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The others were on their feet, and not until she saw Philip lying still and white on the snow did the power of speech return to her lips. She sprang toward the dogs. "KILL! KILL! KILL!" she cried. "Hero KILL! NIPA HAO, boys! Beaver Wolf Hero Captain KILL KILL KILL!" As her own voice rang out, Lang's screams ceased, and then she saw Philip dragging himself to his knees.
"For God's sake gang oot, as lang's there twa limbs o' ye stickin' thegither." The poor fellow just managed to open the door, and fell senseless on the stones. Lord Liftore called for help, and they carried him into the saddle room, while one ran for the nearest surgeon.
She produced her purse, and showed the girl some sovereigns, then led her to the door, intimating by signs that she would give her the money if she would but open it. The girl seemed to understand, but laughed again and shook her head. "Na, na," she said. "I daurna lat ye oot sae lang's the maister's here." Hugo's coadjutors were apparently incorruptible.
And she started around the house toward the street. While Jack had been playing the pioneer of rural free delivery in Little Rivers, Pete Leddy, in the rear of Bill Lang's store, was refusing all stimulants, but indulging in an unusually large cud of tobacco. "Liquor ain't no help in drawing a bead," he explained to the loungers who followed him through the door after Jack had gone.
The party had left the restaurant hurriedly, and though they had taken the only taxicab in sight he had been able to follow them in time to find out that they were going up to Riverledge. They were now preparing to go out for a sail in one of Lang's motor-boats and he would be unable, of course, to follow them further. For the remainder of the afternoon Kennedy remained pondering the case.
"Miss Lang's here, too. Bein' so dim, an' comin' in outer the sunlight, perhaps you don't make out to see her." "She ain't had time yet to pull herself together," Mrs. Slawson inwardly noted. "But, Lord! The first cold greetings over, Claire started to retreat in the direction of the door. "Excuse me, please I promised Francie She's expecting me she's waiting "
Yince a'body was gled to see me, and wad keep me as lang's I wantit, and had aye a gud word at meeting and pairting. Noo it's a' changed, and my wark's dune." I saw fine that the man was daft, but what answer could I gie to his havers? Folk in the Callowa Glens are as kind as afore, but ill weather and auld age had put queer notions intil his heid.
Perhaps she could do something, she thought, to make her less unhappy; at any rate she could help her. "I will help you," she said, looking up at her with a smile. "It won't be so hard with two of us to see to things." Mrs. Lang's face softened a little, and a smile actually gleamed in her eyes as she glanced from the frying-pan to Jessie.
And they go to kill him!" was the incoherent way in which he began his announcement. In an hour the alarm had travelled from house to house. While the gang slept at Lang's or in their tents, a solemn cavalcade set forth quietly into the night, with rifles slung over their shoulders or lying across the pommels of their saddles, bound to rescue Jack Wingfield.
It appears that on the evening of the 26th, Sir George Colley, after mess, suddenly gave orders for a force of a little over six hundred men, consisting of detachments from no less than three different regiments, the 58th, 60th, 92d, and the Naval Brigade, to be got ready for an expedition, without revealing his plans to anybody, until late in the afternoon: and then without more ado, marched them up to the top of Majuba a great square-topped mountain to the right of, and commanding the Boer position at Lang's Nek.
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