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But with this as a clew I figured out how two or three of the other candidates came to side-step so abrupt. The average Johnny is all right so long as the debate is confined to gossipy bits about the latest Reno recruits, or who's to be asked to Mrs. Stuyve Fish's next dinner dance; but cut loose on anything serious and you have him grabbin' for the lifeline.
Then she said: "He appears to be sort of butting in, it seems to me." Hiram waited again. "He came in and says: 'Say, Lucy, your lifeline and mine are getting tangled. You're crossing my path and frustrating my plans. You know how he talks! "'How d'ye get that way? I says. 'Spring it. "'Why, your many charms are leading my business partner from the path of duty, he says.
"Must I be drowned like a rat in a trap!" was the agonizing thought which rushed through his brain, and then he pushed along from one timber to another until the last was reached and he came up, almost overcome and panting heavily for breath. "Help! help!" he cried feebly, and presently heard his brothers answer him. Then the lifeline was thrown, but it fell short and did him no good.
Her neighbour, a little later, does better than this: while the huntress is prowling about in the neighbourhood of the funnel, she suddenly leaps out of the tube, with the lifeline which will save her from falling, should she miss her footing, attached to her spinnerets; she rushes forward and hurls herself in front of the Pompilus, at a distance of some eight inches from her burrow.
"A neche would 'a' know'd this was comin'. He'd 'a' made camp. 'Tain't a neche. Hark!" The beat of the storm seemed to drown all other sounds, and yet those two men listened. It is certain that what they heard would have been lost to most ears. Ralph rose deliberately. There was no haste, nor was there any hesitation. His intention was written on his face. "The lifeline," he said briefly.
Will you come off in the boat with me, Captain, and hand my lifeline?" "I'll borrow one of those spare dresses and share the pump with you," said Kettle. Tazzuchi was visibly startled. "What do you mean?" "I mean that the pump will give air for two, and I'm coming down with you." "But you know nothing about diving, and you might have an accident, and I should be responsible." "Oh, I'll risk that!
The lifeline had been rescued and disentangled, and the shore end of it having been taken into proper charge, a man, with the other end about him, swam to the assistance of the bathing master. Between these two another lifeless helpless body was borne in. As might have been supposed, Miss Panney was now in a state of intense agitation.
A cloud of hair came falling about the slim shoulders as the speaker bent to pass this strange lifeline to Smith; and I think it was my wonder at knowing her for the girl whom that day I had surprised in Cadby's rooms which saved my life. For I not only kept afloat, but kept my gaze upturned to that beautiful, flushed face, and my eyes fixed upon hers which were wild with fear . . . for me!
More often than not, the Spider holds fast; sometimes she is dragged out of the tube, to a distance of a few inches, but immediately returns, no doubt with the aid of her unbroken lifeline. The Pompilus' intention is plain: she wants to eject the Spider from her fortress and fling her some distance away. So much perseverance leads to success.
A cable was stretched across just below the ford as a lifeline for the weaker ones, and then the men of the entire division having secured their ammunition by placing the cartridge-boxes on their shoulders, the column pushed cheerfully into the rushing current.
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