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And if his best was never very good, at least his references to Mocassin brought down the house. "She is something moa than the best steeplechaser that ever looked through a bridle-ah," he announced in his somewhat portentous way. "She is in my judgment the realization of a dream. In her have met once more the two great streams of the Anglo-Saxon race.
Lu caught two fowls, and when the sea rose took them with him into the vessel. He was not many days afloat, some say six, when his vessel rested on the top of the mountain called Malata, in Atua, east end of Upolu. Lu lived there at the village called Uafato, and had there his Sa Moa, or preserve fowls, which were not to be killed.
A glance passed between Miko and his sister. Miko said abruptly, "You seem to realize it is not my purpose to kill you. And you presume upon it." "I shall not again." I eyed Moa. She was gazing at me steadily. She said, "Leave me with him, Miko...." She smiled. "Gregg Haljan, we are no more than twenty thousand miles from the asteroid now. The calculations for retarding are now in operation."
I stood quivering, and Moa thrust her weapon against my face. The grids were swaying again with a message from Grantline. But it was ignored. In the glare of moonlight by the forward window, Miko held Anita, his great hands pawing her with triumphant possessive caresses. "So, little Anita, you are given back to me!" Moonlight upon Earth so gently shines to make romantic a lover's smile!
For a youngster scarcely ten inches high, and with so few early advantages as he doubtless had had, Moa Artua was certainly a precocious little fellow if he really said all that was imputed to him; but for what reason this poor devil of a deity, thus cuffed about, cajoled, and shut up in a box, was held in greater estimation than the full-grown and dignified personages of the Taboo Groves, I cannot divine.
He stood there, with Rankin, Moa and George Prince crowding him. He saw me. "You, Gregg Haljan!" He came leaping at me. I was taken wholly by surprise. There was an instant when I stood numbed, fumbling for a weapon at my belt, undecided whether to run or stand my ground. Miko was no more than twenty feet from me. He checked his forward rush.
And I shall not care if you tell me of anything that's out of the way in my talking," said Clementina, generously. "Thank you; I think I won't wait any longer for Mr. Fane." "Why, I'm su'a he'll be back very soon, now. I'll try not to disturb you any moa." Gregory turned from taking some steps towards the door, and said, "I wish you would tell Mr. Fane something." "For you? Why, suttainly!" "No.
"I want you should take this for youaself; and if you don't want to buy anything to wea', you can get something to fix your room up with. Don't you be afraid of robbin' us. Land! We got moa money! Now you take this." Mrs. Lander reached the money as far toward Clementina as she could and shook it in the vehemence of her desire. "Thank you, I couldn't take it," Clementina persisted.
Beside Anita, stretched face down on the turret grid, was the giant figure of Miko. The blood lay in a small pool against his face. A widening pool. Moa was here. I thought her body twitched; then was still. This soundless wreckage! In the dim glow of the wrecked turret with its two motionless, broken human figures, it seemed as though Anita and I were ghouls prowling.
A complete skeleton of the Moa bird is to be seen in the British Museum. I had now obtained a fresh contract for making cuttings, draining swamps, and bridging over some ten miles in the Lower Ashburton gorge and Valley, and I was busily engaged all the summer and autumn.
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