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Updated: June 15, 2025
"Open the door," cried Ainger, accompanying his demand with a kick which made the timbers creak. "Your chimney's on fire!" Arthur rushed and opened the door, while Dig, once more with wonderful presence of mind, seized up the bath bucket and emptied it on the fire.
"Inconceivable," I murmured, as the wind, stirring it, made the tinder creak in the grate as it lay in thick masses; "simply inconceivable." I walked to the hearth and bent over the dog. He was already growing cold. He had not moved after his first fall. That vicious, brutal stab must have gone straight in to the heart. The knife was wet half way to the hilt.
"But you must write a note," said Uncle Beamish. "Got any paper?" I tore a leaf from my note-book, and went to the window, where it was barely light enough for me to see how to write. "Make it short," said the old man. "I'm awful fidgety to git off." I made it very short, and then, valises in hand, we quietly took our way to the kitchen. "How this floor does creak!" said Uncle Beamish.
He lowered it inch by inch so that it would not creak, then spread over it the Navajo rug that had been there before the entrance of the girl. Pierre Roubideau was still on his first pipe when Polly came round the corner of the house and stopped at the porch steps. "I want to show you our new colt, Jack," she said to the deputy.
The wheels groan and creak, the patient beasts turn in their dizzy circle, and the youngster seated on the wheel prods them with a sharp-pointed stick when they slacken. At least the water runs away in a continuous stream at the top, however tiny. Then the steamer takes a sharp turn, leaves the bank, and careers across into midstream!
Despite the enveloping folds about his head he could hear quite well; hear the horses' feet go squish-squash in the mud; hear the carriage creak on its aged hinges; hear the shriek of a distant locomotive as they approached the railroad. His captors were congratulating themselves on the success of their venture.
The president screwed up his eyes at his new glossy black suit, at his foppish cravat, at his moving lips; he listened and in his mind the languid thought seemed to spring up of itself: "Everyone wears a short jacket nowadays, why has he had his made long? Why long and not short?" The circumspect creak of boots was audible behind the president's back.
Perhaps a warning to every one that at that moment the ship had gone to the bottom? The sea always sends word of its evil doings; when the bread-winner is taken his family hear a shutter creak, or three taps on the windows that look on to the sea there are so many ways.
Every minute that passed seemed like an hour to Mike. Dead silence reigned in the dormitory, broken every now and then by the creak of the other bed, as the house-master shifted his position. Twelve boomed across the field from the school clock. Mike could not help thinking what a perfect night it must be for him to be able to hear the strokes so plainly.
"Come along. The door is just here. Yes; here it is." He seized the edge, and it gave forth its dismal creak again. "That's the wrong door," cried Scarlett, excitedly. "The one we just came through." "Is it?" said Fred, confusedly. "Yes, I suppose it is. Then we must try again. How stupid!"
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