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They're working in ahead of us. Here, I'll have a shot at 'em, for luck!" A howl followed the second spurt of flame in the dusk. One of the gray, gaunt portents of death licked, yapping, at his flank. "Got you, all right!" gibed Stern. "The kind o' game you're after isn't as easy as you think, you devils!" But now from the other side, and from behind them, the slinking creatures gathered.
Nature, however, has ways of revenging herself." "Yes, indeed," said Sanchia soberly. They walked on together, she by this time very much absorbed. She was not conscious of the shifting crowd, the lifting of hats, the chatter, the yapping dogs that ran in and out of women's skirts. Presently he spoke again. "You believe that you failed?" Her voice came low. "I know that I failed."
To guide the ship, constantly to baffle the sea and wind, the turbulence, buffeting bows and run and counter, smashing at the rudder, leaping always like a pack of yapping hounds this was a thing that left the days of his water-front detail far behind. And then he had thought himself in the whirl of things!
"Why, he . . . he barked!" But this indisputable fact in no way disconcerted the miscreant. "I heard a dog yapping," he said with consummate impudence, "but I thought he was in the next room. No wonder," he added coolly, "since he was in a wall cupboard." "A wall cupboard," the gendarme rejoined triumphantly, "situated in the very room which you occupy at this moment."
He snatched his automatic from its holster on his hip and as the plane swept past the beach, down-stream, let fly a spatter of steel jacketed souvenirs at the fast-thickening pack on the sand. Far up to the girl and him, half heard through the clatter of the motors, they sensed a thin, defiant, barbarous yell a yapping chorus, bestial and horrible. Again Stern fired.
Far behind them there rose the yapping and howling of dogs. "They're after us with the dogs!" groaned Pelliter. "I can't ride. I've got to run and fight!" "You get on the sledge, or I'll stave your head in!" commanded MacVeigh. "Face the enemy, Pelly, and give 'em hell. You've got three rifles there. You can do the shooting while I hustle on the dogs.
He never had seen a woman who had suggested ever so faintly the thought that he should like to place it on her finger. There had been women, of a kind "Peroxide Louise," in Meadows, with her bovine coquetry and loud-mouthed vivacity, yapping scandal up and down the town, the transplanted product of a city's slums, not even loyal to the man who had tried to raise her to his level.
Dreamily I watched the craft creep by upon the moving tide, noted the low freeboard, almost awash, the careful helmswoman, and the dog on the forecastle yapping at the distant shore and thought of Ruth Bellingham. What was there about this strange girl that had made so deep an impression on me? That was the question that I propounded to myself, and not for the first time.
We were not really going very fast on account of the splashy mud; but what with the roaring echo of the motor, the dripping of water, the narrowness of the tunnel, the yapping of our little dog, the shouts of the man in the cart, and the strangeness of the picture ahead just like a lighted disc on the screen of a magic lantern it did seem as if everybody concerned must come to awful grief in about three seconds.
The effects of the blow he had received still handicapped him. He struggled to remember, but without result. Gentleman Jack reached the door and opened it: and as he did so a shrill yapping, hitherto inaudible because of the intervening oak and the raised voices within, made itself heard from the passage outside. Gentleman Jack closed the door with a hasty bang.
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