you the lucky girl, though!" "Guess I am," admitted Cora. "See, I can start it without cranking"; and to prove it, when the engine was quiet, she threw forward the spark lever, shifted the gasolene one a trifle, and the motor began to throb and hum rapidly.
"It is almost dark, and I prefer to leave the machine here as a little token of my love to the bandit. Suppose I want to be `run in' for traveling without a glimmer'?" Cora saw that argument was useless. Reluctantly she turned from the Turtle. Ray climbed in with Daisy and Maud. Bess and Belle were ready to start "from the seat," without cranking up. Cora gave the Whirlwind a few turns.
He smoothed it out in the following hours as he watched the markings on Mars. When they were near turnover point, he began cranking the little gyroscope to swing the ship. It saved fuel to turn without power, and he wasn't sure he could have turned accurately by blasting. He was gaining some proficiency, however, he felt. But now he had to waste fuel and ruin his orbit again.
Minutes were lost while the septuagenarian got down for another cranking up, and then in the old fashion they chugged on again. At this rate it would take them more than half an hour to reach the villa, during which time anything might happen would happen, in all probability. Still, she resolved not to risk another exhortation to speed, but to trust to luck to send another taxi in her way.
Round two o'clock on the afternoon of the third day Jane, for the moment alone in her chair, heard the phonograph the sextet from Lucia. She left her chair, looked down through the open transom and discovered Dennison cranking the machine. He must have seen her shadow, for he glanced up quickly. He crooked a finger which said, "Come on down!" She made a negative sign and withdrew her head.
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