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He looked suddenly old and tired and troubled. There was appeal in the gaze he turned on his grandson. He stepped forward. "Don't let her make any more trouble between us, Harlan, not till you understand how she " But the girl forestalled him. She had fought her battle alone until he came. She slid off her horse and ran across the yard, sobbing like a child. And now Presson saw how young she was.
He slid further and further, still drawing himself over the ground in that terrible semblance of a serpent. Paul, seeing his face, was frightened. "Jim! Jim!" he cried. "Stop!" But Long Jim slid slowly on. Tom Ross said something, but it was lost in the whistling of a cannon shot overhead. They saw Long Jim stop the next moment, and Paul believed that he heard him utter a little sigh.
I had not much time to consider the situation, for while he had been speaking, Uncle Beamish had waded through the snow, and finding the barn door unfastened, had slid it to one side. Instantly the horse entered the dark barn, fortunately finding nothing in his way.
A nickel or two and a few dimes slid out before the packet came. It was of like consistency with the first and of about the same value. Webb lifted up his eyes and looked straight into the amazed, almost livid, face of the trader. "My God! Major Webb," cried Hay, aghast and bewildered. "Don't look at me like that! No man on earth has ever accused me of a crime.
Then the poor boy called in the bitterness of his heart upon Pleasure, who had led him out of the way, and now had forsaken him; but she came no more only terrible thoughts troubled him; and he heard the hissing of serpents as they slid along in the bushes near him, and all evil noises sounded in his ears, till he scarcely knew where he was standing.
"But three of us, I notice, are to do all the speaking," Werner growled to himself. "Next thing to being President of the United States I'd be president of the Workers of the World and the last's the safest job." Koppy went to the window and looked through into the darkening shadows. A man slid through the undergrowth out there and disappeared. Several more drifted in and out of sight.
Then, full almost beyond the point of comfort, they slid down the hay-chutes, went out the back way, climbed over the chicken coops, not because it was necessary, but because it was their idea of amusement, and went for a walk in the field. At the farthest corner of the field they crawled under the fence, cut through a neighboring potato patch, and came out on the street.
Hochenheimer rose to meet her; and, because her limbs would tremble, she slid quickly into her chair. "You you must excuse me, Mr. Hochenheimer." "It's all right, Miss Renie. I take up where we left off. It ain't so easy, Miss Renie, to begin all over again to say it, but but will you be my will you be my "
Presently she came abreast of The Poplars. The house lay so still, so peaceful, it would wake to such dismay! The boat slid along beneath her own overhanging chamber. "No song to-morrow from the Fire-hang-bird's Nest!" she said. So she floated by the slumbering village, the flow of the river carrying her steadily on, and the careful strokes of the oars adding swiftness to her flight.
"Oh! she slid off easier than we did, I reckon," remarked Old Dan Tucker, now snuggled down comfortably, and apparently in a mood to take things easy, since it would be a long time between "eats." "Tell them to go slow, all the same, Jud," Paul remarked.
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