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Hal's awfully generous, and Fred is, too; only Fred teases, and the boys call Hal 'Troubadour. "Well, there was a man lived by this boy's house, and he was a real bad man, and it came Good Friday, and this man didn't go to church or anything; but he bought a flag a great big, new one, and he put it right up on his flag-staff with his own hands. He just must have been glad that God was dead.
He wanted the entire care, and Hal told him to go right ahead the same as if he owned it all and see what he could do. This was quite a step, and, as it proved, a successful one. He was at home in his old room at night, but ate at Hal's table, and Mary said he was so good they could never keep house without him.
Hal's outfit was by no means as elaborate or as expensive as was Cub's, but it was sufficient to receive radiophone programs, under favorable conditions, from the strongest stations 300 or 400 miles distant, while the strong spark of his code transmitter had earned for him a wide acquaintance in amateur circles. Before they started, Cub had another dot-and-dash tete-a-tete with "Mr.
As they hammered on these barriers, perhaps they would hear the signals of living men on the other side; or they would break through in silence, and find men too far gone to make a sound, yet possibly with the spark of life still in them. One by one, Hal's friends went down "Big Jack" David, and Wresmak, the Bohemian, Klowoski, the Pole, and finally Jerry Minetti.
The ruse succeeded, for the man inside, taking the noise made by the chair for the sound of Hal's feet, stepped quickly forward and pointed a revolver in that direction. This meant that Hal stood directly behind the newcomer. Smiling to himself, Hal raised his revolver and said quietly: "Drop that gun or I'll bore a hole through you. No, don't bother to turn first."
"But how can you do it?" "I don't know; I only know I ought to be trying. I'll hang round the train, and maybe I can get one of the porters to talk." "Interview with the Coal King's porter!" chuckled Hal. "How it feels to make up a multi-millionaire's bed!" "How it feels to sell stuffed dates to a banker's daughter!" countered the other. But suddenly it was Hal's turn to become serious.
How Ned obeyed the Lieutenant's Orders. On the Rampage. Hal on Hand. The Spoils. Rejoicings over Juanita's Return. What Tom says. Ned wounded. A Mountain Carriage. Arrival at the Fort. The Little Gold Ring. Good-bye, Juanita. "Disrispict." A Fight. Once more on the Road. We cross the Rio Grande. Mesilla. Hal's Purchase. A False Alarm. A Ludicrous Scene. An Unexpected Arrival in Camp.
"You may sit there until I have completed this piece of work," said the chief, motioning the prisoners to chairs behind him. Hal and Uncle John sat down and the chief turned again to his desk and was soon busy writing. Hal's eyes roved about the room. An idea struck him like a flash. They sat between the chief of police and the door by which they had entered.
In a sense he was like Hal, and she knew that just as she attracted Hal's devotion in spite of all disparity of years and circumstances, so, if she chose, she could make this young giant more or less her slave. But was it worht it? What did she, on her high pedestal, want with his young admiration? What did she want with a companion so undeveloped that she herself must awaken his strongest forces?
One of them was at great pains to try and teach her, but with hideous shapes and suggestions trying to crowd her mind, the thought of Hal's freshness still acted as a sort of protection and kept her untainted. A little later, after she had commenced to earn a salary, she found that directly the family purse was empty, and creditors objectionably insistent, she herself had to come to the rescue.
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