All of a sudden he uttered a great cry, and bolted out into the darkness unheeded by Gale and Burrell, who stood dazed and distraught with a fear greater than that which was growing in Stark at sight of his wounds.
Burrell never doubted thatStark had carefully weighed the effect of this upon Necia, and had reasoned that a girl like her could not understand a soldier's duty if it meant the blood of a parent.
Nevertheless, he chose it, for Ben Stark was too potent a force for evil to be at large, and needed extermination as truly as if he were some dangerous beast.
Well, whenever Ben Stark 'kindly' offers anything, I'm in on the play.
It wouldn't be easy going for them after they got there," Stark said, sourly.
Stark cursed affrightedly, for it is a terrible thing to bleed to death in the dark, and in spite of himself the Lieutenant wavered.
Moreover, malice was so bitter in his mouth that he must have it out, so when they paused to blaze the next stake he addressed himself to Stark loud enough for Poleon to hear.
It was Poleon's deal now, and when he had finished both Stark and Runnion had disappeared, also the man they had accosted, which pleased the Canadian, for now that Runnion was eliminated from the game he might win a little.
Lee answered him unintelligibly; Stark said nothing, but Runnion's exclamation was plain.
Few men had dared to look at Stark thus and live; for when a man has once shed the blood of his fellow, a mania obsesses him, a disease obtains that is incurable.
The others followed, although Stark and Runnion looked black and had little to say.
From below rose the reiterated boom of the baulked waves, each thud against the base of the great crag seeming to shake her whole being, while, whichever way she looked, menacing headlands towered stark and pitiless above the sea.
Stark is passed along the line-- A thousand eyes more keenly mark where gathering foes combine.
Then Dixon suddenly froze into stark immobility, staring with startled eyes at the base of a rocky crag thirty yards away.
This moon was a deep and baleful green; was glowing with a stark malignant fire like that which lurks in the blazing heart of a giant emerald!
Proverbs are short maxims of human wisdom, the result of experience and observation, and are the gifts of ancient sages; yet the proverb which is not aptly applied, instead of being wisdom, is stark nonsense.
And when Tristan, stark with horror, dared not trust himself to speak, Odo concluded: "This is the peril that confronts us!
His own body, lying cold and stark beside the desolated bier, would be but an incident in the work of profanation they would find; an item that in no wise could modify the conclusion at which they would naturally arrive.
He's already as dead as a salt mackerel--laid out stiff and stark by his own bull-headed stupidity.
Evasions and lies had gotten him into this mess; now he would see what stark truth would do.
I ask, therefore, Wast thou ever killed stark dead by the law of works contained in the Scriptures?
I have clung to you when all reviled, and when starvation within and foul words without made all my hire; for I ever thought you a good and mild man, though little better than stark wode.
At length it becamestark calm, and as dark as the shrouded moon would let it.
The frigate was about a mile to the northward of us, looming like a seventy-four, as she glimmered through the hot blue haze that hung over the horizon, and circumscribed our view on all sides, for it was stark calm.
The echo came sometimes, as it were, from stark rock, and sometimes from the deep gloom of the forests.
Round the horns of land which enclose the bay the coast shows on either side a battlement of stark red cliffs through which a burn or two makes a pass to the water's edge.
No fishermen came this way, the lobster-pots being all to the east, and the stark headland of the Red Neb made the road to them by the water's edge difficult.
With the strange power of a dying man he tore off his leopard-skin and belt till he stood stark as on the night when he had been crowned.
High overhead billions and billions of stars winked solemnly down on a world seemingly gone stark raving mad with war.
To remove all manner of doubt, and be assured that this was not a trick, they used to have her stripped stark naked, and caused her mouth and nose to be stopped.
I am stark mad for want of business, and would work like any two yokes of oxen.
Though each of them admired the stark courage and the flawless fortitude he knew to dwell in the other, impassivity sat on their faces like an ice-mask.
For stark fear stared at him, naked and unconcealed, and back of that he glimpsed a subtle something that he dimly recognized for the outraged maidenly modesty he had so ruthlessly trampled upon.
The picture rose before him of a man in a Berserk rage, stark mad for the moment, playing Destiny on that lonely, moonlit hill.
He would have given much to know just how much was imagination and how much was stark reality.
THE DOOM OF STARK HOUSE Mystery and terror in an old house in the wilderness above Quebec where Hal Keen is the guest of a strange family.
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