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Sharp and crisp it fell on Alan's ears. He sat for a moment stunned, the half-rolled cigarette still between his fingers. The driver drew up his four horses with a jerk and brought them to a huddled halt. "Hands up!" came again the stinging imperative. Now, for the first time, it reached Alan's consciousness that the stage was actually being held up.
The rabbit, too, was not slow to learn the taste of its twigs and bark; and when the fruit was ripe, the squirrel half-rolled, half-carried it to his hole; and even the musquash crept up the bank from the brook at evening, and greedily devoured it, until he had worn a path in the grass there; and when it was frozen and thawed, the crow and the jay were glad to taste it occasionally.
The rabbit, too, was not slow to learn the taste of its twigs and bark; and when the fruit was ripe, the squirrel half-rolled, half-carried it to his hole; and even the musquash crept up the bank from the brook at evening, and greedily devoured it, until he had worn a path in the grass there; and when it was frozen and thawed, the crow and the jay were glad to taste it occasionally.
Then, blindly, brokenly, smothered in blood, red-visaged and horrible, he half-rolled, half blundered free of that frightful clinch, and instantly rolled up! 'Twas his habit, the one refuge of his life, so long as he breathed; his last, and usually, but not always, his first, hope. The owl struggled somehow, in a cloud of her own feathers, to her feet.
His reading-table was on his right, and the strong lamp above it ringed it with a very vivid circle of golden light. A half-rolled palimpsest lay in the centre, and around it were many quaint articles of bric-a-brac. One of these was a large funnel, such as is used for filling wine casks. It appeared to be made of black wood, and to be rimmed with discoloured brass.
"'She's done for! she's dead, the yellow devil! yelled Pharaoh in exultation; and at that very moment the lioness, with a sort of convulsive rush, half-rolled, half-sprang, into the patch of thick bush to the right. I fired after her as she went, but so far as I could see without result; indeed the probability is that I missed her clean.
The other, hardly more than a boy, urged that they hasten. Fear vibrated in his voice. The squat Mexican laughed and began to roll a cigarette. None had overtaken them, he said. And were they not now in the Land Where No Man Lived? "Si!" said Waring softly. The half-rolled cigarette fluttered to the ground. The Mexican's heavy lip sagged, showing broken teeth.
I just did save myself some coffee, and that was all but it was cold as that creek, and " Habit impelled him to stop there long enough to run his tongue along the edge of a half-rolled cigarette, and accident caused his eyes to catch the amused quirk on the lips of Pink and Irish, and the laughing glance they exchanged.
"I'm all right," Arthur said weakly. "You get out before it all comes down." "I won't leave you," she declared "Where are you caught? Are you badly hurt? Hurry, please hurry!" Arthur stirred, but could not loosen his feet. He half-rolled over, and the table moved as if it had been precariously balanced, and slid heavily to one side.
As she did so the sudden movement detached some object that hung within the breast of her loose-fitting sack something bright and gleaming that clattered to the floor, falling close to the feet of the drowsing attendant, while another a thin, circular case of soft leather, half-rolled, half-bounded toward the unwelcome visitors at the door.
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