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And only I could have noticed Larry's shrinking, his microscopic hesitation before he took it, and his involuntary movement, as though to shake off something unclean, when the clasp had ended. Marakinoff, without another look at me, turned and went quickly within. The guards took their places. I looked at Larry inquiringly. "Don't ask a thing now, Doc!" he said tensely. "Wait till we get home.
There came the succeeding darkness, and I peered nervously up the corridor, listening tensely, and trying to find what lay beyond the faint glow of my dark-lamp, which now seemed ridiculously dim by contrast with the tremendous blaze of the flash-power.... And then, as I stooped forward, staring and listening, there came the crashing thud of the door of the Grey Room.
He lifted himself, as a man distracted, from the chair in which he had been sitting, gripping the arms with hands that were tensely responding to an agony of spirit.
His voice sunk to infinite tenderness. "You are very nervous, dear," he said, raising both her hands firmly to his lips. "Don't," she moaned faintly. "Can't you see I'm trying to be brave; can't you see how hard it is? You must not!" He bent closer with slow determination until she felt the warmth of his breath upon her lips. "Kiss me," he pleaded tensely; "I love you."
"Then 'someone else' should have taken pains to learn the truth before spreading malicious untruth," tensely condemned Jane. Turning to the matron, she said bitterly: "Mrs. Weatherbee, this whole story is simply spite-work; nothing else. When I have explained the true meaning of Judith's and my talk together in the dressing-room, you will understand everything.
Its garrison was withdrawing from that place and handing it over to destruction. There was some strange sound in the room. He had dozed in a chair. Some strange sound, or had he imagined it? He sat up tensely and listened. It was her breathing, a harsh and laboured sound. He stepped quickly to the bed and looked and then ran into the passage and called loudly, "Effie! Effie!"
Gordon is coming over, and I can't have her too tired." Her husband gave a low whistle, and I saw a quick look of understanding pass between him and Lillian. I did not have time to wonder about it, however, for Lillian went out of the room, and the moment she closed the door he said tensely: "Tell me you forgive me.
Suddenly a strange yet familiar sound halted Slone, as if he had been struck. The wild, shrill, high-pitched, piercing whistle of a stallion! Nagger neighed a blast in reply and pounded the rock with his iron-shod hoofs. With a thrill Slone looked ahead. There, some few hundred yards distant, on a promontory, stood a red horse. "My Lord! ... It's Wildfire!" breathed Slone, tensely.
Jack London, born in California in 1876, was forced to find his West in Alaska and in alcohol. He was what he and his followers liked to call the virile or red-blooded type, responsive to the "Call of the Wild," "living life naked and tensely." In his talk Jack London was simple and boyish, with plenty of humor over his own literary and social foibles.
"I'll be back early in the afternoon, and then we will make our plans." "Will you tell him, your father?" Mrs. Conry asked tensely. "He will have to know, of course." As he spoke a wave of pain shot over the young man's face. He stepped to the door and then turned: "You will telegraph about Delia, she might meet us in New York in two days." "Very well," Mrs. Conry murmured submissively.
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