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Would she really have courage to undertake the trip to a big city and then ? But she, too, had made a promise, and she, too, felt the voice of the dead father and the voice or the neglected child crying for justice. Dorothy Dale did not hesitate she would go. Next morning Tavia bounced around like a toy balloon.
Once again John told his story, from beginning to end. As he related it the mayor sat upright in his chair, listening so intently to every word that the fire at the end of his cigar died out and the ash dropped unnoticed on his coat front. When John concluded the mayor bounced out of his chair, circled his desk and seizing him by the hand exclaimed: "My boy, you've done it!"
Galusha Bangs saw most of this in detail upon subsequent visits. Just now he looked first for his hat. He saw it. Below, upon the sand of the beach, a round object bounced and rolled. As he gazed a gust whirled along the shore and pitched the brown object into the sparkling waters of the little harbor. It splashed, floated and then sailed jauntily out upon the tide.
"I'm going to school to-morrow, and it's a shame," said Laura in the low, passionate tone that never failed to exasperate Mother, so different was it from her own hearty fashion of venting displeasure. Pin began to sniff, in sheer nervous anxiety. "Very well then, I won't do another stitch to it!" and Mother, now angry in earnest, got up and bounced out of the room.
"Cross the ford, Sir," shouted the Ranger bending forward, "it's shorter than the bridge;" and her hair tossed in his face as the buckboard splashed into the River and bounced up the far side with hind wheels swaying. "Are y' all right, there?" called the old driver over his shoulder. "Stay with it," yelled Wayland, "straight ahead where the road cuts the Rim Rocks."
Mollie turned round from the table, where she sat taking her evening meal. "I don't want you or your visitors, Mrs. Sharpe, if that be your name," said the irascible patient. "You're all a set of old tabby cats together, and if you don't clear out, I'll fling something at your head!" She bounced from her chair as she spoke and brandished the tea-pot.
But don't yo' let dat dog bite yo'." "We won't," said Freddie. "He wouldn't bite anyhow," declared Flossie. Sam opened the box stall for them, and out bounced the big white dog, barking in delight, and almost knocking down the twins, so glad was he to see them. "What shall we call him?" asked Freddie. "Maybe we'd better name him Snoop, like our cat. I guess Snoop is gone forever."
How exquisite the sunshine was!... It fell upon her dark cheek this time with a sharp sting and bounced off on to her hand a round black stone dropped from nowhere but with strangely accurate aim. She sprang up abruptly. This was getting beyond a joke. Columbus was still rooting beneath the distant bush. Most certainly he was not the offender.
Red specks dotted the blackness before my eyes for a few moments as I bounced on the hard stones. I jumped up with a jerk and spun round to find, blocking my path, a menacing figure regarding me over the barrel of a Browning pistol. In the other hand he held an electric torch. "'Don't move, he said in good English. "His tone was quiet and crisp, an' his face showed me that 'e was out for blood.
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