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Updated: June 7, 2025
It was erected in no sentimental spirit, but for very practical purposes, and at a date when Watling's Island had not been identified with the Guanahani of Columbus's landfall; and yet of all the monuments that have been raised to him I can think of nothing more appropriate than this lonely tower that stands by day amid the bright sunshine in the track of the trade wind, and by night throws its powerful double flash every half-minute across the dark lonely sea.
On the platform she chose an empty compartment and stood before the door of it for a good half-minute, looking up and down the train with eyes even more lynxlike than those of the detectives. Then she almost flung Pollyooly into the carriage, hustled her into the farthest corner, and fairly sat on her in her effort to screen her from the eyes of the crowd. "Do not stir!" she hissed.
She'll be smashed to matchwood in a minute, the after-fall has unshipped;" then whipping a knife from the belt of one of them he severed the remaining fall, and saw the boat plunge down sternwards and outwards from the side just in time; another half-minute and she would have disappeared under the steamer's bottom to be hopelessly stove in.
"Now you feel like a man, and not like a girl!" said Jack. "Eh, what? Oh, I beg your pardon." For Miss Circe had appeared had absolutely been obliged to wait a whole half-minute unobserved and now stood there a dazzling but pouting apparition. In eagerly turning to receive her, Jack's foot slipped on the step, and he fell. The thoroughbred started, gave a sickening plunge forward, and was off!
The Englishman's fingers were tapping nervously on the edge of the chair-seat. "I wish you to decline, then." The childish expression left the girl's eyes, the listlessness left her attitude. "Why, if I may ask?" A challenge was in the query. Scotty arose, and for a half-minute walked back and forth across the disordered room. At last he stopped, facing his daughter.
A half-minute of quiet prowling revealed our full quota of livestock, even to the pack-horse that bore our beds and grub, each one tied hard and fast to a tree. Also our six-shooters reposed in their scabbards, the four belts hooked over the horn of MacRae's saddle. Maybe it didn't feel good to be on the hurricane deck of a good horse once more!
'You made a mistake, didn't you, mother? continued the little one. 'I must have. The strangest mistake a woman ever made! Nothing more was said, and Swithin ascended, words from above indicating to him that his footsteps were heard. In another half-minute he rose through the hatchway.
At last he heard a rustle of the fallen leaves; he shrank closer and closer into the darkness of the bank. Then swift light steps not down the path, from above, but upward, from below; his heart beat quick and loud. And in another half-minute a man came in sight, within three yards of Frank's hiding-place. Frank sprang out instantly.
Cotter says she can't die until she sees you, and she's so tired trying to hold out. She won't have breath left to talk, mother says, if you don't hurry." Perplexed, uncertain, I waited a half-minute longer. Mrs. Cotter, the renter of Mrs. Gibbons's middle room, and sometime boarder, I had seen frequently of late.
The response to which, being foreordained from the beginning of time, took Doctor Mayberry just one exciting half-minute grab and shove to accomplish, at the end of which a ruffled but chastened Spangles was forced to assemble her family and content herself behind the bars of the despised coop.
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