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They came vague and indistinct through a closed door. The room of the voices was on the left-hand side of the corridor. He soft-footed it closer, reached the door, and dropped noiselessly to a knee. A key was in the lock on the outside. With infinite precaution against rattling he turned it, slid it out, and dropped it in his coat pocket. His eye fastened to the opening.
The cooling air was sweet with the mingled perfumes of the garden border below, an early star had fallen, sparkling, upon the blue-grey train of departing day, a whispering breeze crept, soft-footed, through the shrubbery. Esther lay back in the long chair and closed her eyes. For thirty perfect moments she waited until the click of the garden gate announced his coming.
The head partner of Dick & Co. had fallen upon something that interested him -tremendously! Dave Darrin came stealing over, as soft-footed as any panther. Dick did not turn around to look at his chum. He merely held up a cautioning hand, and Darrin moved even more stealthily. In another moment Dave's head was close to his chum's, and both young men were gazing upon the same scene.
One might look for such actions from inferior animals from a cat that has killed a bird for instance; for cats are only soft-footed, purring bundles of deceit, with no standard of trail morals. But for a dog, a racing dog, and one belonging to the Allan and Darling Team, it was almost incredible.
I can't play very long," was Anstruther's salutation, as he complacently twisted his mustache en hussar. Major Hawke bowed in a silent delight. And so it fell out that both wolf and panther hungry vulpine prowler and sleek feminine soft-footed enemy gathered closely, around the young British Lion, whose easy self-complacency led him into the snare, hoodwinked by the fair unknown Delilah.
These were the happiest moments of Brita's joyless life, and even these were not unmixed with bitterness; for into the midst of her joy would steal a shy anxious thought which was the more terrible because it came so stealthily, so soft-footed and unbidden. Had not this child been given her as a punishment for her guilt? Had she then a right to turn God's scourge into a blessing?
So it was, exercising faculties that were no longer necessary, but that were still alive in him and clamorous for exercise, he followed the long- since passed wood-rat with all the soft-footed crouching craft of the meat-pursuer and with utmost fineness of reading the scent. The trail crossed a fresh trail, a trail very fresh, very immediately fresh.
"They're in the library." "I want them to come up. Tell Lizette to call them." The soft-footed nurse flitted from the room, and a few moments later Elsie Bellwood and Bart Hodge appeared. Hodge followed Elsie with an air of reluctance and confusion, which caused Inza to smile.
This silent surrounding forest even yet held its ancient creatures the swift and graceful deer, the soft-footed panther, the shambling black bear, the wild hog, the wolf, all manner of furred creatures, great store of noble wild fowl all these thriving after the fecund fashion of this brooding land.
And God, my brothers, is a gentle God and very pitiful so now do we leave her in God's abiding care." And presently they turned, soft-footed, and went upon their way leaving the place to solitude. But from the vault of heaven the stars looked down upon that lonely grave like the watching eyes of holy angels.
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