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And now that same boiler is set up inside his head cling-clang ugh! A cold sweat breaks out upon his body; he throws down the axe; he must go must fly, escape somewhere where, he cannot tell. Faces that he hates to think of peer out at him from every corner, yapping out: "Heh! what did we say? To-day a beggar to-morrow a madman in a cell." But it may happen, too, that help comes in the night.
He would interview some one there and try to secure a good place in the press gallery. The Secretariat officials were kind to journalists, even to journalists on the British Bolshevist, a newspaper which was of no use to the League, and which the Secretariat despised, as they might despise the yapping of a tiresome and insignificant small dog.
There was the dog sure enough the same mealy-coloured mongrel, tied to a stake, yapping, and making frantic little runs on a bit of rusty chain; whirling round and round the stake, then standing quite still, and shivering. I went up and spoke to it, but it backed into the hay-stack, and there it stayed shrinking away from me, with its tongue hanging out.
Only the yapping of the dog Aida refused to be stilled. "Y' stay where y' are!" said Miss Trimble, as the speaker moved towards the window. She held the revolver poised, but for the first time that night possibly for the first time in her life she spoke irresolutely. Superbly competent woman though she was, here was a situation that baffled her.
"Wolves! listen to them!" exclaimed Miles, as a hideous yapping and howling sounded across the snowy waste.
"Ach, dammit, wha can be bothered wi' thae kind o' folk yapping roun' about when yer washin' yerself. He micht ken no' to come at this time, when men are comin' hame frae their work," and he went on with his splashing. "Here, gi'e my back a rub," and he lay over the tub while she washed his back from the shoulders downward, making it clean and free from the coal dust and grime.
He could do nothing for himself, let alone assist in the rescue of the owner of the crippled little limbs. The dog, darting about, barked wildly. As Nan stooped to lift the broken cab door off the apparently injured boy, the dog he was only a puppy ran yapping at her in a fever of apprehension. But his barking suddenly changed to yelps of joy as he leaped on Nan and licked her hands.
"You can make up your mind they're watching the cabin pretty close, and as soon as the dogs nose the open air they'll begin yapping 'n' let 'em on to us. We can't risk her under fire. So I'm going to back along the edge of the ridge and give it to 'em as fast as I can work the gun. They'll all turn to me, and that's the time for you to open the door and make your getaway.
You're a self-convicted crook, and if you make a peep out here I'll send you over the road for a thousand years!" "Another thousand now," said Marchmont: "and ten more when you commence to cash in. Otherwise, a thousand years or not, I'll start yapping here and queer your game." Corrigan's lips were in an ugly pout. For an instant it seemed he was going to defy his visitor.
She was interrupted by a yapping and caterwauling in the doorway, and sprang on the bed, her face white with terror, as a small terrier and the menagerie cat rolled into the room in a clawing, biting mix-up.
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