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Soon we learned the deplorable fact that the large tent had been pitched in a basin-like place, and that the water, as the rain increased, was coming in from all sides, the volume growing rapidly greater. We succeeded then in lighting one lantern, when the water was found to be something like two inches deep over nearly all parts of the large tent's floor.
By the time he finished he could scarcely keep his eyes open. 'You seem a bit sleepy, said the clown. 'I'm hungry, too, answered Jimmy. 'Well, you can't sleep here, said the clown, 'and you don't see much to eat, do you? 'No, there isn't much to eat, Jimmy admitted. 'But, he added, 'I don't see why I couldn't sleep here. 'Because the tent's going to be taken down, said the clown.
Aminta's return from the sea-nymph to the state of woman crossed annihiliation on the way back to sentience, and picked up meaningless pebbles and shells of life, between the sea's verge and her tent's shelter; hardly her own life to her understanding yet, except for the hammer Memory became, to strike her insensible, at here and there a recollected word or nakedness of her soul.
The father and the son had returned, and with them came another man. Timokles heard and understood something of what was said at the tent's door in the dark. "If I may but see his face, I shall know whether he hath been here before," declared the new voice eagerly. "I have seen all who have come to our village."
"Where I stop I sleep, and I'm not particularly enthusiastic about sheltering under the cart. Last time we tried it the pony stampeded and the wheel went over my foot. The tent's no good; you'd want a chain to stop its blowing away. We'll go on until we bring up to lee of a big, solid bluff." "Very well," Blake agreed.
As he spoke his utterance was thick and mumbling, and in his agitation his jaws worked in convulsive twitches. As the two met, the man, with a sudden impulse, took off his gloves and shook Colwell's hand. "'Where are they? asked Colwell, briefly. "'In the tent, said the man, pointing over his shoulder, 'over the hill the tent's down. "'Is Mr. Greely alive? "'Yes, Greely's alive.
He followed, and joined the rest of the tent's company in recovering the tattered remnants, and towels, and personal property which had strayed into the domain of the next regiment. Camp was not a healthy spot in the khamsin days, Mac decided. Coins to a piastreless cobber smoothed over a horse-picket difficulty, and he passed out of the camp by back ways.
"The burden of a prophet's power Fell on me in that fearful hour; From off unutterable woes The curtain of the future rose; I saw far down the coming time The fiery chastisement of crime; With noise of mingling hosts, and jar Of falling towers and shouts of war, I saw the nations rise and fall Like fire-gleams on my tent's white wall."
"Not here," snapped Harding, "Where I stop I sleep, and I've no use for sheltering under the cart. Last time we tried it the pony stampeded and the wheel went over my foot. The tent's no good; you'd want a chain to stop its blowing away. We'll go on until we bring up to lee of a big, solid bluff." "Very well," Blake agreed.
They covered the whole of Tent's farm, and were drawn up in line, heavily equipped, with their colors in position, field officers dismounted, and detachments from each regiment preparing hot coffee at certain fires. A very few wagons and these containing only ammunition stood harnessed beside each regiment. In many cases the men lay or knelt upon the ground.
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