[The Valley of the Moon by Jack London]@TWC D-Link bookThe Valley of the Moon CHAPTER IV 21/41
The storm center had shifted to the young man with the cane.
After the yell, he had one moment of indecision; then he turned and darted up the track. "Go it, sport!" Bert cheered, waving his hat in the air.
"You're the goods for me! Who'd a-thought it? Who'd a-thought it? Say!--wouldn't it, now? Just wouldn't it ?" "Phew! He's a streak himself," Billy admired.
"But what did he do it for? He's no bricklayer." Like a frightened rabbit, the mad roar at his heels, the young man tore up the track to an open space on the hillside, up which he clawed and disappeared among the trees.
Behind him toiled a hundred vengeful runners. "It's too bad he's missing the rest of it," Billy said.
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