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She gave a strained little laugh. "I didn't wait to get a description of him. Didn't you boys recognize him?" After Phil's answer she breathed freer. "We did not get near enough, though Brill got two shots at him as he pulled out. He was going hell-for-leather and Brill missed both times." He lowered his voice and asked angrily: "What's he doing here?"
He wants to be a wicked, hell-for-leather fellow, but he hasn't got the stomach for it! What did Cecily say when I didn't turn up?" "She looked rather cross. She told me as we came away to tell you she was angry with you. You're to go and apologise to her as soon as possible!" "Did she?" "Yes. I say, Gilbert, why didn't you turn up?"
He went hell-for-leather over a piece of ground which was being watered with H.E., but by the mercy of heaven nothing hit him. He took some fearsome tosses in shell-holes, but partly erect and partly on all fours he did the fifty yards and tumbled into a Turkish trench right on top of a dead man. The contact with that body brought him to his senses.
Here, Gaddy, take the chit to Bingle and ride hell-for-leather. It'll do you good. I can't go. JUNIOR CHAPLAIN. Do him good! Let him lie down. Your horse is blocking my cart please! On paper if you like. Turn in, Gadsby, and I'll bring Bingle back ahem 'hell-for-leather. He can drive too. I shouldn't care to go that pace in a bamboo cart. What a faith he must have in his Maker of harness!
Banking around! We may catch a burst of machine-gun fire, in a minute. Or, no she's coming up on our tail, Major. I think she's going to try and board us!" "You going to let her?" protestingly demanded Bohannan. His hand twitched against the butt of the Lewis. "In two seconds I could sight an aft gun, sir, and blow that machine Hell-for-leather!"
Finding, however, that she could not rid herself of Forrester by the same methods which had proved easily successful with the stable lads at White Windows, she uttered a squeal of rage, laid back her ears, and bolted hell-for-leather across the downs. This proved altogether too much for Dick Turpin's composure.
I hope he'll scratch the bridle off, and roll on the saddle till it's not worth a cuss. I say if Martin should find his way here before the fellows get clear, will you just tell him I fancied I saw his horse going for the Connelly paddock, and I shot after him hell-for-leather. No message for Mrs. Beaudesart? Well, so long."
"Two fellows comin' hell-for-leather across the valley," he said in a voice that expressed his fears. The cattleman took the glasses and looked. "Shorty's found a friend. Dug Doble likely. They're carryin' rifles. We'll have trouble. They'll see we stopped at the haid of the pass," he said quietly. Much shaken already, the oil prospector collapsed at the prospect before him.
In spite of his boldness, of the dominating imperiousness by means of which he had been used to ride roughshod over lesser men, Houck felt a chill sensation at his heart. They were too quiet too quiet by half. "We was to have been married to-day," he said surlily. "This Dillon boy got her to run off with him. He was no good. I rode hell-for-leather into town to head 'em off."
Just before the shell fire our burghers had gone out ahead hell-for-leather on either flank. The whole column then advanced. After two hours' pretty hot work the action was over. We lost six killed against the rebels' twenty-two, and with twenty wounded on our side the rebel losses were proportionate. We took upwards of three hundred prisoners, De Wet himself escaping by the merest fluke.
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