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As he watched they came backwards into the room, the upper part of a body materialized from the chimney, and turning round revealed the soot-stained face of Mr. Alfred Chase. Another wild shriek from Mrs. Teak greeted its appearance. "Hul-lo!" exclaimed Mr. Teak, groping for the right thing to say. "Hul-lo! What what are you doing, Alf?" Mr. Chase blew the soot from his lips.
He let fall a word of instruction on the correct way of laying out dress-clothes and was beginning to get ready in earnest, when the telephone-bell rang simultaneously in bedroom, bathroom, dining-room and smoking-room. As he finished his sherry, he tried to remember where he had left the instrument. "Hul-lo," he cried, exploring to see whether the bathroom chair was dry. "That you, Ricky?
It included a number of press cuttings of interviews and also several letters in German, then some in the same German handwriting, but in English. "Hul-LO!" said Bert.
Ann Veronica decided to be more explicit. "I've been," she said, "forbidden to come." "Hul-LO!" said Hetty, turning her head on the pillow; and Teddy remarked with profound emotion, "My God!" "Yes," said Ann Veronica, "and that complicates the situation." "Auntie?" asked Constance, who was conversant with Ann Veronica's affairs. "No! My father. It's it's a serious prohibition."
Carter toward the open door of the car. "Hul-lo" exclaimed Mr. Carter, when he saw the farmer and realized how he had "dropped in." "That milk for sale?" "Why, mister," drawled Snubbins, "I'm under contrac' ter Peleg Morton ter deliver two cans of milk to him ev'ry day. I wasn't goin' to have him claim I hadn't tried ter fulfil my part of the contrac', so I started 'cross-lots with the cans."
"Hul-lo!" he muttered, evidently vastly surprised to see the girls in the train bound for Cincinnati. "How do you do?" said Nancy, softly. "Yes! you're the girl. I thought I was not mistaken," spoke the Senator, and although he frowned he seemed to wish to speak pleasantly. "You go to the same school as my daughter?" "Yes, sir." "Pinewood Hall?" "Yes, sir," repeated Nancy. "What is your name?"
"Huh!" grunted Jennie. "Only Cora? Well! she can stand it, I guess." "Well, I don't know but she's right," wheezed Belle, who was also of the party. "They ought not to let such girls into a school like Pinewood Hall." "Hul-lo!" exclaimed Jennie, suddenly interested. "Who's been treading on your tootsies, Belle?" "Why, it's that Nelson girl," snapped Judy. "And what's Nancy been doing?"
Hammond took off his hat; he raked the decks they were crammed with passengers; he waved his hat and bawled a loud, strange "Hul-lo!" across the water; and then turned round and burst out laughing and said something nothing to old Captain Johnson. "Seen her?" asked the harbour-master. "No, not yet. Steady wait a bit!"
I dare say I looked a ferocious savage enough dirty, unkempt, to an indescribable degree; but it did not occur to me at the time. He stopped at a distance of twenty yards. "Hul-lo, my man!" he said doubtfully. "Hullo yourself!" said I. He advanced, reassured by that. "What on earth is that thing?" he asked. "Can you tell me where I am?" I asked.
The girl had sunk into a sort of apathy in which nothing' seemed to matter much. Only she fairly ached with thirst. But Roy would awake presently and want water. The little they had must be saved for him. And so the hours wore on and the sun marched blazingly across the sky. It was mid-afternoon, and Roy had not awakened, when Peggy was startled from her gloomy thoughts by a loud hail. "Hul-lo!"
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