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Updated: May 8, 2025
He died at dawn. All through the weary hours of that perfect summer's day the rifles never ceased firing. Sometimes a regular fusillade for ten minutes or so; then, as if tired out, sinking down to a few single shots, while the siren-like whistle and sharp explosion of the shells from the high-velocity gun continued intermittently, and added to the dangers of the streets. So the hours dragged on.
"Jansen," said the commander, "we are going to attack the Turkish battleships at the mouth of the Euphrates." The old man let out a siren-like yell, and turned crimson all over his pink and white face. Captain Nicholson turned the submarine over to him, and, followed by the two lads, made his way below.
Far above our heads looked down the old, brown keep of the Grimaldis, once lords of all the azure coast; below us glittered Mentone, pink and blue and golden in the sun; beyond Monte Carlo sat throned, siren-like, upon her rock.
If he had not been looking closely he would not have caught the swift change that shot into the siren-like play of her orbs. It was almost instantaneous. Her slow-travelling glance stopped as she saw him.
Siren-like, she would fain entice us to remain with her, but the old charm-power has departed with her past glory; and we echoed Hervey's beautiful lament as we watched her domes and minarets disappear slowly one by one in the distance.
"Let's see," said Katherine, puckering her brow. "What do people usually do on such occasions? We've been in 'fine pickles' before, and we've always gotten out of them. Isn't the proper thing to do when you're locked up in a lonely tower to sing siren-like music until the noble hero hears you and comes to the rescue?
Sturgis." "Oh, you be," said the agent, comprehensively. "Ain't gonna walk away out to the Baldwin place with all them valises, air you?" Smith inquired, breaking silence for the first time. "I don't know how else we'll get there," Ken said. "Yay Hop!" shouted Smith, unexpectedly, with a most astonishing siren-like whoop.
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