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The latter may be seen just beginning, perhaps, to sit up stiff on a woman's arm, or starting for a trial crawl over mother earth; and of them we remark that there is another little Ryan or Quigley; while the former stay sunning themselves so inertly, or totter about so shakily, that we notice at once how much old Sheridan, or the Widow Joyce, has failed since last year.
It was the reek of a skunk, stalked by a carnivore and defending itself as skunks do. But a skunk was nothing like a terror beam. Its effluvium offended only one sense, affected only one set of sensation nerves. The terror beam.... Lockley opened his mouth to laugh, but did not. The thing at the back of his mind had come forward. He was appalled. Jill said shakily, "What's the matter?
She smiled a quivering smile. And these were the bravest acts she had ever forced herself to perform. "You've done it now, partner!" she said shakily. "I'm nearly squeezed to death!" "Sylvia!" he said. Amazement, contrition, and even a curious dash of awe, were in his voice. He put his arm about her, supporting her. She leaned against him, panting, her face downcast.
The lad, who had tried to spring out of bed, and had succeeded only in climbing out rather slowly and shakily, looked up with a twinkle in his eye; then he answered very seriously: "Yes, sir; even them. I'd hate 'em. I'd hate to have the fellows see me in 'em; but I'd wear them forever, rather than make her cry again. I can't get over that.
His face was scratched, his teeth ached intolerably, but, beyond that.... He rose shakily to his feet. As he moved a swift, numbing pain shot from his right side, through his shoulder to his brain, where, apparently, it centered in a burning core of suffering. He choked unexpectedly on a warm, thick, salty tide welling into his throat. He said aloud, surprised, "Something's busted."
"See here, Billy," he exploded, a little shakily, "if I could get you off somewhere on a desert island, where there weren't any Aunt Hannahs or Kates, or Talks to Young Wives, I think there'd be a chance to make you happy; but " "Oh, but there was truth in it," interrupted Billy, sitting erect again.
"You are laughing at me, Bryde," said she in a little voice, shakily. "No, dear, no," said he, "I would be thinking of the Laird of Scaurdale if he kent, and me with a name to be making.
Una," she burst forth shakily, "as long as long's ever I live, I'll wish I hadn't done it, letting letting that Jack at a Pinch, as he called himself, that big, boorish boy, play friend in need to me-e again. Ugh-h!" Her stung lips quivered and were twisted, partly upon the after-taste of terror. "Humph! forget it oh-h! forget it," caroled the younger girl.
For a few moments she lay where she was, unable to control the trembling of her limbs, her aching eyes staring fixedly down at the still, prone figure on the ledge below. But the paralysing terror passed, and, at length, though still rather shakily, she dragged herself to her feet. She must go to him somehow she must get down to where he lay. At first she could think of no way of reaching him.
A girl appeared in the opening, desperately white and desperately composed. "H-how did you know I was there?" she asked shakily. She moistened her lips. "You didn't see me! I was in a closet, and you didn't even enter the room!" Calhoun said grimly, "I've sources of information. Murgatroyd told me this time. May I present him? Murgatroyd, our passenger. Shake hands."
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