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Baumberger climbed heavily out of the rig, and went lurching drunkenly up the path to the house where the cool shade of the grove was like paradise set close against the boundary of the purgatory of blazing sunshine and scorching sand. He had not gone ten steps from the stable when he met Good Indian face to face. "Hullo," he growled, stopping short and eying him malevolently with lowered head.
As if the guardian angel of Dick's conscience was at work that very minute to torment him, there came the sound of an approaching horse, and Samson turned the corner into view. "Oh, hullo, Blaine! How's the gold developing?" "So-so. Have they found the murderer of Mukhum Dass yet?" Samson dropped his reins to light a cigar, and took his time about it. "Not exactly." "Hum!
At length the crackling stopped and the spark went out with a sputter. The man stopped writing and wheeled about in his seat. He saw them looking in at the doorway. "Hullo!" he exclaimed. "If here aren't two of the little Bunkers. Do you want to send a message by wireless?" "Thank you," said Rose promptly.
The officer who came back from home stepped into his old place, and after the first greeting of, "Hullo, old man! Had a good time?" found his old job waiting for him. So there was a new brigadier-general? Quick promotion, by Jove! Four men had got knocked out that morning at D4, and it was rotten bad luck that the sergeant-major should have been among them. A real good fellow.
His face was pale, and his manner bewildered. 'Hullo? what's the matter? said Jim. 'Where's my Margery? 'You've carried this footy game too far, my man! exclaimed Vine, with the air of a friend who has 'always told you so. 'You ought to have dropped it several days ago, when she would have come to 'ee like a cooing dove. Now this is the end o't! 'Hey! what, my Margery?
For it was the most human of all the apes, being a chimpanzee about as big as a sturdy two-year-old boy. All at once the stroke oarsman ceased rowing, and began to wipe the perspiration from his open, good-humoured face. "Hullo!" shouted one of the middies, "what's that mean? Why are you not pulling?" "Beg pardon, sir; won't be none of me left to," said the man, "I'm trickling all away.
"There must be two or three hundred of 'em," Peter said. "We've fooled 'em nicely, so far." By the crashing of the bushes the fugitives could hear strong parties making their way along the shore in either direction. An hour passed, during which the fugitives floated nearly opposite the clearing. "Hullo!" Peter exclaimed presently. "There's a canoe coming along the lake.
I want to gallop, and get it done. Hullo! old Dark Night; I didn't know you were there." This was to Joeboy, who was walking with one hand on the cantle of my saddle. "Um!" said Joeboy; "come along take care of Boss Val." "Good boy!" said Denham banteringly. "Take care of me too." "Um! Yes!
He succeeded in gaining the platform of the third car ahead. Though his knees shook under him, the turnback swung up on to the steps. In another moment, after noting that the cadets were not looking particularly towards the door, Haynes turned the knob, stepping inside and dropping, with feigned carelessness, into an empty seat. "Hullo, Haynesy," was Lewis's easy greeting. Been up ahead?
"To die in your teens in this country! just as the curtain is up and the play begins hard! Hullo, Anderson!" The great man extended a cordial hand, chaffed Philip a little, gave Lady Merton some hurried but very precise directions as to what she was to see and whom at Vancouver and Pretoria. "You must see So-and-so and So-and-so great friends of mine. D 'll tell you all about the lumbering.