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Presently his ear caught a high-pitched voice of defiance, that broke off and fell to whimpering a sound that made Roy's heart beat in quick jerks. He could not catch what they were saying, nor see what they were doing. He did not want to see. He hated them all. Listening yet dreading to hear he recognised the voice of Bennet Ma., known strictly out of earshot as Scab Major.
I placed my chair however so that I should be screened from observation and yet within earshot, prepared to see and listen as long as should be possible. The visitor drew a card from a very dainty case and laid it on Mr. Chelm's desk. "My name is Prime, sir, Francis Prime. I have come to consult you on a business matter." "Pray sit down, Mr. Prime. What is it I can do for you?"
"Sir," he said, so soon as we were out of earshot of the guard, "did you see those two fellows without the gate?" I said that I had. "Sir," he said, "they were following you all the way from Chelsea. I saw them at Winchester House; and I have seen them before to-day, too." "Eh?" said I, a little startled.
It fell one day to Manuel Mazaro's lot to discover, by sauntering within earshot, that to Galahad Shaughnessy only, of all the children of the Café des Exilés, the good host spoke long and confidentially concerning his daughter.
No one speaks evil of him to his face; and men tremble when they have whispered anything of some half-drawn covert, of some unstopped earth, some fox that should not have escaped, and, looking round, see that the master is within earshot. He is flattered, too, if that be of any avail to him. How he is flattered!
Sometimes she wondered if the sound of running water had this stultifying effect upon her, for wherever they went it followed them. The snow-fed streams ran everywhere, and since leaving Srinagar she could not remember a single occasion on which they had been out of earshot of their perpetual music. It haunted her like a ceaseless refrain, but yet she never wearied of it.
A year or two ago and the wounded soldiery of mankind were all shut up together in some basking angle of the Riviera, walking a dusty promenade or sitting in dusty olive-yards within earshot of the interminable and unchanging surf idle among spiritless idlers not perhaps dying, yet hardly living either, and aspiring, sometimes fiercely, after livelier weather and some vivifying change.
Sufficient, he assured her, 'for a gentlemanly appearance. 'I have given you your warning, was her inscrutable rejoinder, uttered within earshot of the young people, to whom, especially to Elizabeth, she was gracious. The damsel's boating uniform was praised, and her sunny flush of exercise and exposure. Lady Camper regretted that she could not abandon her parasol: 'I freckle so easily.
And then, being by now out of earshot of the press, "royal Harmachis, I am come charged with a message to thee from thy father Amenemhat." "Is he well?" I asked. "Yes, he is well, though waiting for the moment tries him sorely." "And his message?" "It is this. He sends greeting to thee and with it warning that a great danger threatens thee, though he cannot read it.
"Bring them directly to my cabin. The Aleuts will not hurt you, now that they know we are friends." He hurried away, but Andy handled his rifle very suggestively and kept both eyes on the red men. The latter, however, kept to themselves and only stared at the crew of the Snowbird with great curiosity. "Hurrah!" quoth Jack, when in earshot. "Here they are, safe and sound, Professor!"
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