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Updated: May 3, 2025
It was like agreeing to allow the dentist to extract the tooth; it had to come anyhow in the long run, and the rest was all pretence. "Further disaster! Why, what's happened?" "For one thing the steering paddle's gone," he said quietly. "The steering paddle gone!" I repeated, greatly excited, for this was our rudder, and the Danube in flood without a rudder was suicide. "But what "
With a cry that shrieked "Leg it leg it" plain as a quack could speak and which sent the little fellows scuttling, half swim, half run, the old mother flung herself over on her back not a paddle's length ahead of us, dipped, dived, came up again just at our bow and flopped broken-winged over the water ahead of us near enough almost to be caught by hand; but when you stretched out your hand, the crafty lady dipped and dived and came up broken-winged again.
It was like agreeing to allow the dentist to extract the tooth; it had to come anyhow in the long run, and the rest was all pretense. "Further disaster! Why, what's happened?" "For one thing the steering paddle's gone," he said quietly. "The steering paddle gone!" I repeated, greatly excited, for this was our rudder, and the Danube in flood without a rudder was suicide. "But what "
"I have told you, Dan, that I can never marry any one; and that must be the end of it." "But your work can go on " he began, ready for another assault upon that barrier. A sailboat loitering in the light wind had stolen close upon them, and passed hardly a paddle's length away.
A white man named T , completely overpowered by his fears, refused to fire on the savages, who were within a paddle's length of him, but stood up in the canoe, with a loaded musket in his hand, beseeching them by his gestures to take him prisoner, rather than deprive him of his life.
"See if the paddle's anywhere around," Bert said. His voice was awful funny sharp kind of, as if he meant business. "What do you want that for?" I asked him, all excited. "Look and see do as I tell you," he just said. It was in the smashed canoe and I just stood there holding it. "What'll I do with it?" I asked him. "Just hold it," he said.
It came, disclosing the other boat only a few canoe lengths away. Maria and Francisco paddled cautiously; the lightning flashes were frequent, as if the storm was about to break, and the two boats could see one another constantly. "What's the matter here?" demanded Mr. Adams, as Maria and Francisco held the dug-out a paddle's distance from the stranger boat.
Silently he drifted down the muddy waters of the Ugambi, occasionally dipping his paddle's blade gently into the current that he might guide his primitive craft to the vessel's side. As he approached more closely the dark bulk of a ship loomed before him out of the blackness of the night. No sound came from the vessel's deck. Paulvitch drifted, unseen, close to the Kincaid's side.
"And I feel as fresh as though I had slept for a week," declared Philip, his eyes devouring the slim figure a paddle's length in front of him. For an hour they continued up the river, with scarcely a word between them to break the silence.
Now and then an oar splashed or the water gave back the echo of a paddle's dip, but little else was heard. All looked straight ahead. Suddenly they saw in the middle of the bayou, about a hundred yards before them, a small, black shape, so low that it seemed to blend with the water.
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