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Updated: May 20, 2025
A year ago women had played bridge at this hour in the afternoon, but there was no playing now. "Don't tell Dad that I am here. I'll come back presently with Mrs. Drake." And now down the hall came an old gray dog, wild with delight, outracing Polly Ann, who thought it was a play and leaped after him Muffin had found his master!
"But Ab is taller and stronger," Moonface continued, and Lightfoot assented as indifferently, for, somehow, of the two she had remembered definitely one only. She became daring in her reflections: "What if he should want to carry me to his cave?" and then she tried to run away from the thought and from anything and everybody else, leaping forward, outracing and leaving all the company.
He saw, he felt, he heard, he thought; feeling and sense were quickened in him as they had never been before, yet he never slackened his pace save once or twice, when he paused for breath; he ran as swiftly, he ran as keenly, as ever stag or fox had run before him; doubling with their skill, taking the shadow as they took the covert; noting with their rapid eye the safest track; outracing with their rapid speed the pursuit that thundered in his wake.
It had been ten chronometer hours since they had eaten, but since they had been outracing light, they were now thirty thousand years in Earth's past. The weightlessness of free fall makes it difficult to recognize normally familiar sensations, and the feeling of hunger is one of them.
"We spur to a land of no name, outracing the storm wind; We leap to the infinite dark, like the sparks from the anvil. Thou leadest, O God: all's well with Thy troopers that follow." Dazzled by the sudden blaze of light, the girls stood as if petrified. All they could see at first was a tall figure dressed in what seemed to be a long black gown, and wearing a cap on its head.
He kept his seat; he dodged the snags; he pulled the maddened horse the shortest way, he kept the King running straight. No horse had ever run so magnificent a race! Wildfire was outracing wind and fire, and he was overhauling the most noted racer of the uplands against a tremendous handicap. But now he was no longer racing to kill the King; he was running in terror.
"Gives her something to do cleaning up after Willy-Willys," he growled further, and in desperation took to outracing Willy-Willys "so the missus 'ull have a bit of time for pitching," and was drawn into the wood-heap gossip, until Jack provided a little incidental entertainment in the handling of a "kicker."
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