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I could see the gruesome little trail of smoke rising; and as Snap twisted and jerked, there on his flesh was the red and blistered trail of the violet ray. "Now will you tell?" "No!" Miko laughed. "No? Then I shall write my name a little deeper...." A black sear now a trail etched in the quivering flesh. "Oh!" Snap's face went white as chalk as he pressed his lips together. "Or a little acid?
"He is mean enough to get drowned, so as to save the expense of a cemetery lot." While talking, the boys continued to row steadily, and soon a point of land took them out of sight of Andrew Felps and his party. Then they rested on their oars and held a consultation. "This is certainly something we didn't bargain for," was Snap's comment. "It knocks all of our plans endways, as the saying goes."
He was not as smart at them as Snap was at his, but then cats never do learn to do tricks as well as do dogs. Still everyone agreed that the fat lady had done her training well. As for Snap, he and Snoop became firmer friends every day, and often the cat went to sleep on Snap's back, or between his forepaws as he lay stretched out in front of the fire.
"Well, hurry up, please, Freddie 'cause I'm cold standing here, and I want to get under the blankets on the sled and have a nice ride." "I'll hurry all right, Flossie. You go up there by Snap's head and pat him. Then he'll stand stiller, and I can fix the harness on him quicker."
In moments of greatest emotion the human mind individualizes. To me, there was only Anita. Life is very strange! The gate to the shining garden of our love seemed swinging wide to let us in. Yet I recall that a vague fear still lay on me. A premonition? I felt a touch on my arm. A bloated helmet visor was thrust near my own. I saw Snap's face peering at me.
Then came the story of events growing out of her flight. When he told of the shooting at Silver Cup, Mescal rose with heaving bosom and blazing eyes. "It was nothing I wasn't hurt much. Only the intention was bad. We saw no more of Snap or Holderness. The worst of it all was that Snap's wife died." "Oh, I am sorry sorry. Poor Father Naab! How he must hate me, the cause of it all!
You have all these men on the Planetara. And in Ferrok-Shahn, others " I paused. Would she tell me? Could I make her talk of that other brigand ship which Miko had said was waiting on Mars? I wondered if he had been able to signal it. The distance from here to Mars was great; yet upon other voyages Snap's signals had gotten through. My heart sank at the thought.
No more than ten or fifteen had been available for that final assault upon the camp buildings. Miko's last strategy. I think perhaps he had intended, with his few remaining men, to take the ship and make away, deserting his fellows. All on the ship, caught unhelmeted by the explosion, were dead long since. I stood listening to Snap's triumphant account.
Pushing on, they soon came to where another signboard had been located; but the board had been knocked off with a stone or a hammer and was missing. "Some hunter's meanness," was Snap's comment. "A fellow who would destroy a signboard ought to be locked up," was Whopper's comment. "It's about on a par with starting a forest fire."
It wasn't worth much anyway." From a nearby store several lanterns were brought, and men and boys proceeded to make an inspection of the ruins. Some boards and timbers were hauled aside, and soon the boys discovered the sleds with the outfit practically as they had left them. One load was a bit damaged at the end, but that was all. "I'm thankful it is no worse," was Snap's comment.
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