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The binoculars of the Master and Bohannan drew the machine almost to fingers' touch. "Only one man aboard her, with a machine-gun," commented the Master, eyes at glass, as he watched the flick of sunlight on the attacker's fuselage, the dip and glitter of her varnished wings, the blur of her propellers. Already the roaring of her exhaust gusted down to them. "Ah, see? She's turning, now.
The commanding sharp tones made all these torpid men start like a sudden flick of a whip. Then again, motionless where they lay, the force of habit made some of them repeat the order in hardly audible murmurs. Captain Allistoun glanced down at his crew, and several, with fumbling fingers and hopeless movements, tried to cast themselves adrift. He repeated impatiently, "Wear ship. Now then, Mr.
If so, as a snake sheds its skin she must surely have sloughed her original nature. He was thankful for that, thankful for her absolute lack of pose and vanity. He even delighted in her self-mockery, divined by him. So few woman mocked at themselves and so many mocked at others. If Miss Van Tuyn had intended to give a flick to his jealousy at the end of her letter she had failed.
So, with an impudent flick of his tail he followed Huldah, with the air of one who would not deign to fight mere farm-dogs.
The lash of it against her face the flick of salt spray on her lips the swing of the boat as it cut through the racing crests how glorious it all was! Clark Bryant watched her, understanding all at once that he was nothing to her, that he had no part or lot in her heart. He was as one forgotten and left behind. And how lovely, how desirable she was! He had never seen her look so beautiful.
She was thawing a little, and perhaps he felt this, for there came an eager, yearning note into the full, deep voice which sounded so oddly near, and which, for the moment, obliterated the long years since she had heard it last. "How's my godson? Flick still in the land of the living, eh?" "Thank heaven, yes! That dog's the one thing in the world Timmy cares for, I sometimes think."
Hanson, from the back of the hall, yielded to his inclination to laugh. "They lined up just as I expected," muttered the sheriff as he advanced down the room, "and it's a lot of good it's going to do them. Say," he called to Flick and Gallito, "it ain't no use drawing your guns, boys. I guess you two old hands got sense enough to see that. So all you got to do is to hand over the prisoner.
This roused Flick to a sudden interest, some light came into his heavy eyes, a dull flush rose on his cheek. "What do you mean?" he asked. "This: Yesterday morning when that hound sat there and talked to me there was something I said which made him forget himself in anger, and he said: 'Me! The Black Pearl smirched by me!" "He said that?"
He was trying to think of the way. "Oh, Bill!" he called, getting stiffly to his feet. "Let's get into the cabin and go over those tally books." Which was merely a subterfuge to get Bill away from the wagon without letting the boys know something was wrong. Bill got up, brushed the dirt off his trousers with a flick of his fingers, lighted the cigarette he had just rolled and followed the boss.
'Then it must have been those two 'I warned you not to show them to anybody, said the Holy Man. 'You deserve but I will give you one more chance. And, turning, he unhooked something from the wall. 'When you wish to dust your own jacket or those of your friends, he said, 'you have only got to say, "Flack, flick, switch, be quick," and you will see what happens.
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