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He followed that impulse long enough to throw himself sidling along the floor, so as not to betray his real strategic position to those at the door, and he splashed two bullets into the wall, trimming the side of the window. Only clear, deep-throated laughter came in response. "I told you, boys. I read his mind, and he's mad at me, eh?" But Riley Sinclair hardly heard the mocking answer.
"General Alderson, commanding the reinforcements, directed an advance by a British brigade which had been brought up in support. "As the troops making it swept through the Canadian left and center, many of them going to certain death, they paused for an instant with deep-throated cheers for Canada, indicating the warm admiration which the Canadians' exertions had excited in the British army.
It was large and roomy, and a table drawn up before the hearth was spread for the evening meal. A great fire of pine boughs blazed in the deep-throated fireplace filling the room with fragrance and cheerfulness. The maidens ran to it with exclamations of pleasure. "Oh!" cried Sally with a deep breath. "How pleasant and homey it is.
Thrice they were lifted and at each uplifting there rose a deep-throated cry of Hiya, which is the Arabic for She, and I suppose was a salutation to Ayesha. She swept on taking no heed, till we came to the centre of the square where a number of men were gathered who prostrated themselves in the usual fashion. Motioning to them to rise she said,
"Then you mean that you are going to help search for them?" asked Mr. Hazlett. "With all my heart, sir!" said the rough commander. "I have boys of my own back in New England. We'll comb this island rock by rock, and if we suspect foul play we'll blow every native village off the face of it!" The hoarse roar of the Bennington's deep-throated signal-whistles echoed along the rock-bound shore.
When he essayed the intimacy of patting the dog's head, some of the onlookers doubted him, for Chance received these overtures with a deep-throated growl. "He won't let nobody touch him but that Sundown gent," cautioned a bystander. "Guess he's loco since he got chewed up," said Fadeaway, retreating. Chance licked his wounds and recovered slowly.
"Salaam, Bellairs sahib!" boomed his deep-throated voice, and Lieutenant Bellairs stepped back with a start into the doorway again one hand on his sword-hilt. The Indian moved sidewise to where the lamplight from the room above could fall upon his face. "Salaam, Bellairs sahib!" he boomed again. Then the lieutenant recognized him. "You, Mahommed Khan!" he exclaimed.
He listened, and it came again; but in the middle of it, when the long, moaning grief of the voice was rising to its full despair, there broke in a sharp interruption a shrieking, yelping cry, such as a dog makes when it is suddenly struck. In another moment the forest thrilled with the deep-throated pack-call of the wolf who has started a fresh kill.
Into the dream, appropriately enough, ran the neigh of a horse, long drawn and shrill of pitch, interrupted by a sudden burst of deep-throated curses from the riders. The six mares had come to a halt with their beautiful heads raised to listen, and on a far-off hill, Mary saw the signaler a chestnut horse gleaming red in the morning light. "It's him!" shouted Hervey.
At nine o'clock that same evening Jim Herrick, alone in his shabby yet delightful little sitting-room, was roused from his contemplation of an etching he had picked up in town that day by a deep-throated bark from Olga. She had been lying in the hall; and doubtless her sharp ears had heard some approaching footstep which to his duller human hearing was inaudible.
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