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Updated: June 8, 2025
The old barquey was certainly steaming ahead at a great rate, the sea coming up before her in a high ridge that nearly topped the fo'c's'le, and welling under her counter on either hand in undulating furrows that spread out beneath her stern in the form of a broad arrow, widening their distance apart as she moved onward, while the space between was frosted as if with silver by the white foam churned up by the ever- whirling propeller blades, beating the water with their rhythmical iteration, thump-thump, thump-thump, thump-thump!
To Fitzgerald's fogged hearing, it was like the pulse beating in the bowels of a ship, only that it stopped and began at odd intervals, intermittently. At the fourth recurrence, he sat up, to find that it was early morning, and that the sea lay; gray and leaden, under the pearly haze of dawn. Thump-thump! He rubbed his eyes, and laughed.
That was Bud's contribution. "Aw, for gosh sake, shut up!" yelled Johnny, his temper rising again. From the bungalow, when he passed it on his way to the bunk house, came the measured thump-thump of a piano playing the same old tune with a stress meant to mock him and madden him. "Then if she'll smile I'll stop awhile, And kiss her snow-white hand."
At eight o'clock Pearlie's thump-thump sounded again, and the leading lady sprang to the door as before. Pearlie stared. This was no tear-stained, heat-bedraggled creature in an unbecoming red-striped kimono. It was a remarkably pretty woman in a white lingerie gown over a pink slip. The leading lady knew a thing or two about the gentle art of making-up!
Now that the attack was really at hand, he felt a strange and sudden sense of helplessness. And with a bitter curse he shook his fist at the dark forest across the canyon where even as he looked he saw a movement of crouching, furtive things; he heard a dull thump-thump as of clubs beating hollow logs. "You devils!" he execrated. "Oh, for a ton of Pulverite to drop among you!"
Though I could not distinguish a word of it, I had the uncomfortable feeling that there was a controversy on; and I remember feeling annoyed that any one should thus interfere with my composition of your letter, which I regarded as most important, you may be sure. At the end of five minutes of argument there came the heavy thump-thump of men struggling above me.
Still no sound but one in her ears the thump-thump of her own overstrained heart. She closed the door as softly as she could, and mounted the first flight. Hark! the sound of a step above, followed by a faint glimmer of light. At the turn of the stairs she looked up and faced him. He stood on the landing outside their bedroom door, with a candle held aloft. His eyes were blazing.
But under them, on the floor below, the stillness in the cottage was merrily broken by an outburst of dance-music with a rhythmical thump-thump of feet, keeping time to the cheerful tune. Toff was playing his fiddle; and Toff's boy was dancing to his father's music. After waiting a day or two for news from Amelius, and hearing nothing, Rufus went to make inquiries at the cottage.
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