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Just as the nose of their boat scraped the floe the great "killer" charged. Frank had just time to spring onto the floe and drag Harry after him when the monster's head rammed the boat, splitting it to kindling wood with a terrible crackling sound. The stout timbers might as well have been a matchbox, so far as resistance to the terrific onslaught was concerned.
There was a gold watch, for one thing, with a chain and locket; there was a silver pencil, and a matchbox, and a handful of small change, and finally a cardcase. This last Duane opened feverishly there were letters and checks, and two theater-tickets, and at last, in the back part, a wad of bills. He counted them there was a twenty, five tens, four fives, and three ones. Duane drew a long breath.
"His decks are as bare as the back of my hand; there is not enough bulwark left standing to make a matchbox out of nothing but the stumps of a few staunchions here and there.
"Now, see here, you!" said M'Ginnis, his words coming thick with passion. "I wanter know, first, where Spike is. And then I wanter know who you are. And then I wanter know what you're after in Hermy Chesterton's flat and you're sure goin' t' tell me!" "Am I?" "You sure are!" Mr. Ravenslee opened the matchbox. "Seems a pity to shake a confidence so sublime," he sighed. "And yet "
I wish Mary saw the pair of us coming up on to it like new-born stags!" Had Mary seen him and "Matchbox" a moment later, emerging separately from a hole in mid stream, her respect might not have prevented her from laughing, but the fact remains that the pair got across somehow. At the top of the hill beyond the river Dinny Johnny saw the hounds for the first time.
For twenty minutes or so he had been thinking rather than dreaming, yet with his thought held captive by sleep. He reached for his matchbox and struck a light. . . . The whole world was after him, hunting him down, tearing down the house above his head! . . . Well, he would go down with the house.
Luckily for me and the driver, we were flung right over the smash into the gutter, for the big, heavy van ran into the fallen hansom, crushed it like a matchbox, and killed the horse. Had the window been closed well, it wasn't, so there is no need for romancing." Poor Nellie clung to her lover as if to assure herself that he was really uninjured. "Did you see your assailant clearly?"
"Poison!" gasped Dinny Johnny, falling down at full length on the grass, "the wood's poisoned!" When they went back to look for "Matchbox" she was still lying in the bohireen. Her bridle had vanished, and so had the pursuing countrymen. Mary O'Grady's saddle was broken, and could never be used again, and no more could "Matchbox," because she had broken her neck.
"My dear Dorian," answered Lord Henry, taking a cigarette from his case and producing a gold-latten matchbox, "the only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. If you had married this girl, you would have been wretched. Of course, you would have treated her kindly. One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
The black shadow had sprung back to its place. "By Jove," said I aloud, recovering from my surprise, "that draft's a strong one;" and taking the matchbox from^he table, I walked across the room in a leisurely manner to relight the corner again. My first match would not strike, and as I succeeded with the second, something seemed to blink on the wall before me.
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