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"Your only companion, Don?" she asked. "My best chum. He's so nearly human he understands at this moment that you don't think him handsome. Never mind! We're used to it, aren't we, Bim? Come over and take this chair, Sue. Are you cold? Would you like something hot? Tea or coffee?" She sat in the chair he drew to the fire for her.

Whew! but I'm as mad as a hatter because I've lost my fine chance, when I was going so strong, with plenty of reserve force held back." Hugh realized that duty called upon him to do as his chum demanded. It would be a shame if Nick Lang actually profited through such a rank act of treachery toward his fellows of Scranton High.

Whatever troubles might await her downstairs, it was a comfort to know that she had three allies ready to flock to her support. She had not known any of them well in the past, but as they seemed prepared to offer their friendship, she also was ready to act the part of chum.

"I'll keep on with Amy, and you and Mollie can go back to the boys." "I'll go tell papa, and have him stop Jake and Sam," said Alice, moving off with her chum. Grace strode ahead so rapidly through the snow that Mollie was forced to ask her to moderate her pace. "This isn't a race!" was the objection. "But I want to stop them fighting!" insisted Grace.

"If any one comes in here to steal Tommy's necktie," he added with a wink at his chum, "we want to see what he looks like." "Why didn't you stay here and watch, then?" demanded Tommy. "Why did you go off and leave the camp all alone? I heard people moving around, and I thought it was you." Will and George sat down on the edge of their cots and laughed. "Yes, you thought it was me!"

Compton sat up, rubbed his eyes, and drew his rug over his shoulders. "What's the countersign, comrade?" he asked, with a yawn. "Countersign?" "Yes; when the watch is relieved he has to say something or other, as a guide to the new man." "Oh, I see. Well, let me introduce you to the companion of your watch. See those green points out there?" "Yes like dull glass." "That's your new chum.

Damon waited for the directors to meet. Mr. Foger could be heard entering a little later. "What's this I hear, Pendergast?" he cried, rubbing his hands. "The bank robbers captured, eh? Well, that's good news. Of course we'll pay the reward. I always knew my boy was a smart lad. Five thousand dollars will be a tidy sum for him. Of course his chum, Sam Snedecker is entitled to some, but not much.

We'll take a run down in the airship, and see how it looks. I must take those drawings, too, that show the new plan of shrinking on the jackets. I guess I'll keep them in my room, so I won't forget them." Tom and Ned occupied adjoining and connecting apartments, for, of late, Ned had taken up his residence with his chum.

In the morning he brought out a quantity of black paint with which a friend who had taken pity of the weather-beaten condition of his vessel had presented him, and ordered his boys to begin work. Then he went ashore, spending a most agreeable morning among his friends. just before dinner a chum asked him what his boys were doing.

My chum, however, threw a damper on this reflection by suggesting that, when the first gong sounded our reveille at six o'clock AM, we should have such sharp work before us to dress and get down to the refectory in the quarter of an hour allowed us for the operation, that unless I wished to lose my breakfast a dreadful contingency considering the then empty state of my body I should have precious little time for star- gazing!