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The boat acknowledged it at once, taking less water and rising more buoyantly. "That'll do!" Rasmunsen called sternly, as they applied themselves to the top layer of eggs. "The h-hell it will!" answered the shivering one, savagely. With the exception of their notes, films, and cameras, they had sacrificed their outfit.
Th-this yere is the h-h-hotel, ain 't it? W-well, I 've got t-to be back to th-the 'Little Yankee' afore d-d-daylight, or thar 'll be h-hell to pay, an' I sure m-mean to see her first, an' an' maybe h-him." She stood there in thoughtful perplexity, oblivious to all else in her strange surroundings, watching the dark shadow of his burly figure disappear through the dim light.
"What if I'd kept on being a fool and hadn't come back at all, Girlie?" he asked softly, after a while. The schoolma'am shuddered eloquently in his arms. "It was sure lonesome it was hell out there alone," he observed, reminiscently. "It was sure h-hell back here alone, too," murmured a smothered voice which did not sound much like the clear, self-assertive tones of Miss Satterly.
We were about to ask him some questions, when he exclaimed: "B-B-Ben and Edmund, and 'B-Bijah Thompson too, by gum! An-An-And ain't I glad to see you?" "Amos Locke! And we're glad to see you, too. Where have you been?" "B-Been? I've been in h-hell. Say, have you got anything to eat? I'm starved." We had a lot of rye and Injun bread, cheese, and boiled beef with us.
"Maybe it vas so he tink to get you once more, but he not looked dis vay yet. Bueno! I make him dance vis me. Dis man Stutter Brown, an' he go vis you to de hotel; ees eet not so, amigo?" "I-I have no t-t-time," he stuttered, totally confused. "Y-you see, I 'm in a h-hell of a h-h-hurry." "Pah; eet vill not take five minute, an' I be here ven you come back.
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