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A boy of sixteen squatted by the fire. This man looked up and nodded, as Welton and his companion approached. "Where's the drive, doctor?" asked the lumberman. "This is the jam camp," replied the cook. "The jam's upstream a mile or so. Rear's back by Thompson's somewheres." "Is there a jam in the river?" asked Bob with interest. "I'd like to see it."
What sort of a jam's little Dalla got herself into, now?" "Well, frankly, we don't know. I hope she's still alive, but I'm not unduly optimistic. It seems that about a year ago, Dr. Hadron transposed to the Second Level, to study alleged proof of reincarnation which the Akor-Neb people were reported to possess.
Something of all this was in Bellew's mind as he sat with Small Porges beside him, watching Miss Anthea dispense tea, brewed as it should be, in an earthen tea-pot. "Milk and sugar, Mr. Bellew?" "Thank you!" "This is blackberry, an' this is raspberry an' red currant but the blackberry jam's the best, Uncle Porges!" "Thank you, nephew."
Most of them had followed rough and dangerous occupations in the bush; but they were not professional river-Jacks trained to high proficiency in log-driving, and one of them, turning, shouted to the watchers on the bank. "This jam's not solid!" he explained above the roar of the water. "She's working open and shutting; and you can't tell where the breaks are." Vane swung round toward Carroll.
She was not to be trapped by pathos a second time. Eluding her cousin's caress, she led the way downstairs. "Try the jam," Freddy was saying. "The jam's jolly good." George, looking big and dishevelled, was pacing up and down the dining-room. As she entered he stopped, and said: "No nothing to eat." "You go down to the others," said Lucy; "Charlotte and I will give Mr. Emerson all he wants.
So, choking and blinded with perspiration, Geoffrey smote on mechanically, until the man from Mattawa said, "She's about busted." Just then there was a clamor from the watchers on the piers. Men shouted, "Come back." "Whole jam's starting!" "King log's yielding now!" "Jump for your lives before the wreckage breaks away with you!"
"Let me alone, mamma. He'll never be anything but Regy Elster. I shall be Lord Hartledon, and jam's proper for me, and it's fair I should put upon him." The nurse flounced off with Reginald, and Lady Hartledon turned to her husband. "Is this to be suffered? Will you allow it to pass without correction?" "He means nothing," said Val. "Do you, Edward, my boy?" "Yes, I do; I mean what I say.
"Yes, and that jam's going out before many minutes," supplemented the tugboat captain grimly. Both these statements were only too true. Although not fifteen minutes before, the jam had lain locked in perfect safety, now the slight rise of the waters had lifted and loosened the mass until it rose fairly on the quiver. "Work fast!" Orde called to the men on the pile-driver.
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