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"Three cheers for the boys with the hand engine!" proposed Bert, for he wanted to encourage the little chaps. "They couldn't have put that fire out if it hadn't been for my force- pump!" murmured Cole, amid the cheers that followed. "Say, if you mention force-pump again to-day," threatened Tom Donnell, "we'll stand you up in front of it, and douse you good."
H. B. DonNELL," announced this vision, "and I have come in to see you about something Clarice Almira told me when she came home to dinner today. It annoyed me EXCESSIVELY." "I'm sorry," faltered Anne, vainly trying to recollect any incident of the morning connected with the Donnell children. "Clarice Almira told me that you pronounced our name DONnell.
As Alan drew out his Tally and prepared to click off the start of a new day, he felt a strong hand firmly grasp his shoulder. "Morning, son." Alan turned from the viewscreen. He saw the tall, gaunt figure of his father standing behind him. His father and the Valhalla's captain. "Good rising, Captain." Captain Donnell eyed him curiously. "You've been up a while, Alan. I can tell.
He had been struggling to break away from Tom Donnell and the stenographer, who were holding him, to prevent him from upsetting the ladder. At Bert's words the enraged man, with a violent effort, managed to wrench himself loose. He fled, for he knew the game was up. But it may be added here that he was subsequently captured, and sent to prison for a long term.
"The trouble with me is the trouble with me is " Quantrell lowered his head and met Alan's stare. "I'm afraid, Donnell. Stinking sweaty afraid. The city's too big." Red-faced, he turned and walked away, back up the street. Alan silently watched him go. "Imagine that. Afraid!" "It's a big place," Rat warned. "Don't you feel the same way? Just a little?"
The bucket brigade soon left, and, a little while later, the young firemen, pulling their engine, moved off down the hill, talking over the events of the night. They all agreed that they had been more successful than might have been expected of a new organization. "I think Muchmore might have at least thanked us," said Tom Donnell. "He didn't show up after his queer actions."
"Do you suppose he has gambling games in that house?" inquired Tom Donnell. "I shouldn't be surprised." "I wonder if Mr. Stockton knows it?" ventured Bert. "I heard my mother say Mr. Stockton was a very fine man, and I don't believe he would allow that if he knew it." "Nobody's liable to tell him," went on George. "He seems to have disappeared. That's another queer part of it.
His skill at the game continued to increase; it was, he saw, just like astrogation, and with growing confidence he learned to project his moves three and sometimes four numbers ahead. On a warm night in mid-July the proprietor of the games hall Alan frequented most regularly stopped him as he entered. "You're Donnell, aren't you?" "That's right. Anything wrong?"
His only rival in Meath in such meritorious works of destruction was Conor, son of Donnell, and O'Melaghlin of East-Meath, or Bregia, whose death is recorded at the year 1277, "as one of the three men in Ireland" whom the midland English most feared. From the ancient mensal the transition is easy to the north.
Clair and the boys call him Jake and all goes smoothly. He informs me that he means to be a carpenter, but Mrs. DonNELL says I am to make a college professor out of him."
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