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Updated: June 28, 2025
And, in contemplating the spectacle, I seemed actually to be able to hear the cruel, hissing din of combat between red and black, and to see pale, frightened rabbits scudding from underneath the roots of trees amid showers of sparks, and panting, half-suffocated birds fluttering wildly amid the branches as further and further afield, and more and more triumphantly, the scarlet dragon unfurled its wings, and consumed the darkness, and devoured the rain-soaked timber.
He ascertained his surrounding was a thicket, and was about to make his way into its labyrinthine density, step by step; for the way was difficult, when there was a tramping of horses' hoofs upon the rain-soaked road that appeared to be in close proximity.
So he left the poor Cloth Dog, without any tail, alone on the kitchen shelf, but he took the China Cat away with him in his pocket, the policeman did. Out into the rain-soaked street the officer made his way once more. "Nobody left in here, Jim," he called to the other officer on the police wagon. "Get those people to the station, and then come back.
The word of command rang out clearly and distinctly through the rain-soaked atmosphere. Deroulede threw up his head and listened. Something strange and unaccountable in that same word of command had struck his sensitive ear. Yet the party had halted, and there was a click as of bayonets or muskets levelled ready to fire. All had happened in less than a few seconds.
On one side was the Park, and there was obscurity indefinable, mysterious; on the other a long row of tall mansions, a rain-soaked pavement, and a curving line of gas lamps. Beyond, the river, marked with a glittering arc of yellow dots; further away the glow of the sleeping city. Shelter enough there for any one even for her.
Priscilla treated this outburst with the silence it deserved, and Patty turned back to her perusal of the rain-soaked campus. "I wish something would happen," she said discontentedly. "I think I'll put on a mackintosh and go out in search of adventure." "Pneumonia will happen if you do." "What business has it to be raining, anyway, when it ought to be snowing?"
But without delay he opened the drawer of the table and feeling for his box of cartridges found that the thieves had overlooked it. This he slipped into his pocket with a feeling of relief, and, as he sat, rain-soaked and with the water dripping from his hair, he reloaded his revolver and made such preparations as he could to barricade the inner door and wait for the passing of the storm.
The gate creaked and groaned on its rusty hinges; then we were walking up a weedy, rain-soaked path where untrimmed branches slapped viciously at our faces, and tough brambles, like snares and gins, tried to catch our feet. On each side was a jungle. Of a sudden the path turned, widened into a fairly cleared space; and Hynds House was before us.
If he had, he might have felt pity for the young man who leaned heavily against the gate, his burning face pressed upon his rain-soaked sleeve. When Courtlandt knocked at the door and was admitted, he apologized. "I came back for my umbrella." "Umbrella!" exclaimed the padre. "Why, we had no umbrellas.
There, clearly marked, was a line of footprints, a single line, with no breaks or imperfections, the plain record on the rain-soaked earth that one person, evidently a man, had passed this way, going out. "I'll send the dog first," said M. Paul. "Here, Caesar! Cherche!"
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