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We shall have him then. And there will be no more killings of studs here." At dusk Running Fox slipped down to the camp, but not far enough into the circle of firelight to be sighted by any watcher in the night. Then with Drew and Anse he was off again. Within less than a quarter-hour Drew could have laughed wryly at his past satisfaction in his prowess as a scout.
He went on reading until Mr. Keppel suggested that he had forgotten the lady. "Oh," he said, carelessly, "let her wait! I'm mobbed with these people." After another quarter-hour he condescended to go down and greet her shivering ladyship. A little later during this visit a foreign artist called and was pleasantly received.
H. V. Leslie I'm much obliged for his favoring me with an appointment, but long as he's so rushed, I'll make him a present of his blessed quarter-hour." "My land, sir!" gasped the doorkeeper. "I can't take such a message to him!" "Suit yourself," said Blake, deliberately drawing a cigar from his vest pocket and biting off the tip. This time the man was gone a full half-minute.
They might pass within ten feet of one and never see it. Five, ten, twenty, thirty minutes passed; and still no sign of Tarpaulin. The wind was becoming stronger, the waves higher; their rushing was now loud enough to drown the sound of any surf that might be breaking on the ledges of the island. Percy rowed for a quarter-hour longer, dread plucking at his heart-strings.
He had gone home resolved from that moment to save his money, and be something more than he was. But that event had flashed before his eyes, and in a quarter-hour was gone, save in his memory. The coming of the schoolmaster, all unforeseen, had lasted a day, and he had seen it from beginning to end.
Toward night, the quarter-hour of level sun-glare which prevented her seeing the road. Dusk, and the discovery of how much light there was after all, once she remembered to take off her glasses. The worst quarter-hour when, though the roads were an amethyst rich to the artist, they were also a murkiness exasperating to the driver, yet still too light to be thrown into relief by the lamps.
A quarter-hour had passed before they reached shelter again. Allan bade the Merucaans heap dry wood on the embers in the cavern, while he himself laid Beatrice upon the bed. With a piece of their brown cloth dipped in one of the water-jars he bathed her face and bruised throat. "Fresh water! Fetch a jar of fresh water from the river below!" he commanded Zangamon.
Again, on the retreat from Mons Sir Douglas said, "We must stay here for the present, if we all die for it," stating this military necessity as coolly as if it merely meant waiting another quarter-hour for the arrival of a guest to dinner. No less than General Joffre, Sir Douglas lived by rule. He, too, insisted on sleeping well at night and rising fresh for his day's work.
Suddenly his eyes riveted themselves on the middle panel of the door. Brady had intended his color scheme to be old ivory the panel itself was nearly white and on it Shan Tung had written heavily with a lead pencil the hour of his presence, "10.45 P.M." Keith's amazement found voice in a low exclamation. He looked at his watch. It was a quarter-hour after twelve.
In a quarter-hour more, her stacks had fallen overboard and the hulk lay consumed half to the water-line. The arrival of the four visitors at Tallwoods, and their departure so soon thereafter, were events of course not unknown to Josephine, but only conjecture could exist in her mind as to the real nature of the errand in either case. Jeanne, her maid, speculated as to this openly.
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