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Updated: June 13, 2025
The next instant another pair of scouts swung into view, when again out snapped that ominous, double, whiplike crack.
In some way O'Grady had got word to her, and it was the Cummins' canoe that was waiting for him! With a strange cry Jan lifted the bow of the canoe to his shoulder and led Jackpine in a run. His strength had returned. He did not feel the whiplike sting of boughs that struck him across the face. He scarcely looked at the little cabin of logs when they passed it.
At the thin, vicious crack of it, Silk collapsed. She understood then. With her hand pressed hard over her mouth to keep back the hysterical scream that threatened, she fled to the house. Behind her the rifle spat forth its staccato message of death. For a few seconds the mountains flung whiplike echoes back and forth in a volley. Then the sibilant voice of the wind alone broke the stillness.
But the gods had decided otherwise, for the whiplike crack of rifles suddenly cut the air, and the bullets fell so thick around the pursuers that the three men could almost breathe lead. Half a mile away, on the far side of the donga, appeared a squad of Yeomanry, blazing away like veritable seraphs at Brabant and his men, whilst they let the flying Boer go free.
On its surface pleasure boats lay at their moorings by jetties and boatsheds; groups of stiff-necked swans sailed or ducked and straddled; while shady walks followed the banks, where the whiplike branches of the willows, showing shoots of tenderest green, trailed in the water or swayed like loose harp-strings to the breeze.
The silence of a ritual faces stiffened, eyes rolling a rigid embrace of men and women creeping cunningly among the revolving colors and the whiplike rhythms of the jazz band. "Lost souls," says the vice reports, and the vice reports speak with a calm and knowing voice. Women whose bodies and faces are like shells of evil; vicious seeming men with a rasp in their laughter.
It approached with such a shrill sound, with such indescribable swiftness, with so fierce a threat, that the sound seemed to be visible, as though you could actually see a screaming semicircle rise in the air, bite its way to one's very forehead, and snap there with a short, hard, whiplike crack.
But she gave him his quittance in a whiplike retort. "And you will stand here talking about it when every moment is precious? Go!" she commanded; and he went. So now we are to conceive the maddest activity leaping into being in full view of the watchers at the windows of the private car. Winton's chilled and sodden army, welcoming any battle-cry of action, flew to the work with a will.
From up on the mountain where the old mountaineer had walked into the face of death there came the sharp, splitting report of a rifle; and in that same instant it was followed by another and still a third quick, stinging, whiplike reports and he knew that not one of them had come from the gun of Donald MacDonald! And then he saw that the rocks behind the tepee had become suddenly alive with men!
Then Harlan knew Morgan was using his gun, for its roaring crash mingled with the whiplike crack of a rifle. The firing had ceased when Harlan slipped off Purgatory at the open door; and both his guns were out as he leaped over the threshold. He halted, though, standing rigid, his guns slowly swagging in his hands, their muzzles drooping.
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