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"Why, Susan and Bessie were full of the contrast with your little girl." "Health," began Phyllis. "An Indian child too!" he went on. "Just showing what a little good sense in the training can do! No, indeed! Since I am to be her guardian, I have no notion of swerving from my duty, and letting poor Hal's child be bred up to Sisterhoods and all that flummery."
There could be no doubt that this was a Moro fort, erected for a particular purpose, and Hal's active mind immediately fathomed that purpose. "The datto's own headquarters!" he whispered in his chum's ear. "Oh, Noll, I hope that I am right!" Terry nodded. He was as excited as was his comrade. The wall, as well as the Army boys could judge, was more than two hundred feet long.
He learned that he was innocent, even indirectly, of the stranger's death. Joy thrilled through every vein, he could have faced any peril, however great. Regardless of the angry blaze, he made his way through fire and smoke to the stranger's side. The fireman paused in his labor a moment, grasped Hal's hand, and with a smile, in which mingled a dash of triumph, said: "You see I am safe."
Both lads threw themselves to the ground, and thus avoided the volley of shots that were fired at them. As Chester dropped, he heard a startled exclamation from his chum, and, glancing quickly about, he could see no sign of him. The lad was non-plussed, but, before he could so much as move, he heard Hal's voice, apparently below him: "Quick, Chester! Down here, but be careful how you come."
"But I haven't, Papa," said Sam, looking up, quite surprised. "You know I am a year older, and couldn't help caring more; and Miss Fosbrook is so nice, one couldn't bother her; but you see the Grevilles WOULD put it into Hal's head that it was stupid and like a girl to mind her.
There is no use going to Brussels." Chester clapped his hands. "I have it!" he exclaimed. Hal looked at him in surprise. "What?" he demanded. "Why, what we are going to do." "Well, what is it?" "Fight!" "Fight? What do you mean?" "Join the army!" Captain Derevaux leaped to his feet. "I will not hear of it!" he exclaimed. But the idea caught Hal's fancy. "Good boy, Chester!" he exclaimed.
"It's a man plowing," said Hal's Uncle. "But won't he spoil the garden?" Mab wanted to know. "He's just starting to make it," Uncle Pennywait answered. "Didn't Daddy Blake tell you that the ground must be plowed or chopped up, and then finely pulverized or smoothed, so the seeds would grow better?" "Oh, yet, so he did," Hal said.
They returned in the same procession, only now the man had a sack of something on his shoulder, while the little chap had a smaller load poised in imitation. So Hal grinned again, and when they were opposite him, he said, "Hello." "Hello," said Jerry, and stopped. Then, seeing Hal's grin, he grinned back; and Hal looked at the little chap and grinned, and the little chap grinned back.
Lady Bennington was famous as one of the few women who always say and do the right thing at the right moment. The note ran: "Dear Shagganappi, "Do come with my boy at Eastertide; we want you come. "Your friend, Hal's mother, "CONSTANCE BENNINGTON."
At sight of the prisoner in the center, one of them cried: "Ho, Nicolas! where are you going?" Quickly Hal stepped behind the prisoner and out of sight of the strangers, his revolver was pressed into Nicolas' back. "No foolishness," he said in a low voice. "Rather risky for you in these parts, isn't it, Nicolas?" said another of the strangers. Nicolas heeded Hal's advice.
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