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After that, for some half-minute, he stared, without a word. "There are two more out there, Sir," I told him, and indicated the place with my finger. It was a little time before he managed to locate these and when he did, he gave them only a short glance. Then he got down off the spar, and spoke to us. "Come down off there," he said, quickly. "Get your brooms and clear up. Don't say a word!
Then with a sudden swift movement she applied her forefinger to the button and held it there for a long half-minute. Then she sat down on the edge of the bed, her kimono folded about her, and waited.
Then the finer end of Fearenside's whip reached his property, and the dog, yelping with dismay, retreated under the wheels of the waggon. It was all the business of a swift half-minute. No one spoke, everyone shouted. The stranger glanced swiftly at his torn glove and at his leg, made as if he would stoop to the latter, then turned and rushed swiftly up the steps into the inn.
Why could not her mother let him believe for one half-minute that he was not "lying there on his back" with no need of fashionable attire? It made Dexie's heart ache to see the changed expression come over her father's face at the thoughtless words, and she turned from the room to hide her tears.
The whole incident was over in a half-minute. By the time that epithet had burst without volition from her lips the robber, with his black-veiled face, had slunk to the door and was gone. With an agility she had not displayed since girlhood, Auntie sprang from the bed, and, clutching the bag containing her money and jewels, furiously rang the bell.
In the same instant of his appearance she heard the unmistakable crack of a gun, saw the rider jerk backward in the saddle, throw up one hand and then the darkness dropped between them. Lorraine crouched behind a juniper bush close against the rock and waited. The next flash came within a half-minute. It showed a man at the horse's head, holding it by the bridle. The horse was rearing.
At the top of the hill he encountered the young Easterner. The latter looked puzzled, in a half-humourous way. "I left Miss Caldwell here a half-minute ago," he observed to Alfred, "and I guess she's given me the slip. Scold her good for me when she comes in will you?" He grinned, with good-natured malice at the idea of Alfred's scolding anyone. Then Alfred surprised him.
The next half-minute or so was one of most intense and painful excitement to us spectators on shore. Each man moved nearer to the water, and cast off some article of clothing, or gave a last look to the line, or a final adjustment to the life-buoy round his waist.
Oh, my men! my beautiful men! He edged forward as though he could see. 'I could draw those chaps once. Who'll draw 'em now? 'They'll move off in a minute. Don't jump when the band begins. 'Huh! I'm not a new charger. It's the silences that hurt. Nearer, Torp! nearer! Oh, my God, what wouldn't I give to see 'em for a minute! one half-minute!
The horror of what was coming turned his blood to ice. But he could not move; nor could he close his eyes. "Oh, God! Oh, God! Oh, God!" he groaned. And, finally, "Oh, thank God!" Julia's wings were moving. But apparently she still had little control of them. They flapped frantically a half-minute; but they had arrested her fall; they held her up.
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