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The whistle's call sent them off to the fray, for there were but three minutes left of the first half. Cobber won the kick but didn't carry it far. Gridley got down as far as the enemy's twenty-yard line. Then the smaller High School boys were fairly pushed back into their own territory, losing twelve yards of their own side of the field. Trill-ll! The first half was over.
Down the steep was galloping at breakneck speed a great, tawny shape. Barking rapturously, even as he had barked when first the whistle's blast had roused him from his lazy repose in the lakeside shallows, Lad came whizzing toward the two humans who watched so incredulously his wild approach.
Hardly thinking what she did, she raised the whistle to her lips, and blew a loud, shrill whistle on it. Her mother started. "O Mercy, don't, don't!" she cried. "I can't bear to hear it." "Now, mother, don't you be foolish," said Mercy, cheerily. "A whistle's a whistle, old or young, and made to be whistled with. We'll keep this to amuse children with: you carry it in your pocket.
"Um-hm," he declared. "Settled's the word. The whistle's piped to quarters. All hands, alow and aloft, are ordered to report on board the good ship Gould's Bluffs Lighthouse, Cap'n Jethro Hallet commandin', on Friday next, the er I-forget-what of this month, at seven bells in the " "Zach! Zach!" broke in Lulie. "Stop it! What are you talking about?"
"How far am I from the Station?" he shouted. It was Thornly's voice! It was the little whistle's call that had stilled the storm, and brought hope! Janet could not answer. All power seemed gone from her. When he came close he would know her and then why, why had he come? The girl had forgotten her disfiguring garments. Thornly was within a foot of her before he understood. Then he reeled back.
"Wot's 'appened?" For one moment her sleepy brain confused him with the diabolical noise overhead. "Nothin'," he answered, "'cept that you must tumble out quick, you two. We're off Avonmouth, an' the whistle's goin' for the old man."
She had taken off her shoes and stockings, for the dew lay heavy upon the ground; and these, wrapped in a fish net, were flung across her shoulder. There was a good half mile to tread before the little hut could be reached bodily, but the whistle's call, going on before, would open the gates of Paradise if Thornly were there! The girl did not put her doubt to the test just yet.
Then they drove leisurely through Sefton Park, thence townward to the station. They had a few moments to wait, during which the driver stroked the horse's nose, talking to him all the while not to be afraid of the noisy cars. The whistle's shrill pipe sounded and the train rolled in. The captain stood by his horse, while Lucy went to the platform, and met Chester as he leaped from the car.
But by the common impulse of military training, no less than in answer to the whistle's call, in face of the withering fire they dropped to earth at the base of the knoll, where Hugo threw himself down at full length in his place in line next to Peterkin. "Fire pointblank at the crest in front of you! I saw a couple of men standing up there!" called Fracasse. "Fire fast!
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