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He was strong, expert, and game to the middle of his heart. "I'll add a traitor Jesuit to my list of dead," he panted forth, rising yet again to the extremest tension of his power. As he did this Father Beret settled himself as you have seen a mighty horse do in the home stretch of a race. Both men knew that the moment had arrived for the final act in their impromptu play.
"Yes, I will surrender," replied Josiah Crabtree meekly. Yet he did not mean what he said, and as Dick came closer he gave the lad a violent shove backward, which made the elder Rover boy sit down in an easy chair rather suddenly. Then he darted into a small conservatory attached to the sitting room. "Stop!" panted Dick, catching his breath. "Tom, he is running away!"
Close on his heels followed the indomitable Jo Bumpus, who panted vehemently and perspired profusely from his unwonted exertions. "Wot an object you are," exclaimed Corrie, gazing at the hot giant with a look of mingled surprise and glee for the boy's spirit was of that nature which cannot repress a dash of fun even in the midst of anxiety and sorrow.
Most important news went to your cousin's Oh, Lord! what a fool that man is! Heard you had run away not at all surprised. Should have run away myself long before you did. Came up to London in search of you just heard you'd gone from here." "I ought to have gone yesterday," said Ida, "but they let me stay." "God bless them!" he panted. "But how pale you look and thin.
Mrs Milsom did her celebrated imitation of the Gorgon, while Margaret, lightly humming an air, picked up a weekly paper and became absorbed in it. 'Margaret, let me explain, panted Archibald. Mrs Milsom was understood to remark that she dared say. Margaret's attention was riveted by a fashion plate. 'Driving in a taximeter to the ferry this morning, resumed Archibald, 'I had an accident.
It was the work of only a moment for Kennedy to scale it and prowl across the roof to the tower, while I stood guard at the foot. "No one has been up there recently," he panted breathlessly as he rejoined me. "There isn't a sign."
And, as I went, I presently espied a caravan, and before it a fire of sticks, above which a man was bending, who, raising his head, stared at me as I approached. He was a strange-looking man, who glared at me with one eye and leered jocosely with the other; and, being spent and short of breath, I stopped, and wiping the sweat from my eyes I saw that it was blood. "How is Lewis?" I panted.
"If you've nothing better to do. There's my bus." "Oh, I say! Don't be in such a hurry. I was going to ask you" he panted "if you'd come and have just a little supper, if you wouldn't mind." "Nonsense! You know you can't afford it." "Oh, yes, I can quite well. It would be awfully kind of you."
"Twelve coffin deep," I quoted Kipling to myself, as my mind panted along Roman roads, and the Pilgrim's Way. "Why, was there a cemetery there?" asked Mrs. Norton, looking mildly interested. She, by the way, doesn't much care for ruins. She says they're so untidy.
It flashed over Clif in an instant what that meant, and Bessie Stuart heard him give a muffled exclamation of delight. For he could see a blue-uniformed figure running down the shore and waving its arms wildly. "It's Lieutenant Hernandez!" he panted. And there was a wild gleam of hope in his eyes as he realized what that meant. He might rescue them again!
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