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Ollie had cleared away the dishes, washed them and placed them in the cupboard, on top of which the one clock of that household stood, scar-faced, but hoarse-voiced when it struck, and strong as the challenge of an old cock. Already it had struck nine, for they had been late in coming to supper, owing to Joe's long set-to with his conscience at the edge of the hazel-copse in the woods.
"What's the matter with him?" growled the scar-faced man, none too anxious to start an open quarrel with the formidable Kilduff. Rhinehart jerked his thumb over his shoulder. "The gal in there. He don't like the game the chief has been workin' with her." "Neither do I," said Purvis, "but I'd do worse than the chief done to get Lee Haines back."
The bully's right arm dangled by his side, limp and broken, and a sheath-knife was lying on the floor, at the big man's feet. The sight gave me a rather sick feeling at the pit of the stomach, for I realized I had narrowly escaped being knifed. The scar-faced man would not listen to my thanks.
"I call on all you gen'lemen," he said to the assembled group, "to say that I done tried my best to do this peaceable. It ain't me that's sent for Donnegan; it's him!" He rode away, leaving Scar-faced Lewis biting his long mustaches in anxiety. He was not exactly afraid, but he waited in the suspense which comes before a battle. Moreover, an audience was gathering.
Chances are he's all right. He's hard as nails. When you can walk we'll go and look for him." They found the fisherman huddled against the rocks at the bottom of the small crevice. Close by his side lay the scar-faced islander. Both men were unconscious. Gregory examined Howard carefully. "His leg is broken," he announced. "And he's pretty well bruised up.
Ben, a muscular, scar-faced fellow of thirty, stepped forward and took a seat on the rock near the captives. He had the mild, soft eyes of a student of theology and the square jaw and hard hands of a prize fighter. "You're to keep your face closed see?" he said, nudging Ned in the side with an elbow. "You're to keep your clapper tied," he went on, "or I'll tie it up for you.
Far below, a white-haired woman, her toothless jaws uttering one weird chant after another, was digging for him a quicklime grave, in the insane belief that she was aiding in accomplishing some miracle of immortality. In time and Fairchild did not know how long an evil-visaged, scar-faced man would return to help her carry the inert frame of the unconscious man below and bury it.
He 's nearly gone. What were you going to do when he went ?" "He 'd have dissolved in air, Roady I know. The spirits have told me." "Perhaps so." The voice of the scar-faced, mean-visaged Squint Rodaine was still honeyed, still cajoling. "Perhaps so but not at once. Is n't there a barrel of lime in the basement?" "Yes." "Come downstairs with me."
I quote from our guest's recital: "Then, after they got calmed down and hid their knives, and it looked peaceful again, they decided to start all over; but the liquor was out, so that old scar-faced Pyann jumps on a pony and rides over from the camp for a fresh supply. He pulled up out in front of the Swede's and yelled for three bottles to be brought out to him, pronto!
There is Larry la Roche. And I am Henry Allister." The edge of Andrew's alertness was suddenly dulled. The last name swept into his brain a wave of meaning, for of all words on the mountain desert there was none more familiar than Henry Allister. Scar-faced Allister, they called him. Of those deadly men who figured in the tales of Uncle Jasper, Henry Allister was the last and the most grim.
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