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Kells's animation and eagerness suddenly froze. "VIGILANTES!" he ground out. "No rumor, Kells, this time. I've sure some news.... Come close, all you fellows. You, Gulden, come an' listen. Here's where we git together closer'n ever." Gulden surged forward with his group. Handy Oliver was surrounded by pale, tight faces, dark-browed and hardeyed.
He had acquired, under that roof, a terrible habit of telling stories. He had never incurred that vice with his mother, because then and there he had nothing to fear; now, he had everything to fear; the grim aunt even the quiet, kind, cold, austere uncle the apprentices the strange servants and, oh! more than all, those hardeyed, loud-laughing tormentors, the boys of his own age!
He had acquired, under that roof, a terrible habit of telling stories. He had never incurred that vice with his mother, because then and there he had nothing to fear; now, he had everything to fear; the grim aunt even the quiet, kind, cold, austere uncle the apprentices the strange servants and, oh! more than all, those hardeyed, loud-laughing tormentors, the boys of his own age!
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