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They had supper, then gambled a while by the light of the fire, and afterward turned in, setting no watch. It was about midnight when one of the party awoke, half-arose and listened. He heard a rumbling sound that seemed to surprise him. "I say, pards," he called out. A man awoke, and asked drowsily: "What is it, Sully?" "I hear wheels." "Nonsense." "But I do." "It's the roar of the stream."
"Now, remembering that you are still under oath to tell God's truth, you may introduce your evidence," and the alcalde half-arose from his seat in his anxiety to see what this new evidence might be. "Of course, I'm none shore that it belongs tew either of th' prisoners," Quinley began.
He clung to the banister, descending the stairs as a frightful clatter rang out. A boy about his own age, coming up the stairs, had collided with Dewey. Both tripped up and rolled to the front entry. The boy got up, unhurt. Dewey, groaning, half-arose, fell back, and lay prostrate, one limb bent up under him. Andy was still weak and dizzy-headed, but he acted promptly for the occasion.
For some unaccountable reason the driver put on a little more speed. Then came Jane McCarthy's voice, in a quick, warning shout: "Here's trouble. Jump, girls! Jump! We're going in!" They did not know what it was that they were going into, but not a girl of them obeyed Jane's command. Margery half-arose from the seat. Hazel pulled her back. "Sit still, girls!" commanded Miss Elting.
He was painfully aware that he ought not to be thus secretly watching her, but he hesitated as one about to take a step that could never be retraced. She started when he appeared in the doorway of the building and half-arose from her place. Then recognizing him she dropped back on the grass; and there was a half-amused frown on her face, though her cheeks were red.
Under the fresh impetus the rolling craft panted and wheezed and made her way through the ripples at a really creditable pace. As the shadows thickened Brice half-arose in his seat to get a better glimpse of a little motorboat which had just sprung into view from around the mangrove-covered headland that cut off the view of Standish's mainland dock.
The effect of this note, strange to say, was to fill its recipient not with satisfaction, not even with surprise, but with sudden horror. She felt abandoned, forsaken, not pausing to reflect that now she had only what she had demanded of her late companion, guardian, she now hastily called him, and not jailer. Unconsciously she half-arose, would have left the room.
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