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Updated: June 10, 2025
"That's no tone to take with me." "Why? What sort of tone do you expect me to take?" was the retort in the listless voice. Yet, now, in the dullness ran a faint suggestion of something sinister. "I expected a decent amount of humility from one in your position," was the tart rejoinder of the magnate. Life quickened swiftly in the drooping form of the girl. Her muscles tensed.
"I don't want her; I have too many as it is." The captain's face lit up with an unhealthy glow. He approached eagerly to seize his prize. Joan gave a little cry of dismay, and shrank closer to her lover. Hilary tensed in every muscle. Though it meant instant death, he would not permit that towering brute to lay his clumsy paw on Joan. Urga reached out to clasp the frightened girl.
Drew rummaged frantically, turning the pocket inside out. When—who? "What papers, compadrê?" Drew explained. "You’ve been wearin’ that there belt constantly, ain’t you?" "Yes. Except—" He suddenly tensed. "That night, down by the swimmin’ hole, when you thought you saw somethin’ in the bushes ... remember?" "I remember. Looky here, who’d want ’em—an’ why?" "Shannon!"
Peter raised himself weakly, the severed leg of the owl dropping from his jaws. He was half blinded. Every muscle in his body seemed to be torn and bleeding, yet in his discomfort the thrilling conviction came to him that he had won. He tensed himself for another attack, hugging the ground closely as he watched and waited, but no attack came.
He grasped me by the arm, at the same time directing the light upon a closed door before which we stood. I raised my fist and beat upon the panels; then, every muscle tensed and my heart throbbing wildly, I listened for the girl's voice. Not a sound broke that deathly stillness except the beating of my own heart, which, I thought, must surely be audible to my companion.
Then, keeping the lower limbs perfectly stiff, with muscles tensed, bend the body forward from the middle of the trunk and while doing this empty the lungs quickly. Then straighten up again, at the same time filling the lungs. This should be repeated from 6 to 12 times.
His muscles tensed suddenly for a quick spring, then relaxed. He must play the game. Urga looked him over carefully, puzzled. "Strange," he grunted, "I've seen this fellow before, but I cannot remember where." Hilary was taut. Would he be recognized? But the Mercutian Cor in Earth terms, Captain of a Hundred shook his head finally, and turned away. The disguise had held up.
His muscles tensed. For the first time he felt the desire to shoot a naked fist into the grinning mouth of Concombre Bateese. He laid a hand on the half-breed's shoulder, and Bateese turned about slowly. He saw what was in the other's eyes. "Until this moment I have not known what a great pleasure it will be to fight you, Bateese," said David quietly. "Make it tomorrow in the morning, if you wish.
Instantly a brown hand leaped forth and seized the mottled neck, and another drove the heavy hunting knife to the hilt into the little brain. Convulsively Histah shuddered and relaxed, tensed and relaxed again, whipping and striking with his great body; but no longer sentient or sensible. Histah was dead, but in his death throes he might easily dispatch a dozen apes or men.
Conditions seemed again to have returned to normal. And then, as though the hand of Death had reached out and touched them all, the five men tensed into sudden rigidity. Above the nocturnal diapason of the teeming jungle sounded a dismal flapping of wings and over head, through the thick night, a shadowy form passed across the diffused light of the flaring camp-fire.
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