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Oh! then, for certain, the sight of him was anything but encouraging; for he looked like some unknown animal, some variety of the species Bonassus, a crocodile on end, a crumpled-up elephant, or a great bear on the watch. And when he loaded his rifle a sort of culverin or wall-piece, which no one but himself knew how to manage gracious powers! he was something to see.
He gave one more fleeting glance at the crumpled-up figure of his chum, seeking for a sign of life, but he saw none. Then he swung about, turning in toward the nearest Hun airman, and not away from him, and opened up with the machine gun, using both hands on that for a moment, while he steered with his knees.
"You are done up like a peasant woman, . . . Come along, . . . Please make haste!" Blowing his nose in a dirty, crumpled-up handkerchief and pulling down his grey reefer jacket, Ivan Matveyitch goes through the hall and the drawing-room to the study. There a place and paper and even cigarettes had been put ready for him long ago.
Sarves him well right. 'But how did you come to hear about it? We knew father couldn't read nor write. 'I have a chap as is paid to read the papers reg'lar, and to put me on when there's anything in 'em as I want to know. He's bin over here to-day and give me the office. Here's the paper he left. Father pulls out a crumpled-up dirty-lookin' bit of newspaper.
The door was open, and the first thing Alfred saw was Harold sitting in a strange crumpled-up attitude on the sofa. He sat with his back to the light, and the room was lit only by one window. But, even so, Alfred could distinguish the strange pallor. 'Harold! he called, 'Harold! Receiving no answer, he stepped forward hastily and took the dead man by the shoulders.
As they came nearer earth they saw a comparatively smooth and level spot amid a clearing of trees. It was not far from where the wreck lay, a crumpled-up mass. Down floated the Abaris gently, and hardly had she ceased rolling along on her wheels that Dick and the others rushed out to lend their aid to Uncle Ezra and the others. Dick's uncle lay at some little distance from the broken craft.
And as he slipped he give that feller a swing and let loose of him, and then ketched himself by the crook of one knee. The feller turned over twicet in the air and landed in a little crumpled-up pile on the ground, and never made a sound. The fellers that had holt of me forgot me and stood up, and I stood up too, and looked. The balloon was rising fast.
Then they stared round the cave again. There did not seem to be a place where treasure could be hidden. Moreover, there were traces of a not very remote picnic the dead ashes of a gipsy fire, one or two crumpled-up balls of paper, some broken bottles! "That's it," said Jerry at last. "It was probably the people who had that picnic those broken bottles are the same as the one we found.
I whirled about, my heart leaping wildly. Detective-Sergeant Durham was standing watching me, a grim smile upon his face! I laughed rather shakily. "Lucky indeed!" I said. "Thank God you're here. This pigtail is a nightmare which threatens to drive me mad!" The detective advanced and knelt beside the crumpled-up figure on the ground. He examined it briefly, and then stood up.
Patsy's arms fell limp across the counter, her head followed, and she sat there a crumpled-up, dejected little heap. "By Jack-a-diamonds!" swore the storekeeper. "She 'ain't swoomed, has she, boys?" The quorum were on the verge of investigating when she denied the fact in person. "Where am I? In the name of Saint Peter, what place is this?" "This? Why, this is Lebanon." She smiled weakly.
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