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Updated: June 10, 2025
Still the father smiled silently. The ticket collector stepped back into the first-class car and returned with the train guard, a boyish-looking fellow in peon garb from hat to legging trousers, with a brilliant red tie, two belts of enormous cartridges about his waist, in his hand a short ugly rifle, and a harmless smile on his face.
Then in his infantile way he shouted: "I didn't want any of you to know anything about it." "Why?" I asked. "Because I didn't." "But I suppose you wanted to go to Persia?" He paused in his lumbering walk about the little room and collecting a litter of books and papers and a hat or two and a legging from a sofa, pitched it into a corner. "Here. Sit down."
Mother shrieked, too, and we all rushed to the door to see one of the prettiest chases you'd want to look at, with old Kate handing out the side wipes every time he could get near one of the dogs. They fled down over the creek bank and a minute later we could see the pack legging it up the other side to beat the cars, losing Kate I guess because he didn't like to get his hide wet.
"Legging it to the Northward at the rate of knots eight points off his course, if he thinks he's going to get anywhere near us ... Ah! Now he's coming round.... Humph! You're getting warm, my lad!" Another prolonged silence followed, and suddenly the Lieutenant-Commander spoke again. "Sub," he said in a curiously restrained tone, "just come here a minute."
She ran straight to the American boy, flung her arms around his legging, rubbed her cheek against his trousers and patted his knee with her little hands.
Cries, groans, and curses rose and were drowned in the thunder of the charging horses and the clashing of weapons. "Spy!" screamed a voice in his ear. Gethryn turned, but the fellow was legging it for safety. Suddenly he saw a woman who, pushed and crowded by the mob, stumbled and fell.
"One of them committed a small forgery, I think he forged the captain's order for some boots. He expected to get 'legged, and get out of the army, but he has been sucked in. They only gave him a few months' imprisonment, and he will have to go back to his regiment again when his time's up. His brother's now at Chatham, doing a four years 'legging, but he hasn't to go back again to the army.
I went round in eighty-six the other day." Reggie sighed enviously. "Women are wonderful!" he said. "Well, I'll be legging it and fetching the car. When you're ready, stroll along down the road and wait for me." When he had gone Maud pulled a small newspaper clipping from her pocket. She had extracted it from yesterday's copy of the Morning Post's society column.
At this point Tchort, the dog, caught the scent, broke away, and raced down over the bluff out of sight. Almost immediately the bear appeared in the open 200 yards away, legging as fast as he could in the snow, and headed for the hillside. Merriam made a good shot behind the shoulder with his fifty.
"I bet, by the time we were in our taxi, that woman was out of this, and legging it as fast as she could go. She wouldn't have taken a cab, for fear of being traced," Clo finished her reflections. She stared at the pearl in her hand. "Awkward for me if Kit gets to the man at the other end while her double chats to him at the Westmorland!" the girl thought, and flew back to the telephone.
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