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But he is not far wrong this time. The man who could defeat De Roberval is indeed a monarch among men." There was a steel-like ring in his voice as he spoke; Cartier and De Pontbriand looked at each other, and both wondered what fate he had in store for La Pommeraye. "But," he continued, "we have much work before us to-night, let us settle down to it at once.
And somehow, in a fashion for which he could not account, especially in the disturbed and anxious state of his mind, he became aware that here in this strange woman was some mental force which was superior to and was already dominating his own, and for a moment he was tempted to shake the steel-like fingers off and make a dash for the moorlands.
Wrapped in his blanket, he stealthily slipped the golden circlet over his little finger, and, as he averred, "slept all the better for it." Whether it ever evoked any warmer dream or vision during those calm, cold, virgin-like spring nights, when even the moon and the greater planets retreated into the icy blue, steel-like firmament, I cannot say.
"Well, you are not so precious good yourself." "I'm not at all good. We'll try to be good together." "It will be fun our both trying," said Irene, looking at her with a comical expression. "How are we to begin? Shall we do penance like the old monks? Do you know, Rosamund" here Irene linked her thin, almost steel-like little hand inside Rosamund's arm "that I am a most voracious reader?
The first intimation Usanga had that all was not well with him was when the girl slipped suddenly to his side and grasped the control and at the same instant steel-like fingers seized his throat. A brown hand shot down with a keen blade and severed the strap about his waist and giant muscles lifted him bodily from his seat. Usanga clawed the air and shrieked but he was helpless as a babe.
Arms and legs writhed about one another, the long fingers dug deep into the very cliff to get a hold, the mighty ribs formed arches, which held up primeval trees. It had happened, however, that the iron arms, the steel-like fingers with which the pines held themselves fast, had given way, and a pine had been borne by a mighty north wind from the top of the cliff down into the pool.
The talk drifted in a desultory manner round various ordinary topics, and I, moving a little aside, took a seat near the window where I could watch the moon-rays striking a steel-like glitter on the still waters of Loch Scavaig, and at the same time hear all that was being said without taking any part in it.
The broken fan was flung violently to the floor, and Mrs. Rutherford sprang to her feet, her face livid with passion and her blue eyes blazing with a steel-like light. "How dare you come here to assert such falsehoods?" she cried. "You have always hated me you and all the rest of your haughty family because it pleased Clement Rutherford to marry me me, a penniless governess.
Before he could rise, the steel-like grip of the roused preacher sent him halfway to the door, and then out into the dirt of the road. Turning, Pill strode down the aisle once more. The half-risen congregation made way for him, curiously. By this time the other brothers had recovered from their stupor, and, with wild curses, leaped over the benches toward the fearless preacher.
In a quick choking clutch of steel-like muscle they gripped about his neck like powerful arms and in another instant he was twisted backward with a force that sent him half neck-broken to the opposite wall.
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