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Both Injun Joe and the treasure sunk into secondary importance for a moment, and Becky took the chief place in the boy's interest. He saw her and they had an exhausting good time playing "hi-spy" and "gully-keeper" with a crowd of their school-mates.
"Yes, ma'am. Got away slick and clean." "Where?" barked Dunke. "Where what, my friend?" "Where did you take him?" Larry laughed in slow deep enjoyment. "I hate to disappoint you, but if I told that would be telling. No, I reckon I won't table my cards yet a while. If you're playing in this game of Hi-Spy go to it and hunt." "Perhaps you don't know that I am T. J. Dunke." "You don't say!
They run races and play 'stump-the-leader' and 'hi-spy' and 'ring-around-the-rosy. Why, Miss Janet, if you were out here a little later on, you would think it was recess all the time." "I wish I might be," said Janet. "A lamb likes to be on the go," he continued. "Sheep really ain't lively enough for a lamb, so he has to go off and have his own fun.
"Skunked," remarked Morris cheerfully. Gerald said nothing, did not even look; but Bobby liked Morris's comment better than Gerald's assumed indifference. "Let's have another game partners," suggested Gerald to Celia. But Bobby, to his own great surprise, found courage to speak up. "Let's not play croquet any more," said he. "Let's have a game of Hi-Spy."
The comparison showed all his freckles and the unformed homeliness of his rather dumpy, sturdy figure; it showed also the honest dull red of his cheeks and the clear unfaltering gray of his eyes. Celia, between them, looked down, tapping her croquet ball with the tip of her shoe. "I don't think it's very hot," she said at last, looking up. "Let's play Hi-Spy."
Both Injun Joe and the treasure sunk into secondary importance for a moment, and Becky took the chief place in the boy's interest. He saw her and they had an exhausting good time playing "hi-spy" and "gully-keeper" with a crowd of their school-mates.
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