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I had not counted on the policeman's aid, but I was thankful to accept the honest offer. In the restaurant I found five of my men, and with this force I thought that I might safely attempt an assault on the Den. The Den was a low, two-story building of brick, with a warehouse below, and the quarters of the enemy, approached by a narrow stairway, above.
"What you going to do with him now you have got him?" asked the taller of the two boys. "Dunno," said the other, shrugging his shoulders. "No use expecting mother to let me keep him in quarters, and the C. O. won't have 'em around the hangars. I guess I will have to give him back to Lee and let him get rid of him." "What does C. O. mean, and who is Lee?" asked the first boy.
His quarters were at a French farmhouse in the camp at Montmorenci; and here, as he lay in an upper chamber, helpless in bed, his singular and most unmilitary features haggard with disease and drawn with pain, no man could less have looked the hero.
Every night these Skipetars who could cross the moat betook themselves to Kursheed's quarters. One single man yet baffled all the efforts of the besiegers. The chief engineer, Caretto, like another Archimedes, still carried terror into the midst of their camp.
Frost, opening a door at the head of the front stairs. It was a large square room, occupying the front eastern corner of the house. The furniture was neat and comfortable, though not pretentious. "I like this," said the young man, surveying his new quarters with an air of satisfaction. "The sun will find me out in the morning." "Yes, it will remain with you through the forenoon.
"I have no desire to get away," answered Arundel; "nor understand I how it can advantage thee, seeing that, sooner or later, thou art tolerably certain of being made prisoner again." "Nevertheless, there is a chance of better things; and I say once more I like not the thoughts of the close quarters they intend for us.
The confusion of landing, the custom-house, the strange quarters in the great hotel all composed a drop-curtain shutting off the ocean scene, and ending thus an episode of their life-drama. A new act was beginning for them, and they both knew how much might depend on the way in which it was begun, and neither dared plan how it should end.
She furthermore fixed upon an early hour of the following day to convene the domestics and their wives in the mansion, in order that they should receive their orders; but, after cursorily glancing over the number of entries in the list, and making a few inquiries of Lai Sheng's wife, she soon got into her curricle, and went home. On the next day, at six and two quarters, she speedily came over.
They have bound upon us a burden too heavy to be borne; we are shifting it. The arch never sleeps." Outside, the people in the market-place held their breath, and the stream of white dust still poured out of the side of the wounded tower. It was six o'clock; the four quarters sounded, and the hour struck.
Our eyes were now opened to the true character of the vessel, and the crew no longer had any desire to come to close quarters with her; so they put up their helm and bore away with all speed for Cadiz, the port nearest to us. "And then began a chase that I shall never forget so long as I live, sirs.
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