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"Dad looked exactly as if he'd opened the door to a book agent when I came. He he tolerates my presence, Ket! And Frank Johnson's pipe smells to high heaven, and I hate him in the house and 'the boys' hmhm! The boys Ket, it would be terribly funny, if I didn't have to stay here."
Lorraine hugged the cat so violently that she choked off a purr in the middle. "'Don't leave the ranch to-day! Ket, I believe it's going to be dangerous or something, after all." She dressed quickly and went outside into the sunlight, the cat at her heels, the thrill of that one command filling the gray monotone of the hills with wonderful possibilities of adventure.
There was a large oak-tree in that place, on a spot called Moushold Hill, which Ket named the Tree of Reformation; and under its green boughs, he and his men sat, in the midsummer weather, holding courts of justice, and debating affairs of state.
In this way Wermund satisfied the dull amazement of Ket, and declared that he had set forth and expounded the true reasons of the king's safe escape.
"Dad looked exactly as if he'd opened the door to a book agent when I came. He he tolerates my presence, Ket! And Frank Johnson's pipe smells to high heaven, and I hate him in the house and 'the boys' hmhm! The boys Ket, it would be terribly funny, if I didn't have to stay here."
"Ket I'm afraid of that man at Whisper!" she breathed miserably against its fur. Brit was smoking his pipe after supper and staring at nothing, though his face was turned toward the closed door. Lorraine had washed the dishes and was tidying the room and looking at her father now and then in a troubled, questioning way of which Brit was quite oblivious.
He disappeared finally around a small spur of the hill, and Lorraine found her knees trembling under her. "Ket, you're an awful fool," she exclaimed fiercely. "Why did you let me give myself away to that man? I I believe he was the man. And if I really did see him, it wasn't my imagination at all. He saw me there, perhaps. Ket, I'm scared! I'm not going to stay on this ranch all alone.
Pierrotin took Rougeot by the bridle and gave that guttural cry, "Ket, ket!" to tell the two animals to collect their energy; on which, though evidently stiff, they pulled the coach to the door of the Lion d'Argent. After which manoeuvre, which was purely preparatory, Pierrotin gazed up the rue d'Enghien and then disappeared, leaving the coach in charge of the porter.
I ket ches Im out ar ter 'Hold your hand, cries Jasper, 'and don't throw while I stand so near him, or I'll kill you! Come, Durdles; let me walk home with you to-night. Shall I carry your bundle? 'Not on any account, replies Durdles, adjusting it. 'Durdles was making his reflections here when you come up, sir, surrounded by his works, like a poplar Author.
'Baby-Devil that you are, what has the man done to you? 'He won't go home. 'What is that to you? 'He gives me a 'apenny to pelt him home if I ketches him out too late, says the boy. And then chants, like a little savage, half stumbling and half dancing among the rags and laces of his dilapidated boots: 'Widdy widdy wen! I ket ches Im out ar ter ten, Widdy widdy wy!
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