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Come along, please," and Peleg Snuggers led the way to where a large and extra-heavy carryall stood. A splendid team of iron-grays was attached to the carriage; and Dick, who loved good horseflesh, could not help but admire the animals. "Oh, they are fine, Master Richard," said Snuggers. "Nothing finer on the lake shore. Captain Putnam's one recreation is to drive behind a fast team." "Is it?
But the woman with the toothache saw the shadow move you remember she said she saw you sink forward, as if you'd fallen asleep." "Yes; and she was right. It DID move. I suppose some extra-heavy dray must have jolted by the flimsy building at any rate, something gave my mannikin a jar, and when I came back he had sunk forward, half over the table." There was a long silence between the two men.
But the woman with the toothache saw the shadow move you remember she said she saw you sink forward, as if you'd fallen asleep." "Yes; and she was right. It did move. I suppose some extra-heavy dray must have jolted by the flimsy building at any rate, something gave my mannikin a jar, and when I came back he had sunk forward, half over the table." There was a long silence between the two men.
With blankets spread on the level space thus provided, with the extra-heavy top and side curtains in place, and the electric light switched on, tourists had a refuge cleaner than a country hotel and safer than a tent.... The first Touricar was being built. Carl was circularizing a list of possible purchasers, and corresponding with makers of camping goods.
"But unless we land they'll be suspicious. And if we land ..." Loring interrupted. "Nobody's going to suspect a thing. I'll tell traffic control we've got an extra-heavy load. Then they won't let us land. We follow their orders and blast off into space find an emergency fuel station head for Tara and nobody suspects anything." Mason twisted his face into a scowl.
One remembers the frequent disappointments that came to such intrepid climbers as Whymper in Ecuador, Martin Conway in Bolivia and Fitzgerald in Chile and Argentina, due to high winds, the sudden advent of terrific snowstorms and the weakness caused by soroche. At the cost of carrying extra-heavy loads we determined to try to avoid being obliged to turn back.
Not only did Kitty's man Mike hammer up at night the rusty iron shutters protecting Kling's side window, clean away the snow before his store, and lend a hand in the moving of extra-heavy pieces, but he was even known to wash the windows and kindle a fire.
Halfway across an inside page ran the explanation of Io's collapse. read the caption, in the glaring vulgarity of extra-heavy type, and below; Ducal Heir Offers Private Reward to Dinner Party of Friends After an estimating look at the girl, who sat quite still with hot, blurred eyes, Miss Van Arsdale carefully read the article through.
The morning opens with a fine drizzle or extra-heavy mist that is penetrating and miserable, soaking freely into one's clothes, and threatening every minute to change into a regular rain. It is fourteen miles to Futtehpore, and thence two miles off the straight road to the railway-station, where I understand refreshments are to be obtained.
Sixty holes had to be made in the iron plates so that the four stiffening timbers could be attached to the bottom to prevent the craft from breaking in two under the extra-heavy boiler. Inside, cross timbers were also added to resist the strain.
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