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But just then a door opened behind him, and Dick Prescott caught the uplifted fist in tight, vise-like hold. "Don't do that, Cartwright," he advised. "Let me alone," insisted the other striving though failing to release his captured wrist. "Don't do anything rash, Cartwright. Listen to good sense; then I am going to let go of your wrist.
The chute chambered ten grown cattle, and when clutched in a vise-like embrace, with bars fore and aft, the actual branding, at the hands of two trail foremen, was quickly over. The main herd was cut into half a dozen bunches, and before the noon hour arrived, the last hoof had passed under the running irons and bore the new owner's brand or tally-mark.
One vise-like hand was fastened upon the back of his neck and the other upon his wrist, turning the muzzle of the revolver upward, so that it pointed toward the roof of the cabin. This is what we referred to when we stated that if it had not been for Jack Gray's courage and prompt action, it is probable that the brig would never have been recaptured.
Moths have scorched their wings before now, and will always continue to do so." Her head rested slightly against his shoulder; her breath fanned his cheek; her eyes, soft and lustrous, sought his. But he looked away gloomy and defiant, and she felt his grasp tighten vise-like around her.
Then came the call. Out of the blackness of the moor it came, wild and distant "Help! help!" "Smith!" I whispered "what is it? What..." "Mr. Smith!" came the agonized cry... "Nayland Smith, help! for God's sake...." "Quick, Smith!" I cried, "quick, man! It's Van Roon he's been dragged out... they are murdering him..." Nayland Smith held me in a vise-like grip, silent, unmoved!
She reached backward for the reassuring hand: it was not there, and the next instant the hungry pool rose up to engulf her. In all his years Thomas Jefferson had never had such a stab as that which an instantly awakened conscience gave him when she slipped and fell. Now he was her murderer, beyond any hope of future mercies. For a moment the horror of it held him vise-like.
I returned with them to F deck, the lady who had addressed me holding my arm all the time in a vise-like grip, much to my amusement, and we found a steward in her gangway who took them in and found their lifebelts.
The young man occupied a decrepit camp stool, placed conveniently against the trunk of another tree hard by. A discarded bamboo rod lay beside him on the bank, the hook and line hopelessly tangled in the drift below. He smoked cigarettes. His companion held a well-chewed black cigar in the vise-like corner of his mouth.
The next instant Dane was by her side, while a blow from the clenched fist of his right hand sent the cowardly villain reeling back among the trees. Then like a tiger Dane was upon him, his fingers clutching his throat as he pinned him to the ground. The fallen man fought and struggled desperately to tear away that fearful vise-like grip, but all in vain.
In a moment they were on; in another he was following the very respectable young woman down-stairs; in a third he was scrambling after her into the carriage; in a fourth they were rattling wildly over the wet, stony streets; in a fifth the reverend gentleman was grasped in a vise-like grip, and a voice close to his ear a man's voice hissed: "Speak one word, make the least outcry, and you are a dead man!"
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