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'Bister Sikes! exclaimed Barney, with real or counterfeit joy; 'cub id, sir; cub id. 'Here! you get on first, said Sikes, putting Oliver in front of him. 'Quicker! or I shall tread upon your heels.
And MacRae went after them. Wherever a Folly Bay collector went either the Blanco or the Bluebird was on his heels. MacRae could cover more ground and carry more cargo, and keep it fresh, than any mustard pot. The Bluebird covered little outlying nooks, the stragglers, the rowboat men in their beach camps.
And now a surprising thing happened. First, Bill Rogers, wanted for stage robbery and murder, took to his heels and sped down the street. Then Benson wriggled under the policeman's grasp, and by some lightning-like trick of jiu jitsu, sent him sprawling on his back, his limbs waving in the air like the legs of a turtle similarly upset. Then Benson started after Rogers.
She had thrust her bare feet into white slippers without heels, and now she drew up her legs lightly and easily and crossed them under her, assuming an Eastern attitude and the expression of supreme impassivity which suits it. A long mirror was just opposite to her. She swayed to and fro, looking into it. "Allah-Akbar!" she murmured. "Allah-Akbar! I am a fatalist.
"Seems to me, gentlemen," he said, "there's something queer about the whole business. Barraclough was known to be starting tonight and instead you succeed in laying him by the heels." "What's wrong with that?" "Nothing except that it was all so infernally easy. Then again the fellow seems in such high spirits." Van Diest wrinkled his forehead and nodded at this but Hipps waved it aside.
Out of the car stepped a girl a very young girl to be traveling alone. She was dressed in extreme fashion, but very cheaply. Her hair was bobbed and she wore a Russian blouse of cheap silk. Her skirt was very narrow, her cloth boots very high, and the heels of them were like those of Jananese clogs. What with the skimpy skirt and the high heels she could scarcely walk.
He says: "My knapsack brought my head down first, and I pitched into some rocks about a dozen feet below; they caught something, and tumbled me off the edge, head over heels, into the gully; the baton was dashed from my hands, and I whirled downward in a series of bounds, each longer than the last; now over ice, now into rocks, striking my head four or five times, each time with increased force.
But I think it is impossible," said Monsieur Mutuel, a spectacled, snuffy, stooping old gentleman in carpet shoes and a cloth cap with a peaked shade, a loose blue frock-coat reaching to his heels, a large limp white shirt-frill, and cravat to correspond, that is to say, white was the natural colour of his linen on Sundays, but it toned down with the week.
Natalie, with a low cry of horror, instinctively clapped her heels to her horse's ribs, and set off down the hill. Garth wheeled after her. "Oh, stay stay and help her!" she gasped. "You come first!" said Garth grimly. Mabyn, as Natalie turned, sprang after her; and running desperately, managed to cling to her stirrup.
He presently astounded the people about the stage office by leaving his horses and taking to his heels after the stage coach, vociferating: "Murder! murder! help! help! stop thief! stop thief! stop the coach! stop the coach!" "What is the matter, man?" said a constable, trying to head him.
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