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"What?" asked the professor, a little impatiently. "You'd laugh at me," the boy answered. "You saw " "I saw a big green head with large eyes and spines on its back put its head out of the water," Colin said doggedly, "and it had a bright red mane. I couldn't think of anything but but," he hesitated and then gulped out, "a sea-serpent."
There was no occasion for worry. Would Mr. Rock care for a drink so early in the morning? The bank president gulped down the brandy, and under the stimulus of the fiery liquor his wavering courage rallied perceptibly. "Had a bad night," he explained. "Didn't sleep a wink. Neuralgia." The Slavonian nodded sympathetically and the two men lapsed into silence.
Steve Strong and Kit Barnard sat in the pilot and copilot's chairs on the control deck of the Polaris and watched the needle of the accelerometer climb as Astro poured on the power in answer to Walters' command. "If I know Astro," said Strong, "you'll probably get the fastest ride you've ever had short of hyperdrive, Kit." Kit Barnard gulped as he watched the needle.
"Gawd knows I did!" affirmed W. Keyse. "An' since she's bin' my wife " The prominent Adam's apple in his thin throat jerked. He gulped a sob down as he looked at her. And the red flew up in her pale cheeks, and in her eyes, as she returned the look of him, her master and her mate, there shone the answering light of love.
Just then there was a mad howl behind the house and a gray streak of light flashed over the bank and Jack, with a wisp of rope around his neck, sprang through the air from a rock ten feet high and landed lightly on the last log as the raft shot forward. Chad gulped once and his heart leaped with joy, for he had agreed to leave Jack with old Joel, and old Joel had tied the dog in the barn.
Johnny gulped and winked hard, and wished that Mary V was more like her mother, and hoped that Sudden was not looking at him. Sudden was folding the paper very carefully and slipping it into an envelope, on the face of which he wrote "John Ivan Jewel, $3000. secured note, due " whenever the date said.
She turned to Ross, a tear-stained face on which her gratitude at his offer struggled with her woes and the Horror of the Situation. "My ... my fa-ther...." she began brokenly, and then gulped, and stopped. It sounded very much like a greeting of the man before her, but it was only that her unruly voice refused entirely to respond to her efforts to use it.
"We used to play a lot by the brook, Carl, until I went away to college and forgot. I I wrote her the whole wretched mess," he choked. "She says come back." "Yes," said Carl sombrely, "there are fine, big splendid women like that. I'm glad you know one. God knows what the world of men would do without them. You'll go back to her?" Wherry gulped courageously.
"Say, are you plumb bugs? Why " Vic gulped and stuttered. "Say, where do you get that stuff? You better tie a can to it, sis; it don't get over with me. I'm for screen fame, and I'm going to get it too. Why, by the time I'm twenty, I'll betcha I can pull down a salary that'll make Charlie Chaplin look like an extra! Why, my grin "
She choked. The old man did not appear to notice it. He looked at her with sharp consideration. "Oh, you means selling!" he remarked. "Where is it, then?" "What?" "The show little dawg?" Cuckoo gulped out her address. All this time the old man had been summing her up, and drawing his own conclusions from her thin figure and haggard face. He scented a possible bargain.
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