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Leary dragged himself up beside the skipper. As the deadlight had been closed over the port, the state-room was illumined only by a gray half-gloom from the cabin. "This bunk bes nigh full o' junk," said Nolan. "The skipper o' this ship must ha' slept in the lower bunk an' kept his stores here.
For, be it known, we knew the positions of the Land by tradition, coming from that ancient time when, in the Half-Gloom they had builded the Pyramid; they having known the use of that ancient compass, and with sight of the Sun had named the Positions; though we of that far future day had forgotten the very beginnings of those Names of Direction; and used them but because our fathers did a million years and more.
The keen eyes on the bank watched the canoe till it was lost in the half-gloom below the first rapids, and then they went slowly back to Tom Sanger's house. "So there'll be no wedding to-morrow," said the Man from Clancey's. "Funerals, more likely," drawled another. "Jinny Long's in that canoe, an' she ginerally does what she wants to," said Tom Sanger sagely.
But when the opportunity came she did not say all that she had meant to say! She went over one morning to her father's house to get some papers which he had left in his desk. The house had been closed for weeks and the hall, as she entered it, was cold with a chill that reached the marrow of her bones it was dim with the half-gloom of drawn curtains and closed doors.
And, as a matter of fact, he did die before me, while he was still young in years; but years passed, and I had forgotten his promise, his threat. One night I was lying in bed, and could not get to sleep, neither did I wish to do so. It was neither light nor dark in the room; I began to stare into the grey half-gloom.
"You'd better be putting your rigging on the filly," as he slid from his broncho and stepped to the door of the stall. There was no answer. He peered into the half-gloom of the place. It was empty save for the two horses. "That's funny as thunder," he said, puzzled, to Bert. "Where'd you reckon th' Ramblin' Kid is?" "Darned if I know ain't he there?"
Jiuyémon, hearing his apprentice cry out, jumped up, and, lighting his night-lamp, looked about him in the half-gloom, and saw Kashiku with the bloody knife, hunting for him that she might kill him. Springing upon her before she saw him, he clutched her right hand, and, having secured her, bound her with cords so that she could not move.
The keen eyes on the bank watched the canoe till it was lost in the half-gloom below the first rapids, and then they went slowly back to Tom Sanger's house. "So there'll be no wedding to-morrow," said the Man from Clancey's. "Funerals, more likely," drawled another. "Jinny Long's in that canoe, an' she ginerally does what she wants to," said Tom Sanger sagely.
As the Master held it up in the sand-lashed dimness, half-gloom and half-light, that formed a kind of aura round the fire an aura sheeted through and all about by the aerial avalanches of the sand the Legionaries got some vague idea of the necklace. Three black pearls and two white were strung on a fine chain of gold. A gap in their succession told where the missing pearl formerly had been.
And then in the half-gloom of the cabin Philip missed. He put all his effort in that third blow and as his clenched fist shot over the other's shoulder he was carried off his balance and found himself again in the clutch of his enemy's arms. This time a huge hand found his throat. The other he blocked with his left arm, while with his right he drove in short-arm jabs against neck and jaw.
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