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His puffs and pants prevented him from answering for a full half-minute. "I was busy on the first floor, sir," he protested at last. "I came at the very earliest moment." "What's going on on the first floor?" "The lady is in a great hurry, sir. She is going away, sir. She has been taking a hasty meal, and her carriage is ordered to be round at the door this very minute.
H. V. Leslie I'm much obliged for his favoring me with an appointment, but long as he's so rushed, I'll make him a present of his blessed quarter-hour." "My land, sir!" gasped the doorkeeper. "I can't take such a message to him!" "Suit yourself," said Blake, deliberately drawing a cigar from his vest pocket and biting off the tip. This time the man was gone a full half-minute.
Freddie did some rapid-fire thinking in the next half-minute, with the result that Constance Fowler was banished forever from his calculations and Katherine Rodney restored to her own. So long as he could not possibly win Constance he figured that he might just as well devote himself to the girl he was virtually engaged to marry. Freddie's was a convenient and adaptable constancy.
And then the Willow spoke to him softly. "You are not going to run away, Baree. Non, you are going to stay with me, and we will kill that man-beast if he dares do to me again what he did back there." She flung back the loose hair from about her flushed face, and for a moment she forgot Baree as she thought of that half-minute at the edge of the chasm.
Reaching out with his gaff, he hooked this aboard, and began hauling in the warp. At last the heavily weighted trap started off bottom and began to ascend. In a half-minute its end, draped with marine growths, broke the surface. Holding the trap against the side, Jim tore off its incumbrances.
It will please your brother, after all these years, to see you doing time Here! Drop that, curse you!" There was a deafening report, a blinding flash and a cloud of smoke. Then a gurgling groan, the scraping of a heavy body against the wall, and Colonel Grand slid to the floor, his arms and legs writhing in the last tremendous spasm of death. Neither of the Cronks moved for a full half-minute.
The din, indeed, persisted, deafened, shook them; but the crowd seemed to be at a stand a few doors down the Rue St. Honore. For a half-minute, a long half-minute, which appeared an age, it drew no nearer. Would it draw nearer? Would it come on? Or would it turn again? The doubt, so much worse than despair, began to sap that courage of the man which is always better fitted to do than to suffer.
I knew quite well what was going to happen, because I could date back in my own life and inspect the record. The captain looked on, during a silent half-minute, then took the wheel himself, and crowded the boat in, till she went scraping along within a hand-breadth of the ships.
A half-minute later, and with shouts of "Westminster! Westminster!" the reinforcement came tearing up the street. Their arrival in an instant changed the face of things.
Amos crawled on deck and forward to the bridge, where, with Elisha's help, he dragged on the whistle-rope and dissipated the remaining steam in a wheezy, gasping howl, which lasted about a half-minute. It was answered by a furious siren-blast from directly astern; and out of the fog, at twenty knots an hour, came a mammoth black steamer.
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