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A dozen times during the hour that followed one of the beavers swam up to the dead-line, and rested there, looking at the shining little bodies of the babies that Kazan had killed. Perhaps it was the mother, and perhaps some finer instinct unknown to Kazan told this to Gray Wolf.
"No use, ma'am. I've talked till my throat aches, but it don't do a mite of good. Nobody believes a word of what I say. Y'u see, we ain't got any proof." "Proof! We have enough, God knows! didn't this villain this outlaw that calls himself Jack Holloway attack and try to murder him?" "That's what we believe, but the report out is that one of us punchers shot him up for crossing the dead-line."
As the foresail went up the mast, a wail of consternation arose from the canoes lying along the dead-line. And as the anchor broke out and the Kittiwake's head paid off in the light breeze, old One-Eye, daring the rifles levelled on him, paddled alongside and made frantic signs of his tribe's willingness to trade pennies for ten sticks. "Boy! a drinking nut," Pankburn called.
Peter, following his wife's careful instructions, has already become more dignified in his speech, more grave in his movements. She tells him that the future of society depends on his knowledge and his skill, and he agrees to this also. He has learned what you can do and what you had better not do; he will never again cross the dead-line into crime, or take chances with experiments in blackmail.
Kirk grunted. "So this is some dead-line dump. Well, I'm going to get out understand? Hand me my trousers and I'll slip you a quarter." The steward did as desired, but a blind search showed the pockets to be empty. "Give me the coat and vest." But here again Kirk found nothing, and was forced to apologize. "Sorry, old man, but I must have left it at the office.
Her reddish hair was low on her neck, and she held a cigarette, negligently, in her teeth. All the women smoked, Mrs. Johns incessantly. She laid one hand lightly on the revolver, and flicked the ash from her cigarette with the other. "We have decided," she said insolently, "that, if the crew may establish a dead-line, so may we. Our dead-line is the foot of the companionway.
I've never taken any special stock in this modern theory that no fellow over forty should be given a job, or no man over sixty allowed to keep one. Of course, there's a dead-line in business, just as there is in preaching, and fifty's a good, convenient age at which to draw it; but it's been my experience that there are a lot of dead ones on both sides of it.
Again and again during the day Lee Virginia went to the middle of the bridge, which was the dead-line, and there stood to catch some sign, some wave of the hand from her lover. Strange courtship! and yet hour by hour the tie which bound these young souls together was strengthened.
"You must not come a step nearer. Go back across the dead-line and stay there. No one but the doctor shall enter this door. Now that's final." "I want to help!" she protested. "I know you do; but I won't have it. This quarantine is real, and it goes!" "But suppose you yourself get sick?" "We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. I'm all right so far, and I'll call for help when I need it."
In many instances which have come under my observation, when hostile lines of infantry engage at close range and the assailants afterward retire, there was a "dead-line" beyond which no man advanced but to fall. Not a soul of them ever reached the enemy's front to be bayoneted or captured. It was a matter of the difference of three or four paces too small a distance to affect the accuracy of aim.
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