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I've been crawling like a dog through the chaparral but you know as well as I do, those fellows are like blood-hounds on the scent. I was pretty nearly dead-beat when I caught sight of this place. I little thought it was you that I should find here." "What is to be done?" she said, not helplessly wondering, but actively thinking. "First of all, you must eat and drink.
Burns laughed a hearty, care-free laugh. He was in wild spirits, Johnny could see that, and wondered why the Doctor should be so happy over pulling a dead-beat family out of their troubles. Everybody knew Joe Tressler. And Johnny understood that the Doctor had given up going away on Joe's account ten days ago, when he took the case on the eve of his departure.
The massacre having been timed a little before nightfall, darkness helped them to get clear away; but Menzies, by over-riding his little mare, flung her, an hour later, with a broken fetlock, and Prior's pony being all but dead-beat, they abandoned the poor brutes on the mountain-side, took to their feet and stumbled on until the setting of the young moon.
I've seen such customers as you before. You're a beat!" "A what?" "A beat a dead-beat, if you prefer it. Off you go at the next station!" Jasper was greatly alarmed at the unexpected turn affairs had taken. "Let me go to St. Louis, and I'll get money to pay you." "It's no use," said the conductor, inexorably. "My orders are strict. If you can't pay, you can't ride."
It seemed to me as they war all going slow, as if the horses war dead-beat; but what scared me most was to see as the clump of Injins war gaining on the two ahead of them, one of whom I felt sure now was the Captain's daughter, and the other I guessed was Dick. "The Captain saw it too, for he gave a strange sort of cry.
Here I stripped off everything, packed all my kit in a bundle, washed, put on a clean suit of pyjamas, and at about 4 A.M. was lying in this delicious bed, dead-beat, but blissfully comfortable. Oddly, I couldn't sleep, but lay in a dreamy trance, smoking cigarettes, with a beatific red-caped vision hovering about in the half light.
Meanwhile Karl, who was dead-beat, stretched himself out under the trees, covered himself with his cloak, and fell fast asleep, meaning only to rest a minute or two, before he also set off home. It was late when he awoke; the full moon was shining. He felt quite dazed. Where could he be? He had slept in many queer little rooms when he was travelling; but they always had a window and a door.
Those staring eyes saw nothing but the brown street sliding under him, a pair of sweating ears, a flapping mane, and before him a tumble of old roofs; while beyond in the harbour, the spars of a sloop of war pricked the evening. Clear of the little town huddling on the hillside, he drove along the bank of the slow green river, flogging still. One thing was clear: the grey was dead-beat.
"'If I was the pore gal I'd haunt 'im, ses the ordinary seaman; 'every night of 'is life I'd stand afore 'im dripping with water and moaning. "'P'r'aps she will, ses the cook; 'let's 'ope so, at any rate. "I didn't answer 'em; I was too dead-beat. Besides which, I've got a 'orror of ghosts, and the idea of being on the wharf alone of a night arter such a thing was a'most too much for me.
When we got right to the top of this confounded gully, nearly dead-beat all of us, and only for the dog heeling them up every now and then, and making his teeth nearly meet in them, without a whimper, I believe the cattle would have charged back and beat us.
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