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MacDavid re-lit his pipe and puffed thoughtfully awhile. "Eyah," he remarked reminiscently, "feller does run up against some swift propositions now an' again. I mind one time I was headin' home from Kananaskis, an' a bear jumped me from behind a fallen log. The lever of me rifle jammed so, all I could do was to beat it in a hurry an' I sure did hit th' high spots, you bet!
"'Oh, says I, 'Darius didn't feel called on to take you off, not after I told him who you was. You see, Mr. Williams, I says, 'Darius Baker was my partner in that wheat speculation I was tellin' you about." The Captain drew a long breath and re-lit his cigar, which had gone out. His friend pounded the settee ecstatically. "There!" he cried.
Bilton, who, emerging from the shades of the verandah and looking about her, caught sight of them and came rapidly down the garden. There was no escape. They watched her bearing down on them without a word. It was a most unpleasant moment. Mr. Twist re-lit his cigarette to give himself a countenance, but the thought of all that Mrs.
His exclamation was a vent to the emotions which the force of Steve's words had stirred. "Yes. Sure," he added a moment later. "We'll go right out after it." "We?" Steve looked up with a start. The boy's excitement had passed. He regarded his foster-father with a pair of challenging, smiling eyes that were full of humour. But the challenge was definite. He re-lit his pipe.
It was my relief, Dave Evans, one of the best pals whom it has ever been my lot to soldier with. Dave was a heavy-set man, strong as an ox; I think he could have almost felled a bull with his fist, so powerful was he. I re-lit the candle after closing the door.
I'll tell you all, gentlemen, in a moment or two." With the most provoking deliberation, the speaker re-lit his pipe, which had gone out while he was talking, and then, after a few whiffs, to assure himself that its contents had thoroughly ignited, he resumed, "No sooner had the last sound of it died away, than I heard something on the stairs." "Yes, yes."
"It took me longer than I thought, for Maguire was there." "Indeed!" said Costell, making room for Peter on the window-ledge. Peter re-lit his cigar, "Maguire promises me that Porter shall be nominated by one of his friends." "He had been trying Kennedy?" "I didn't ask." Costell smiled. "I had no business to ask you that?" "No," Peter said frankly. Both puffed their cigars for a time in silence.
Madame Lavigne crossed herself and muttered a prayer, and then she heard it again. It seemed to come from close at her feet, and feeling with her hands for she thought it might be a stray cat she found quite a large parcel, It was warm and soft, though, of course, a bit wet, and Madame Lavigne brought it in, and having closed the door and re-lit her candle, laid it on the table.
The lantern was re-lit, and Chung, who knew the way best, took it and went ahead. I still wore the soldier's dress; if met and challenged, I proposed to make it appear, as best I could, that I was making the Chinamen conduct me to one of the camps, or if I failed in this to sell my life dearly with the rifle.
As soon as he had re-lit a cigar and walked away the Trantridge people began to collect themselves from amid those who had come in from other farms, and prepared to leave in a body. Their bundles and baskets were gathered up, and half an hour later, when the clock-chime sounded a quarter past eleven, they were straggling along the lane which led up the hill towards their homes.
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