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Updated: June 17, 2025
It was clear and somewhat musical, lingering in the air with a dying cadence. As the waves of sound died slowly away there came silence and then the soft rustle of the leaves overhead. "What was that?" she whispered. "Don't know. Sounded like the closin' of a door." Both stood listening intently, but the sound was not repeated. "Well, good-bye," he said, holding out his hand.
The wakened sleeper heard the other man moving about in the velvety black gloom. "What 're you doing there?" was his sharp question as he heard the squeak and slam of a shutter. "Closin' this dead-light, of course," explained Tankred. A moment later he switched on the electric globe at the bunkhead. "We 're gettin' in pretty close now and we 're goin' with our lights doused!"
"'Gone home to Heaven together, said I, 'one day and one hour, and a prayer on their lips for the lad; and I closin' their eyes at the last. And before they went they made me sit by them and sing a song that's common here with us; for manny and manny of the strength and pride of Farcalladen Rise have sailed the wide seas north and south, and otherwhere, and comin' back maybe and maybe not.
Say, I worked my thinker overtime that trip; but I couldn't dig up a thing that was worth savin' from the scrap basket, and when I strolled into the office just about closin' time I wa'n't any nearer to knowin' what to do than when I started. Most everyone had left when I pushes through the gate and takes a peek into Piddie's office. He was there.
"This was too much for 'is nerves and, with a 'owl that could have been 'eard a mile away, the fisherman jumped from the dingey into the sea, the teeth of the moray closin' on the thwart where the man's foot 'ad been a minute before. There was a sound of splinterin', and the eel bit an inch of wood clear out of the board." "My word, there must have been power behind that jaw!" ejaculated Colin.
"Now, William," pursued the Governor, fearful in his heart that this would be Freckles' undoing, "why did you close the door of the shaft before you started down?" "Well, you see, sir," began Freckles, still tremulously, "I'm so used to closin' doors. Closin' doors has become a kind of second nature with me. I've been told about it so many times.
But I was wedded to cigarettes, so my banks are closin' down on me. Sure! That's what a man gets for smokin'." "And do you attribute all these misfortunes to Paloma's dressmaker?" The man nodded gloomily. "That ain't half! Everything goes wrong. I'm scared to pack a weapon for fear I'll injure myself.
He was always an amiable villain until roused. As the door closed behind him O'Brien leaned on his bar, and looked over at the back view of the still recumbent figure of Charlie Bryant. "I was thinkin' of closin' down, Charlie," he said quietly. Charlie looked around. Then, when he became aware that the room was entirely empty, he sprang up with a sudden start. He looked dazed.
That's why I jumps out before closin' time and mingles with the Jersey commuters in a lovely hot ride across the meadows.
In two hours, Andy, two hundred men will be blocking every trail and closin' in on you." And Andrew reluctantly admitted the truth of what he said. He resigned himself gloomily to turning back onto the mountain desert, and now he remembered the warning of failure which Henry Allister had given him.
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