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"An' the bridal couple 'd be holdin' hands an' gazin'
over the spanker-boom at the full moon." [Page 242.]
RUNNING FREE
BY
JAMES B. CONNOLLY
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK ::::::::::::::::::::: 1917
COPYRIGHT, 1913, 1915, 1917, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Published September, 1917
COPYRIGHT, 1912, 1913, 1917, BY P. F. COLLIER & SON, INCORPORATED
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
"An' the bridal couple'd be holdin' hands an' gazin'over the spanker-boom at the full moon" _Frontispiece_
"All stand clear of the main entrance"
"It was drive, drive, drive, from midnight to daylight"
It took till the daylight was all but gone before Iknocked him down for the last time
"You doubted my courage, maybe?" I asked
"'Quiscanto vascamo mirajjar,' which is Yunzanofor 'I am satisfied, I can now die happy'"
The Strategists
I arrived in Santacruz in the early evening,and as I stepped out of the carriage with thechildren the majordomo came rushing out fromunder the hotel portales and said: "MeesusTrench, is it? Your suite awaits, madam. TheLieutenant Trench from the American warshiphas ordered, madam."
There was a girl, not too young, sitting over ata small table, and at the name Trench, pronouncedin the round voice of the majordomo, she—well,she was sitting by herself, smoking a cigarette,and I did not know why she should smile andlook at me—in just that way, I mean. But Ican muster some poise of manner myself when Ichoose—I looked at her. And she looked meover and smiled again. And I did not like thatsmile. It was as if—as Ned would say—she hadsomething on me.
She and I were to be enemies—already I sawthat. She was making smoke rings, and shenever hurried the making of a single one of themas she looked at me; nor did I hurry a particlethe ush