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He then jerked them into the shape of a triangle, and ordered us inside of the barricade. All this was but the work of a few moments, yet it was not done any too soon, for the Indians had got within three hundred yards of us, and were still advancing, and uttering their demoniacal yells or war-whoops. There were forty of the red-skins and only three of us.
The man turned, and stared at her blankly, and she saw that his face was distorted into a set expression of pain. "Arm busted," he said, after a moment, as if surprised by her question; and then renewed his watch. "How did it happen?" she asked. "Throwed me." "You don't mean you tried to ride him!" "Jerked me. Th' man ain't born't c'n ride 'im." "You were leading him?"
He was certainly not much troubled with squeamishness either; for while operating upon the body of the sergeant, he discovered upon one of the fingers a ring, which, being unable to remove, he without hesitation drew his keen blade across the member, severing it from the body at a single stroke; he then removed the ring, dropped it coolly into his pouch, and jauntily jerked the dismembered finger in among the shrubs by the roadside.
It did seem too bad that when she wanted to go with them and tried so hard to please them, that they so often wished her to stay in the house and play by herself. That is, Nelson did. "Hang on," said Nelson now, and away went the two fire horses, pulling the fire engine. Ruth nearly fell off when they started, for they jerked the sled, but she managed to hold on.
Carey whirled in his chair, jerked open a drawer in his desk and reached his hand inside. Before he could withdraw it Bob McGraw's big automatic was covering him. "Take your hand out of that drawer Boston. Out, you dog, or I'll drill you!" Carey's hand came out of the drawer slowly, very slowly, grasping a small pearl-handled revolver.
Even to that hot gust Sinclair jerked his bandanna knot aside and opened his throat gratefully. He felt as if he had been under a hard nervous strain for some time past. Cold Feet, the craven, the weak of hand and the frail of spirit, had tested him in a new way. He had been confronting a novel and unaccountable thing.
He lit up gratefully, waving out the match and hesitating for a spot to dispose of it. She reached across the table, palm up. "Give me." He caught her hand. "Lilly!" She jerked back with a little clicky catch of breath. "Don't." "Lilly, you're maddening! Lilly, can't you see what I haven't the words to tell you? For years since that night at the Waldorf I I have been living for this moment.
"This way ," her companion's sudden turn was to the left and Varta was quick to follow him down a slide of rock. Lur's instinct was right, as it ever was. There was water before them, a small lake of it. But even as he dipped his fanged muzzle toward that inviting surface, Lur's spined head jerked erect again. Varta snatched back the hand she had put out, staring at Lur's strange actions.
And he drew her very close and kissed her lips. "Good-bye." He disengaged himself from her arms and looked again in time to see that the rear of the column had just passed him. Then he rose and leaped quickly and silently from the jungle. Suddenly von Schoenvorts felt an arm thrown about his neck and his pistol jerked from its holster.
"Well, you ought to know if anybody does," said Dan with a facetious sort of affectation of agreement, which left no doubt of his insincerity. "I wish," Sir George continued, addressing Beth, "you would let me show some of your work to a lady, a friend of mine, whose opinion is well worth having." "I would rather have yours," Beth jerked out. "Oh, mine is no good," he rejoined.
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