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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Thank heaven we've got you up here, old fellow!" panted Tom Reade fervently, as Dave was hauled over the roof's edge, helping himself a little. Dave, as soon as the noose had been slipped over his head, got up on his feet, though he staggered a bit dizzily. "We must all get back up to that roof," ordered Dave, pointing to the roof down from which they had leaped a while before.
"If he's a friend of yours, miss, kindly get 'im to cheese it and get a move on. We're clearing out. There's nothing we can do. It's got too much of an 'old. In about another two ticks the roof's going to drop on us." Jill's friend came squeezing back through the opening. "Hullo! Still here?" He blinked approvingly at her through the smoke. "You're a little soldier!
One was a vivid, debonair, all-confident, magnetic individual named Talbot Ward, a merchant, promoter, speculator, whom everybody liked and trusted; the other a fair Hercules of a man, slow and powerful in everything, called Frank Munro. "Look here," said Ward, "does it strike you this roof's getting hot?" Recalled to himself, Keith immediately became aware of the fact.
For He is merciful: and many of us here remember that once upon a time we were men and women. So when men go to war God screens the sight of what they do, because He wishes to be merciful to us." "That must prevent, however, the ascent of all prayers that are made in war-time." "Why, but, of course, that is the roof's secondary purpose," replied St. Peter.
It's serious speaking I've done, and serious thinking. But there's nae harm if I crack a bit joke noo and again; it makes the medicine gae doon the easier. And noo the medicine's swallowed. There's nae mair fichting tae be done, thank God! We've saved the hoose our ancestors built. But its walls are crackit here and there. The roof's leaking. There's paint needed on all sides.
"Your father was in there once," remarked Cap'n Bill, "an' he says it's the biggest cave on the coast, but low down. It's full o' water, an' the water's deep down to the very bottom o' the ocean; but the rock roof's liable to bump your head at high tide ." "It's low tide now," returned Trot. "And how could any giant live in there if the roof is so low down?" "Why, he couldn't, mate.
Here was where his gym. training and all his football practice came in splendidly. Every muscle was strong, every nerve true to its duty! Not once did Prescott fear that he would lose his grip and fall to the street below. Up above, at the roof's edge, stood Darrin, directing as though from quarter-deck or military-top.
Come on, I'm for bed. Perhaps his wife does know him. What I'm thinking is, does he know his wife? I'm a solicitor. I know what I'd say if she came to me." On a day a month later in May Hapgood said: "Now, I'll tell you. Old Sabre by Jove, it's frightful. He's crashed. The roof's fallen in on him. He's nearly out of his mind. I don't like it. I don't like it a bit. I've only just left him.
Timokles drew a breath of thankfulness. He crept and felt in the dark for a few, scattered dates that he had before noticed lying near the roof's edge, the fruit having fallen from a date palm and having lain there till nearly as dry as shards. But there was still nutriment left in the dates, and, having eaten nothing since morning, he gnawed the fruit.
"It's coming!" shivered Polly; "the roof's tumbling in!" and she hid her face lower yet. Wouldn't God stop the dreadful fire ever yet. He must, for Mamsie said He loved to help all His children. And "Hooray, Polly!" called Joel in her ear, putting a very black face up close to her pale one. "Don't you understand? It's all out. It is, truly, this time, every single squinchin' bit."
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