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While Rasputin, having thrown off his cloak of piety, was leading a dissolute life in far-off Pokrovsky, and refusing to obey the Empress's repeated invitations, the guns of Peter and Paul one day boomed forth salvo after salvo, announcing to the world that the prayer uttered by the Starets before our Lady of Kazan had been granted. An heir had been born to the Romanoffs!
Indeed, he felt that some one approached him, some one for whom he had been waiting, yet it was a sad expectancy, and more like homesickness than anything he knew. "Aw, hell," said Vic Gregg, "it's spring." A deep-throated echo boomed back at him, and the sound went down the gulch, three times repeated.
"Of course we must speak to those ridiculous old men, but after that we can just stay together. It will be lots more fun." "Here comes Miss Ann Peyton!" the whisper went around the hall. "Well, if it isn't Cousin Ann!" Big Josh Bucknor boomed to his daughters. "For goodness sake don't ask her to go home with us," begged those ladies. Big Josh slapped his leg and laughed aloud.
Silence, during which the smoke thickened and the pup whined softly in his sleep. Out upon the night the cathedral bell boomed the third hour of morning. "If you don't mind, Artie," said Max, yawning, "I'll turn in. I've been traveling for the past fortnight." "Take a ride on Dandy in the morning. He'll hold your weight nicely. I can't go with you, as I've a lame ankle."
The company were staring at him solemnly, and as he attempted to rise, they fell prostrate on their faces. Up flew the poor flimsy Scarecrow again, such was the draught, and this time landed on his face. He was beginning to feel terribly annoyed, but before he could open his mouth or stand up, a deep voice boomed: "He has come!"
The blood was bulging his thick neck. It was another kind of passion that obsessed him. Only some violent check to his emotion prevented him from embracing Slone. The huge fists unclenched and the big fingers worked. "You mean to tell me you did fer Cordts an' Hutch what you did fer Sears?" he boomed out. "They're dead gone, Bostil honest to God!" replied Slone.
But just at that moment boomed the loud detonation of the roer; and, then, like lesser echoes, the reports of the smaller guns on the right and left, while Swartboy shouted at the top pitch of his voice, from another quarter. A look back showed the quaggas that they were well-nigh surrounded by strange enemies.
Hatton talked with Drake and cordially approved the plan; and in a short time, in command of a squadron of five tight little vessels Drake sailed westward, while the trumpets blared and the cannon boomed in his honor. Drake himself was in command of a little ship which he called the Golden Hind, and Doughty was his second in command over the entire squadron.
"Chee!" said Murgatroyd. The heavy voice boomed. "You there! This is a human-occupied world! If you come in peace, cut your drive and let our guard ship approach!" Murgatroyd replied in an interested but doubtful tone. The booming voice bellowed. Another voice of higher authority took over. Murgatroyd was entranced that so many people wanted to talk to him.
Kow clinked dishes somewhere in a faraway kitchen, and the fog-horn boomed and was still-boomed and was still. But here on the porch there was no sound. "Cherry, tell me that you care for me a little?"
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