United States or Christmas Island ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
He dropped the tip of the Winchester's foresight to the bottom of the backsight's V, and knew, almost before the shot rang out, and an ownerless Martini tumbled out of the tree-crotch, that Fate had decided for Saxham. Then he went back to the Hospital, grim-jawed and inscrutable as ever. A dirty white rag was being hoisted on a pole by one of the relatives of the deceased.
"Get your horses and report here. The first twenty to return, go." From out the group of newcomers one man emerged. It was McPherson. "Who'll lend me a horse?" he queried. No man gave answer. Already the group had separated. For a moment the Scotchman halted, grim-jawed, his legs an inverted V; then silent as they, equally swiftly, he followed.
The suddenly forked eyebrow, the snarling twitch of the upper lip, turned the whole delicate little face into a grotesque but desperately unconscious caricature of the grim-jawed father. As though the father himself had snubbed her for some unimaginable familiarity the White Linen Nurse winced back in hopeless confusion.
To call him hard and stern, and seek his aid and sympathy at every pinch; to deem him cold and grudging, and accept his sacrifices as matter of course that was the way of the world with grim-jawed, tender-hearted Owen Saxham. And she, who had done like the rest, knew him now, and valued him for what he was, and loved him!
"I air goin' now, an'll never come no more, but don't ask me to say nothin', please." She turned into the aisle as Griggs stepped from the platform. She directed an appealing glance toward him that cut the man's heart through like a knife. "I want to go," she repeated. "Please!" "Not yet," broke in Waldstricker, grim-jawed. "It's the duty of this church to teach you a lesson if it can."
Word Of The Day