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You mucker!" hissed Bayliss, now speaking directly to the young left end. This was so palpable that Dick could not well ignore it. Dropping the key back into his pocket, he turned to stare at the two "sorehead" chums. "Eh?" he asked, with a quiet laugh. "Yes; I meant you!" hissed Bayliss. "Oh, well," grinned Dick, "your opinions have never counted for much in the community, have they?"

Outside an oven had been constructed of rocks, and a fire put under it. On a flat stone the coffee pot stood ready. The table had been set, the potatoes pared and sliced ready for frying, in fact everything was ready for the noon meal with the exception of the cooking. The boys looked at each other then burst out laughing. "We've had company," grinned George.

Sighing for the five hundred, he again took up his book and was lost in its pages when he heard a knock, rather low and timid. Wearily laying aside his reading, he strode to the door, expecting to hear a lengthy complaint from one of his townsmen. As he threw the door wide open the light streamed out and lighted up a revolver and behind it the beaming face of a cowboy, who grinned.

Gorges and Warwick must have "grinned horribly behind their hands" upon receipt of the honest thanks of these honest planters and the pious benedictions of their scribe, knowing themselves guilty of detestable conspiracy and fraud, which had frustrated an honest purpose, filched the results of others' labors, and had "done to death" good men and women not a few.

He has formed I can hardly write it a passion, an infatuation," the Major grinned "for an actress who has been performing here. She is at least twelve years older than Arthur who will not be eighteen till next February and the wretched boy insists upon marrying her." "Hay! What's making Pendennis swear now?" Mr.

'Bother! said Ruby, turning round sharp, and going back to the other kitchen. John Crumb turned round also, and grinned at his friend, and then grinned at the old man. 'You've got it all afore you, said the farmer, leaving the lover to draw what lesson he might from this oracular proposition. 'And I don't care how soon I ha'e it in hond; that I don't, said John.

Jean's fingers were close to her gun, though she was not conscious of it, or of the strained, tense muscles that waited the next move. Art, contrary to her expectations, did the most natural thing in the world. He grinned and came hurrying toward her with the long, eager steps of one who goes to greet a friend after an absence that makes of that meeting an event. Jean watched him cross the street.

"I see your brother is free now. He wants to brief me on my duties here. We were discussing it before we entered." Eloise pouted. "You can always do that." "You said yourself that Alexander never stays here very long. I would be a poor employee if I delayed him." He grinned knowingly at her and she smiled back with complete understanding. "Very well, then. Get your business done.

"Let your other parent be a warning to you as to the horrors of an uncontrolled temper," said Henry Houghton; "I have known your mother, in one of her outbursts of fury, so far forget herself as to say, 'Oh, my!" Edith grinned, but insisted, "Eleanor is dull as all get out!" "Consider the stars," Mrs. Houghton encouraged her. But Mr.

Jackum nodded and grinned. "Get big lot. You come some day," he cried. "Some day, Jackum, if my father will fit out a vessel." "Iss," said Jackum. "No Big Dan. Killa feller. Mumkull eberybody. You come sit along Jackum. Jackum show Car-ee how fro boomerang next time. Ha, ha!"