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I found Simon, sure enough, in the lane, seated in his cart, and his face looked squarer and grimmer even than usual. "Oh, Peter!" said he, gripping my hand, "it be come at last Gaffer be goin'." "Going, Simon?" "Dyin', Peter. Fell downstairs 's marnin'. Doctor says 'e can't last the day out sinkin' fast, 'e be, an' 'e be axin' for 'ee, Peter.
Some one lighter of build was wearing the snowshoes, some one who took shorter steps and toed out. "See. She run out to meet him. Here's where her feet kept sinkin' in," West said. The other nodded. Yes, she had hurried to meet him but that was not all he saw. There was the impression of a knee in the snow.
If I had no laucht at yon foolish lads and begun to rin at the first you'd a bin sinkin' doon to the bowels o' the airth be the noo! Wully Beagrie thocht you was a ghaist, and Tom MacPhail swore ye was only like a goblin on a puddick-steel! "Na!" said I. "Yon's but the daft Englishman the loony that had escapit frae the waxwarks."
When this was told to Captain White, a clever Yankee sea-captain who had general charge of the C. R. B. shipping, he laughed considerably and then said: "Why, look-a-here, I'll paint those boats all over, top, sides, and bottom, if that'll only keep the Germans from sinkin' 'em."
It's this yere idee which takes me outen the shaft I'm sinkin', an' sends me cavortin' up to 'Doby's camp. I passes a resolution on my way that if she's cashed 'Doby's chips for him that a-way, I'll shorely sa'nter over an' lay waste all Chihuahua to play even for the blow. "But as all turns out, them surmises of Billy's is idle.
But that cat, you know, was always agin new fangled arrangements somehow he never could abide'em. You know how it is with old habits. But by an' by Tom Quartz begin to git sort of reconciled a little, though he never could altogether understand that eternal sinkin' of a shaft an' never pannin' out any thing. At last he got to comin' down in the shaft, hisself, to try to cipher it out.
"We 'it somethin'," shouted the skipper, "an' she's sinkin' by the larboard bow. Gotta' git off 'er quick. Boats are gone! Everythin's gone." "No," said Curlie calmly, "the raft forward is safely lashed on." The engineer appeared from below. The engine had already ceased its throbbing. "She's fillin' fast," he commented in a slow drawl. "You two get the raft loose," said Curlie.
Underneath his serenity there was a different order of man. "I reckon both your dad an' Jorth went fer their guns at the same time an even break. But jest as they drew, some one shot a rifle from the store. Must hev been a forty-five seventy. A big gun! The bullet must have hit your dad low down, aboot the middle. He acted thet way, sinkin' to his knees.
"I know it all, sir, an' that you have thruth an rason on your side; but, sir, you never lost a wife that you loved; an' long may you be so, I pray the heavenly Father this day! Maybe if you did, sir, plase your honor, that, wid your heart sinkin' like a stone widin you, you'd thry whether or not something couldn't rise it. Sir, only for the dhrink I'd be dead."
"Nell," she replied irrelevantly with a quick, uncertain glance around, "I'm afraid. Do you know what it is to be afraid?" "I've been scart," the woman answered curtly. "I've a queer, sinkin' feeling here," she laid her hand at the pit of her stomach, "and my back feels weak all gone. My knees take spells of wobblin' when I walk. I'm afraid in the dark. I'm afraid in the light.
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