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He had a line or two rigged up to help him across the widest spaces Long John's earrings they were called; and he would hand himself from one place to another, now using the crutch, now trailing it alongside by the lanyard, as quickly as another man could walk. Yet some of the men who had sailed with him before expressed their pity to see him so reduced.
And God only knows what'll follow in. 'He travels the fastest that travels alone' is a true saying, but 'tis only half the truth: he travels the farthest into the bargain.... Yet the Lonesome Road has its drawbacks, lad it's damned lonely!" Bourke died in Switzerland, of consumption, in the winter of 1910 Lanyard at his side till the end.
"Didn't it strike you as odd she should wish to be left alone with Lieutenant Thackeray?" "It was not my affair, monsieur. It was her wish." "Excuse me, cap'n." Crane sat up. "I'd like to ask Mr. Lanyard a question." But Lanyard had prepared himself against that, and acknowledged the touch with a quiet smile and the hint of a bow. "Monsieur Crane...."
As he arrived at the top of steps, Collison announced: "It's all right. She's coming to." Supported in the arms of the second mate, Liane was beginning to breathe deeply and looking round with dazed eyes. Lanyard dropped on a knee and set the glass to her lips. She gulped twice, mechanically, her gaze fixed to his face.
Instantly, from lounging against the desk, Lanyard straightened up: and the heavy humidor of brass and mahogany, on which his right hand had been resting, seemed fairly to leap from its place as, with a sweep of his arm, he sent it spinning point-blank at the younger sergent.
After some forty minutes of this it may have been an hour, for time was then an incalculable thing Lanyard, in a mood of abnormal sensitiveness, began to divine additional disquiet in the mind of the aviator, and stared until he caught his eye. "What is it?" he screamed in futile effort to lift his voice above the din.
"It should be enough," Lanyard ventured boldly, "to know that I set off that flare as arranged, at risk of my life." "How came you overboard?" "In the scuffle caused by my lighting the flare." "So you tell me. But we found you half clothed, lacking any sort of identification. Am I to accept your unsupported word?"
As to that, one had really hoped for no better issue; but every shift is worth trial till proved worthless; and he was no worse off now than if he had submitted without complaint. Still one had Chance to look to for aid and comfort in this stress; and Chance, the jade, is not always unkind to her audacious suitors. Even now she flashed upon Lanyard a provoking intimation of her smile.
"This man is tall and slender." "Wertheimer, possibly. Does he suggest an Englishman, any way?" "Not in the least. He wears a moustache blond twisted up like the Kaiser's." Lanyard made no reply; but his heart sank, and he shivered imperceptibly with foreboding. He entertained no doubt but that the worst had happened, that to the number of his enemies in Paris was added Ekstrom.
"I don't mind telling you now, that's precisely what I am afraid of." "Nonsense!" the girl cried in open contempt. "What could they do?" "Please don't ask me," Lanyard begged seriously. "I might try to tell you." "But don't worry, my dear!" Fugitively her hand touched his. "We're ready." It was true enough: Ducroy was moving impressively back toward them.
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