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Thoroughly shaken, Jack again turned for his hat and again faltered between the chair and the door. "You there, Jack?" clicked Alex. "Hang on, old boy. Keep your nerve." Clenching his teeth and gripping his hands Jack regained control of himself, and returned to the instruments. "Thanks, Al," he sent. "I was about all in, sure enough.
Presently Bobbie Brown rode up and left his bicycle inside the gate. Soon he was followed by Alex Davidson and Andy Ford. Then came a long wait. At length two figures loomed in the dusk. "Who's there?" Don called eagerly. "Ritter and Woods," came the answer. Don suddenly knew the cause of that vague uneasiness.
So it was Alex, Jack Bailey, who had been our ghost. Not only had he alarmed Louise and himself, he admitted on the circular staircase, but he had dug the hole in the trunk-room wall, and later sent Eliza into hysteria.
How glad I am for his mother's sake that Rob's lameness will keep him at home. Mr. F., Mr. S., and Uncle Ralph are beyond the age for active service, and Edith says Mr. D. can't go now. She is very enthusiastic about other people's husbands being enrolled, and regrets that her Alex is not strong enough to defend his country and his rights. July 22. What a day!
"Oh, keep your feet still!" Alex Davidson said at last. Tim rolled a page of his pad into a ball and shot it across the table. The missile struck Ritter on the nose. Tim giggled, and made another ball, and shot this one at Andy Ford. "Cut it out!" Andy said good-naturedly. "You'll get papers all over the floor." Tim grinned, and rolled another cartridge.
The only trouble is, Miss Innes, they won't be apt to come back for a while." "I shouldn't regard that in the light of a calamity," I replied. Until late that evening Halsey and Alex worked at the chute. They forced down the ladder at last, and put a new bolt on the door. As for myself, I sat and wondered if I had a deadly enemy, intent on my destruction. I was growing more and more nervous.
But there are still many old-fashioned people who arrogate to themselves the right of settling their daughters' lives, who have so trained them that resistance to family wishes becomes almost an impossibility. A good suitor presents himself, parental pressure is brought to bear and the deed is done. Witness the case of Alex. In a few years she probably would have chosen for herself, wisely.
Scarcely had Alex reached the doorway of the deserted house when he was startled by a chorus of excited voices from the rear. He turned quickly to a window, and with a cry sprang back out of sight.
Alex is the name of somebody who, long ago, when Cousin Helen was well and strong, she loved, and expected to marry." "Oh! why didn't she?" cried Katy. "She met with a dreadful accident," continued Dr. Carr. "For a long time they thought she would die.
"No," said Alex, "but it is perfectly safe. I tried it this morning, and it is as firm as this marble chimney-piece." "He is pretty well to be trusted," said his grandfather, "more especially as it would be difficult to get drowned there." "I would give a shilling to anyone who could drown himself there," said Alex. "The travelling man did," exclaimed at once Carey, John, and Richard.
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