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Yvonne gave one startled glance over the crowd, then jumped down behind the box and, unslinging her orchestra as she dropped, literally dove under the canvas flap and disappeared. Philidor, who was in the act of making change, called Cleofonte to take his place and went inside, to find that Yvonne had fled behind the wagon. "What is it?" he asked, alarmed. "Are you ill?" "No, no," breathlessly.
"What is it?" they heard Grylls shout below. A sentence in Cree explained. "Watch the raft!" he shouted. "I'll bring her back!" They heard him run heavily toward them. Hastily unslinging his gun, Garth sent a shot at random through the darkness. They heard the bullet spring off a stone. The steps ceased. "By God! he's up there!" cried Grylls thickly. "Come back, Mabyn!
Following his finger, his companions beheld two sharp points steadily advancing from the farther side of the crest. "Be ready to give it to 'em," breathed Horace, at the same time unslinging his rifle. But before he could get it to his shoulder the head of the horse came into view and the next instant the head and shoulders of a man. In a flash the chums seized their rifles.
Here I soon got what the Irishman had asked for out of his cabin, and, giving Weston his order about the state room, unslinging the while my own hammock from its hooks and rolling it up, blankets and all, in a roll, I kicked it before me as I made my way down the engine-room hatchway as quickly as I could.
When swarthy fellows, with girdles full of pistols and yataghans, passed us without unslinging their long guns when scowling camel-riders, with awful long bending lances, decorated with tufts of rags, or savage plumes of scarlet feathers, went by without molestation I think we were rather glad that they did not stop and parley: for, after all, a British lion with an umbrella is no match for an Arab with his infernal long gun.
But it must be attempted, at any rate, so, unslinging his rifle, he set it at full cock as he galloped, held it pistol-wise in his hand, pointed it full at the huge bulk of the elephant, and pulled the trigger. The jar of the recoil nearly dislocated his elbow, and for a fraction of a second he feared that all was lost.
But his cries summoned two other fellows soldiers by the look of them who closed in on us, unslinging their rifles as they ran. My first idea was to show them our heels, but I had no desire to be shot in the back, and they looked like men who wouldn't stop short of shooting. So we slowed down and faced them. They made as savage-looking a trio as you would want to avoid.
"Know, O Nazarene, that you are in the presence of the Sheikh Boo Bucker Saakhi, chief of the Ouadlims," was the answer. Though the sheikh did not appear a man likely to be won over by soft speeches, I determined to persevere. Unslinging my telescope, I held it out to him. "Here is an instrument which will enable a person who looks through it to see ten times as far as he can with his naked eye.
So said Morgan, and I agreed that as far as the garden was concerned we had met with a pleasant surprise. "We'll have a good meal now," I said. "Let's sit down under the big cypress," and I pointed to the great tree which had proved so good a friend during the flood, and unslinging the bag which he had been carrying, Morgan led the way toward the resting-place.
Lanier, go to your room in arrest," and Bob saluted, turned, and went, unslinging the sword on the way. Now, that was the first touch to spoil that memorable December night, but it was only a feather to what followed. The waltz soon ceased, but the colonel called for an extra, and led out a lady from town, the wife of a future senator.
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