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The Canadian axe-haft is long, and he sprang straight in at the man. As he did so, the big blade came down, and flashed by a hand's breadth behind his shoulders. He felt a burning pain on the outside of his thigh, but that did not seem to matter, and he was clutching at his opponent's throat when he was bodily flung aside.
He knew that he could not kill this rat he detested. He thought of the wrecked life of the girl and set his teeth. Still he could not fire. "Cartwright," he said softly, "I got you covered. Your right hand's on the floor with your gun. Don't raise that hand!" In the shadow against the wall Cartwright moved, but he obeyed. The revolver still glimmered on the floor.
Then he lost sight of him in the clouds of dust. For perhaps five minutes they tore on, tense and silent, at a pace that Montague had never equalled in an express train. Vehicles coming the other way would leap into sight, charging straight at them, it seemed, and shooting past a hand's breadth away.
The settler would run in debt to lay in a stock of food and whisky. Out of the crowd that would come several would not do a hand's turn, but drink and eat; part would work during the forenoon and then, after dinner, join in the talk and drinking; while the remainder would put in a faithful day's labor. It often happened that bees ended in quarrels, sometimes in fights.
Here Saturn's grey chaos rolls over me, and I obtain dim, shuddering glimpses into those Polar eternities; when wedged bastions of ice pressed hard upon what are now the Tropics; and in all the 25,000 miles of this world's circumference, not an inhabitable hand's breadth of land was visible.
He described the scheme, but in such a way as rather to damn it than praise it; and as for the Bill itself, which he had undertaken to compare with former Factory Bills, when he sat down he left it, indeed, in a parlous case a poor, limping, doubtful thing, quite as likely to ruin the East End as to do it a hand's turn of good.
The envelope slipped from his numbed fingers as Stanton tried to take it. "Dropped near the wheel. My hand's 'most frozen, though I've good thick mittens on. It's about the coldest night I've been out in." He drove on, and Stanton hurried in and flung the door to before he handed the telegram to Curtis. When the corporal opened it his face grew intent. "It's from Sergeant Crane," he said.
Suddenly he gripped her arm, his face within a hand's breadth of her own, his words falling hot and quickly on her ear. "It is yours to end it when you will, Valerie," he passionately reminded her. "Give yourself into my keeping. Let it be mine to watch over you henceforth. Let me " Abruptly he ceased.
"Do you see something beautiful up there?" With an inarticulate cry she wheeled around and faced Dr. Kemp within a hand's breadth of her. "Oh," she cried, stepping back with burning cheeks, "I did not mean I did not expect " "Nor did I," he said in a low voice; "chance is kinder to us than ourselves beloved." She turned quite white at the low, intense word.
That afternoon, as the Carters were sitting down to tea, Jim Hutchings arrived with a note from Mr. Hand. The man looked very uncomfortable as Ted came to the kitchen door. He said he would wait for an answer; but he surlily refused to come in. Mr. Hand's note was to Will, asking if he would be at home that evening. Will answered that he would, and would be glad to see Mr. Hand.
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