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Updated: May 23, 2025
They had not seen a warp of a vessel getting into the row, and had run over it, and, as it tautened, they capsized. Your mother went down like a stone, Mary, and was not found for three days a'terward; and when I seed her sink I fell down in a fit." Here old Stapleton stopped, laid down his pipe, and rested his face in his hands. Mary burst into tears.
What was it, then, that suddenly strengthened this solitary link so that the chain tautened and he felt the pull of it? Henriot could not say. He came back with the rush of a descending drop to the realisation dimly, vaguely, as from great distance that he was with these two, now at this moment, in the Wadi Hof, and that the cold of dawn was in the air about him.
His muscles tautened as again he fought some certain of those enormous moments when the whole of life was bound up solely in the unspeakable necessity to win. Astounding trick of thought from what beset him!
"For a confirmed misogynist," she observed later on, when, the feast over, he was repacking the basket, "you have a very complete understanding of a woman's weakness for tea." "It's a case of cause and effect. A misogynist" caustically "is the product of a very complete understanding of most feminine weaknesses." Sara's slender figure tautened a little.
On the morning of Graham's departure, however, he found her prepared to go to the railway-station. She was red-eyed and pale, and he was very sorry for her. "Do you think it is wise?" he asked. "I shall see him off, of course. I may never see him again." And his own tautened nerves almost gave way. "Don't say that!" he cried. "Don't even think that.
Then with a glance towards the cliff he started the working chant "Ayee-ho, Ayee-ho!" The two gangs twenty men to each windlass took it up with one voice, and to the deep intoned chant the chains tautened, shuddered for a moment, and began to lift. "Ayee-ho!" Silently, irresistibly, the chain drew the rock from its bed.
Just then his quick ear caught the sound of stumbling, hurried footsteps, plainly not a mountaineer's, down in the rough woodland, below. Instantly his muscles tautened, instantly he brought his rifle to position; but he soon let it fall again and smiled, perhaps, for the first time that day. "Lawsy! Lawsy!" he could hear a scared voice muttering. "Lawsy, I is los', fo' suah!"
Now it looked to Raven as if it might be his turn. "I came up here this morning," he said, "to see her." Curiously, at the moment of saying "your wife," he balked at it. He would not, even by the sanction of the word, seem to give her over to him. "Yes," said Tenney. The lividness of anger tautened his face. "You see me off to my work. You knew you'd find her here." "Yes," said Raven.
It was only a sign, a motion of the leader's hand but with it, quick as a lightning flash, Jimmie Dale was in action. The limp arms tautened into steel as he wrenched them loose, and, whirling around, he whipped his fist to the chin of one of the two guards. In an instant, with the blow, as the man staggered backward, the room was in pandemonium.
The mainsheet tautened with a brisk rattling of the blocks, the boom uplifted, the sail bellied out, and the Reindeer heeled over over, and over, till the lee-rail went under, the deck went under, the cabin windows went under, and the bay began to pour in over the cockpit rail.
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