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"I fear that we will be compelled to pass the night in this vile place. Marry! how it rains!" "It doth, Master Wainwright," answered one. "But better the storm than pass the night in the abode of a witch, and if yon dame be not the veriest witch in the kingdom then I ne'er saw one. The house makes me creepy. 'Tis fitting place for some dark deed to be committed.
Nora laughed rather loudly, and then the two turned squarely and the Wainwright party contemplated what were surely at that time the two most insolent backs in the world. The professor looked as if he might be going to have a fit. Mrs. Wainwright lifted her eyes toward heaven, and flinging out her trembling hands, cried: " Oh, what an outrage. What an outrage!
He dissolved the particle in some alcohol and with a sterilised needle repeated his experiment on a second mouse. The effect was precisely similar to that produced by the blood on the first. It did not seem to me that anyone showed any emotion except possibly the slight exclamation that escaped Miss Marian Wainwright.
If you can stand what is coming, we can; but I will make it lively for those people if anybody in the flotilla is injured." "I told Lieut. Wainwright to hail the steamer next him," writes Capt. Porter, "and tell her captain to pass the word for the others to veer out all their riding-chains to the bitter end, and stand by to sheer clear of the burning iron-clad as she drifted down.
"So Wainwright boils some more with indignation at the insensibility of people who are not corpulent to fill public positions; and then he tells me he is going out to the president's summer palace, which is four miles from Aguas Frescas, to instruct him in the art of running steam-heated republics. "'Come along with me, Trotter, says he, 'and I'll show you what brains can do.
The hunting was perilous; yet the boats, lowered day after day, were swallowed up in the grey obscurity, and were seen no more till nightfall, and often not till long after, when they would creep in like sea-wraiths, one by one, out of the grey. Wainwright the hunter whom Wolf Larsen had stolen with boat and men took advantage of the veiled sea and escaped.
They were all Christian peasants of Turkey, but they were in flight now because they did not wish to be at home if the Turk was going to return and reap revenge for his mortification. The Wainwright party looked at Coleman in abrupt questioning. "Oh, it's all right," he said, easily. "They are always taking on that way."
I tried to stagger to my feet. "Wait a bit," said Wainwright. "You'll get your head in a minute." I felt acutely conscious already that I had my head. It seemed a very large head that had suffered from an internal explosion. "What is it?" I asked, gathering my scattered wits. "What has happened?" "We've been licked," said Wainwright regretfully. "The rest of the boys got took, but we got in here.
But the. boys tell- me that he did actually rescue you." "Yes, he did," said the professor. " It was a very gallant performance, and we are very grateful." "Of course," spoke Mrs. Wainwright, "we might have rescued ourselves. We were on the right road, and all we had to do was to keep going on." " Yes, but I understand-" said the minister.
But the iron-bound beams and heavy lock had been built to resist police raids, and the door came down with difficulty. At last it was shaking and yielding, and almost as Luella spoke it swayed, bent apart, and broke with a crash, and with a babel of shouts Corson, Porter, Barkhouse and Wainwright, with two more policemen, poured through the opening.
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