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Conniston reeled, and before he could catch himself a second blow caught him under the ear, and with outflung arms he pitched backward and fell, striking the back of his head upon the rough boards of the floor. For one dizzy moment the world went black for him. And then it went red, flaming, flaring red, as he heard a man's laugh.
Could it be that it was lying there yet, that awful, still thing, lying as he remembered it, as he could see it now, its ghastly features hidden among the leaves that rotted, its long arms outflung and strong hands griped among the grass with clutching fingers could it be? "Arthur boy what's the matter?" Spike started and looked up to find Hermione beside him, and instinctively he shrank away.
I cannot understand; my brain is on fire. But that would be better yes, yes! Do that. I I am not afraid of him." He caught her outflung hand firmly within his own grasp. She shuddered, as if the contact were painful, yet made no effort to escape, her eyes widening as she looked at him. "No, I will not go one step without you."
Barry picked out the cove indicated, immediately opposite the flaming creek, hidden from riverwards by an outflung, bush-capped hummock of earth. There the launch was moored, and the last trace of fire danger was beaten out with wet grasses and leafy branches.
Often at nights, especially after there had been a quarrel, he stole away from his sketching to the room where she slept with the baby by her side and lightly kissed her hair or an outflung arm. Then the old tender protective impulse swept over him; he wished he were the sort of man that could give her all the things she wanted, thinking that the way to prove a love. Then a "chance" came.
Immediately beneath the brink of the chasm the ground dropped vertically for a few feet, but below that again it sloped gradually outwards, culminating in a broad, projecting ledge which formed the lip of the actual precipice itself. Tony lay on the ledge, motionless, with outflung arms and white, upturned face.
It was Sylvia's face, white and agonized, that confronted him Sylvia's voice, but so strained that he hardly recognized it, broken and beseeching, imploring him for mercy. "Oh, Burke for God's sake don't kill him! Don't kill him! I will kill myself I swear if you do." He caught the outflung hands, gripping them hard, assuring himself that this thing was no illusion.
To her flashed a memory of this man, her other-time employer keen and smooth-shaven, alert, well-dressed, self-centered, dominant, the master of a hundred complex problems, the directing mind of engineering works innumerable. Faltering and uncertain now he stood there. Then, at the sound of the girl's voice, he staggered toward her with outflung hands. He stopped, and for a moment stared at her.
The slapping of the wind against the tent awakened Beatrice. She could hear it soughing gently through the branches of the live oaks. An outflung arm discovered Clay missing. Presently she rose, sleep not yet brushed fully from her eyes, drew the tent flaps together modestly under her chin, and looked out upon a world which swam in the enchanted light of a dawn primeval.
"Well, boys, this is a nice little party, but I got to get up at three o'clock to-morrow afternoon, and I need the sleep. Oh, how I love my morning sleep!" She drew back, her bare outflung arm pushing her from the table. "If you'll call me and my room-mate a taxi " "No, you don't, Jingle Bells!" He placed a hand that trembled slightly on the sleeved part of her arm.
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