...import to me. It was nothing else than the alarming question which the one put to the other, namely, " Whether shall we cut his throat or strangle him ?"...the wretched apartment in which I was domiciled out at which I might make my escape, and to have attempted to get out by the door would have been equally...

...were carrying on together in a low, suppressed tone of voice. 1 caught one sentence quite distinctlys and that one was of fearfully ominous import to me...equally fruitless : for, from the sound of their voices, 1 knew they were both at the door of my apartment. There seemed no possibility, therefore, of escape...

...lying, and that so the lady must be exposed to certain discovery, and consequently to instant death. What was to be done ? Not a moment was to be lost. Taking advantage of a double which the sow was compelled to make, in consequence of someone having...

...breaking, and that now only three or four strands of it held him and his darling child from destruction. What was to be done? Not a moment was to be lost ; for manifestly the rope was not strong enough to bring them both to the surface, and therefore either one...

...breaking, and that now only three or four strands of it held him and his darling child from destruction. What was to be done: Not a moment was to be lost; for manifestly the rope was not strong enough to bring them both to the surface, and therefore either one...

...alight from a firstclass carriage, and look about them anxiously. Luckily, Clementina was in the saloon. What was to be done ? Not a moment was to be lost. Jack was equal to the emergency. Without saying a word to me he jumped on to the landing stage, and,...

...lying, and that so the lady must be exposed to certain discovery, and consequently to instant death. What was to be done? Not a moment was to be lost. Taking advantage of a double which the sow was compelled to make, in consequence of some one having...

...as long as day-light lasted, and by night thereport of the lost child was spread in every direction. What was to be done ? Not a moment was to be lost, for now it was the belief of all that the natives had taken her. " Early the next morning, every one who...