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Updated: June 19, 2025
Her person was formed in the most feminine proportions; she was not tall, but her mountain life had given freedom to her motions, so that her light step scarce made her foot-fall heard as she tript across the hall to meet me.
Now only a hoarse lamenting broke the quiet. It was an hour later when some one tapped on the school-room door Miss French, doubtless, since it was her allotted time. The lamentations swelled then and grew fainter only when the last foot-fall died away on the stairs. Then Gwendolyn slept. Awakening, she lay and watched out through the upper panes of the front window.
After a while the foot-fall again gained upon him, and once more the walk merged into the interminable jog-jog of the back-trail. It was morning when the two began that last relay. It was four o'clock in the afternoon when they arrived amid the outskirts of the scattered prairie terminus which was their destination. Within ten minutes thereafter the two had separated.
Presently I thought I heard a soft foot-fall and a whisper, also that I saw the shape of a woman which reminded me of Nombe, shown faintly by the starlight. It vanished in a moment and Lost returned wagging his tail, as he might well have done if it were Nombe who was attached to the dog.
He could now distinguish her light foot-fall now she was divided from him by a young acacia-shrub which hid her from his gaze-now she set down two water-jars on the ground now she briskly lifted the bucket and filled the vessel she held in her left hand now she looked towards the eastern horizon, where the dim light of dawn grew broader and brighter, and Lysias thought he recognized Irene and now Praised be the gods! he was sure; before him stood the younger and not the elder sister; the very maiden whom he sought.
When Dirke passed through the office of the Mountain Lion and stepped out on the veranda, the night was far spent, but the deep June sky was still spangled with stars. He stood for an instant at the top of the steps, hardly aware of the delicious wash of the night air on his face, which yet he paused to enjoy. There was a foot-fall close at hand and a voice. "M. le croupier?" the voice queried.
"'Ah, sighed Miss Ringtop, 'it reminds me of Gamaliel J. Gawthrop's beautiful lines: "Unrobed man is lying hoary In the distance, gray and dead; There no wreaths of godless glory To his mist-like tresses wed, And the foot-fall of the Ages Reigns supreme, with noiseless tread."
As she came toward the house she felt its heat, dry and baking, on her face. In front of her, walking in, the same direction, was a man, pacing the pavement with an even, thudding foot-fall.
Thus heavily moved the hours till midnight, when she counted the sullen notes of the great clock, as they rolled along the rampart, unmingled with any sound, except the distant foot-fall of a sentinel, who came to relieve guard.
There was a rustle in the bushes, the sound of twigs snapping, a soft foot-fall on the dead leaves. Marche stopped, took his pipe out of his mouth, and listened. Patter! patter! patter! over the crackling underbrush, now near, now far away in the depths of the forest; then sudden silence, the silence that startles.
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