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"I thought myself very clever in this business, but I was never a greater fool in my life; for there was no such hurry to have gone on shore, and the first lieutenant never forgave me for appealing to the captain but of that by-and-by, and all in good time. At last I obtained a grumbling assent to my going on shore, and off I went like a sky-rocket.
"I know these little devils, Pelly," went on MacVeigh. "If they were Nuna-talmutes you could scare 'em with a sky-rocket. But they're Kogmollocks. They've murdered the crews of half a dozen whalers, and I shouldn't wonder if they'd got the kid in some such way. They wouldn't let us off now, even if we gave her up. It wouldn't do. They know better than to let the Law get any evidence against them.
He took it as she meant it, and smiled at her so happily that her heart got the better of her voice, and she rose abruptly, saying something about the heat. 'Yes, you are tired; come out and rest, my dearest'; and with a masterful air Demi took her into the starlight, leaving Tom to stare after them winking as if a sky-rocket had suddenly gone off under his nose.
One can almost lay down a law: Two persons who do not part with kisses should part with haste. The way to do is to go like the sky-rocket up and out. But the fifteen-minute call followed by the flying exit is at best only a niggling and unsatisfactory solution; it is next door to always staying at home. The Hermit is a slacker.
Her husband's breath was almost gone by the time he reached the foot of the stairs; consequently his entrance was a trifle less noisy and startling than his sky-rocket flight through the kitchen. It is doubtful if his wife would have noticed even if it had been. She caught a glimpse of him in the mirror, and heaved a sigh of relief. "Oh, it's you, is it!" she panted. "My, I'm glad!
I'm so glad just so glad I don't know what to do with myself that those experiments with the lesser Thunder Bird, the smaller sky-rocket, which won't make the four-day trip to Mammy Moon, but will only fly up a couple of hundred miles, or so, and drop its golden egg, the diary, to tell you where that blank No Man's Land of space begins will still be carried out this spring from the top of old Mount Greylock.
As she went on she began to shine like a star, shootin' on through the azure heavens for all the world like a sky-rocket. That put me on my pluck, and I bust out just like a sky-rocket too. My blazers! If it didn't make my head spin.
Violet hardly ever did anything without first asking a question about it. "Huh?" "What for we dig a hole?" "To put fire-crackers in," answered Laddie. "And when they shoot off 'Bang! they'll make the sand go up in the air." "Like a sky-rocket?" asked Vi. "Yes, I guess maybe like a sky-rocket," answered Laddie. So down to the sand pile he and his sister went.
She pointed to the river-bank a hundred yards away, where the Canadian was busy assorting skins. But he only laughed at her show of temper, and shrugged his shoulders as he answered her, roughly: "Understand me, I'm on the square. So think it over, and don't go up in the air like a sky-rocket."
"Then the Floridian is all ready to come out of the bay?" asked Christy, suppressing the excitement he was beginning to feel. "All ready, sir; and the signal was a sky-rocket, which the pilot could see over the fog." "We will not give them any signal, but we will treat them to some visitors. Is the steamer armed, Mike?" "No, sir; not a single big gun, and she has only hands enough to work her.