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But Jake was as senseless as a log, and the attempt to rouse him would inevitably attract attention below and precipitate the attack, besides leaving them utterly penniless. There was another idea which occurred to our hero: Could he secrete his own money and Jake's, or the greater part of it, and thus save it from the clutches of his dishonest host?
That's the only cover we can find here. Run for it!" And run they did, the Professor outdistancing all the rest in his attempt to secrete himself where the enemy's weapons would not be likely to reach him.
But he found a purse, full of money banknotes, gold, silver and in one of its compartments a scrap of paper folded curiously, after the fashion of the cocked-hat missives of another age in which envelopes had not been invented. Bryce hurriedly unfolded this, and after one glance at its contents, made haste to secrete it in his own pocket.
The author of the Histoire secrète relates the manoeuvres resorted to by Beaufort and Louise to deceive the vigilance, more affected than real, as it would seem, of her old aunt.
"And what will Captain Jack do with us when we return?" asked Frank. Jack shrugged his shoulders. "It's hard to say," he replied. "However, there is no use worrying. Let tomorrow take care of itself." "Well," said Frank, "I'm going to secrete a couple of revolvers. I'm not going to be shot down after this piece of work is done." "Right," Jack agreed.
The French poet, Chastelard, misled by her external signs of favor, believed himself to be her choice. At the end of one mad revel he was found secreted beneath her bed, and was driven out by force. A second time he ventured to secrete himself within the covers of the bed. Then he was dragged forth, imprisoned, and condemned to death.
This mould, the most precious of soils, gets dissolved again by the rain, and carried off in solution by the streams to the sea or the lowlands, where it helps to form the future cultivable area. At the same time the earthworms secrete an acid, which acts upon the bare surface of rock beneath, and helps to disintegrate it in preparation for plant life in unfavourable places.
He clasped a stone knife he had managed to secrete at Werowocomoco. He could not overhear what the Indians were saying, but they were evidently arguing. Then when they seemed to have come to some decision, they started on once more. Though the forest was so sombre. Smith's eyes had grown more accustomed to the blackness and he began to distinguish between the various shades of darkness.
He must fly or secrete himself, or perhaps lose a head in which there was concealed a considerable amount of Scotch cunning.
Crawshay," he sighed. "Up to the present no," the former admitted. "Yet I can promise you one thing, sir. Those papers shall not leave the country." "I am glad to hear you speak with so much confidence," Mr. Brown observed drily. "Mr. Jocelyn Thew seems at any rate to have managed to secrete them without difficulty." "That may be so," Crawshay acknowledged, "and yet I am convinced of one thing.
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