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And he sat there so long so long after his hopes and wishes had flown over to Sark and hurried Bernel and Nance into a boat and landed them on L'Etat that the night seemed running out, and he began to fear they were not coming, after all. In the troubled darkness of the Race, he caught gleams at times which might be oar-blades or might be only the upfling from the perils below.
Now when Jinnie first heard that he wished to see her, she thought her heart could beat no faster, but his words made that small organ tattoo against her sides like the flutter of a bird's wing in fright. She could do something for him! Oh, what joy! What unutterable joy! "We're going to have some friends here Sunday evening " The sudden upfling of Jinnie's head cut off his words.
He could not be himself here. The shock had been too great. His mind seemed stultified. "Hardman do you mean do you think you're taking her away?" queried Pan, as if strangling. "Ha!" returned Hardman with an upfling of head, arrogant, vain for all his fear. "I know it.... She's my wife!" Destruction, death itself seemed to overthrow Panhandle Smith's intensity of life. He reeled on his feet.
And it boded ill to the men in that dark square stone house down the road. He paced to and fro in the yard, back and forth on the path to the gate, and then he entered the cabin to stalk up and down, faster and faster, until all at once he halted as if struck, to upfling his right arm in a singular fierce gesture. "Jean, call the men in," he said, tersely.
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