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They built a fire, opened cans of soup and vegetables. "The Waldorf has nothing on that," Pete Murphy said when they stopped, gorged. "Say, remember to look for smokes, all of you," Ralph Addington admonished them suddenly. "You betchu!" groaned Honey Smith, and his look became lugubrious.
In spite of himself, there was a wavering note of uncertainty in it. "Oh, we'll get them yet!" Ralph said. "How about it, old fellow?" Ralph had never lost his old habit of turning to Frank in psychological distress. But Frank again kept silence. "Betchu we find them at home to-night," Honey said as they started down the trail an hour ahead of time. "Who'll take me. Come!"
We'll get them yet, I betchu!" All of Honey's sex-pride flared in this buoyant assurance. It had apparently not yet occurred to him that he would not conquer Lulu in the end and conquer her by merely submitting to her wooing of him. And in the meantime, the voiceless tete-a-teteing of the five couples continued.
In spite of his scowl, a certain tenderness, half of past admiration, half of present pride, gleamed in his eyes. "You betchu they have. They've been practising running and jumping and leaping and vaulting and God only knows what else. Well, we've only got to keep this up two or three days longer and they'll come back." Honey spoke in a tone which palpably he tried to make jaunty.
But he had caught a look in her eyes that caused his heart to lose a beat, then to thump like a bass drum in martial band. He was made suddenly aware that he was gawking after her with his mouth hanging open and his eyes bulging, by the delighted snickers of a pair of impertinent door boys and the suppressed comment of one, "Betchu a nickel she's thrown him down! Gee! Ain't he got it bad!"
My bear her bear a great fight! Everybody in to see it. Nothing like a bear-fight, eh? S'prise her, won't it pretty little wench! When she sees her bear fighting mine? Betchu hundred dollars my bear kills Tara!" "To-morrow," said David. "I'll bet to-morrow. Where's the shack?" He was anxious to reach that, and he hoped it was a good distance away.
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