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One chief idea now whirled in his brain, which was, that the lad must have a charmed life; he had floated out to the Nab buoy and back again, and now he had had a pistol-bullet passed through his scull without injury. He felt too much fear to attempt anything against him for the future, but his desire to do so was stronger than ever.
Ten to one, men, if you go ashore, you will get into some infernal row, and that will be the end of you; for if these tattooed scoundrels get you a little ways back into their valleys, they’ll nab you—that you may be certain of. Plenty of white men have gone ashore here and never been seen any more.
You know there is an old proverb, 'The sheep has a golden hoof. They save me the trouble of ploughing. I haven't ploughed my orchard for ten years, and don't expect to plough it for ten years more. Then your Aunt Hattie's hens are so obliging that they keep me from the worry of finding ticks at shearing time. All the year round, I let them run among the sheep, and they nab every tick they see."
Cacosotte, yawning, rubbed his one eye, and groped his way to a slumber-rug in "Heaven." Then Mex put her brown hand timidly on the shoulder of Palafox. "One in woods not nab no! no!" she said, shaking her head violently and frowning. "What you jabbering about now? Don't you see I'm busy?" "Woman through window not big Mex look so!" She wrinkled her features, and shrank down mimicking a dwarf.
But, at the same time, Mr Vanslyperken had made up his mind that a lad who could be floated out to the Nab buoy and back again without sinking who could have a bullet through his head without a mark remaining and who could swallow a whole twopenny-worth of arsenic without feeling more than a twinge in his stomach, was not so very easy to be made away with.
It's blood!" and blood it proved to be there and thereafter, down the opposite bank. Yet not a drop was seen on the sands where Willett fell. Then his assailants had not escaped unscathed. Unarmed as he was, the officer had made a desperate fight for life. "Now's the time to nab him!" said Turner, as he carried the report to Archer.
"Why so?" asked Ned. "Because there's a bad storm coming up. I shouldn't want to risk it. We'll keep near shore. We can nab them there as good as over the lake." This plan was adopted, and as soon as they reached the great body of water the last in the chain of the Great Lakes Tom cruised about, he and Ned watching through powerful night glasses for a glimpse of another airship.
"What was that?" "The front door must have been found duly barred and bolted in the morning, and yet we let them assume that we came out that way. Nab would have pounced on the point, and by this time we might have been nabbed ourselves." It was but a little over a hundred sovereigns that Raffles had taken, and, of course, he had resolutely eschewed any and every form of paper money.
I know I know, I tell you because I feared for his safety, and when he went to his room I locked him in!" "Superintendent!" The word was voiced by every man present, and six pairs of eyes turned toward Narkom with a look of despairing comprehension. "Get to the cellar. Head the man off! It's he the Cracksman!" he shouted out. "Find him! Get him! Nab him, if you have to turn the house upside down!"
"Ay, how can you ken?" some demanded. "It's enough that I do ken," the Egyptian answered. "And this mair I ken, that the captain of the soldiers is confident he'll nab every one o' you that's wanted anless you do one thing." "What is 't?" "If you a' run different ways you're lost, but if you keep thegither you'll be able to force a road into the country, whaur you can scatter.
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