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He sat down on the couch in silence, rose and walked to the window. She watched him struggling with deep emotion. He turned suddenly. "Look here, Kiddo, I've got to leave on that trip to the mountains of North Carolina. I've got to get down there before Christmas. I must be back here by the first of the year. Gee I can't go without you! You don't want to stay here without me, do you?"
And he would probably draw the couch against it and sleep there. And then came the crushing conviction that such flight would be of no avail in a struggle with a man of Jim's character. His laughing words of triumph rang through her soul now in all their full, sinister meaning. "The world ain't big enough for you to get away from me, Kiddo!" It wasn't big enough.
My father's a preacher, you know." "Yes, I know that," he went on solemnly; "that's what gives me courage. I knew you'd understand everything. I'm counting on you, Kiddo if you fall down, we're gone. I'll run like a turkey." "It's easy," she laughed. "And this license business how do we go about that? What'll they do to us?" "Nothing, goose! We just march up to the clerk and demand the license.
He paused, lifted his head and smiled grimly: "That's some promise, believe me, Kiddo! `AND OBEY' you meant it all, didn't you?" She would have hedged lightly over that ugly old word which still survived in the ceremony Craddock had used, but for the sinister suggestion in his voice back of the playful banter. He had asked it half in jest, half in earnest.
"What did I say?" She turned away to hide a tear. He threw his arms around her neck and drew her lips down to his. "Ah, don't worry, Kiddo I'll do better next time. Honest to God, I will. That's enough for today. Just let's love now. T'ell with the rest." She smiled in answer. "You promise to try honestly?" He raised his hand in solemn vow. "S'help me!"
As an E string vibrates when another E is struck somewhere near to it, so my being vibrated with each tilt of her head, each movement of her lips. Yet however much I conjured the magnet of my will to make her look again, she successfully, if coquettishly, resisted. The Spanish waiter came up softly to refill my glass; an attention I permitted, murmuring happily: "Right, kiddo!
Gee, it's good to see you; you've caused us more worry " he put his arm over Pee-wee's shoulder and turned away with him, and the others, being good scouts, had sense enough not to follow. "Pee-wee," said Roy, "don't try to tell me that can wait. Listen, kiddo.
The blood from his wounds smeared her hands and clothing. "Hang tight, kiddo," he cried, and started at a brisk trot toward the forest. Theriere kept close behind the two, reserving his fire until it could be effectively delivered. With savage yells the samurai leaped after their escaping quarry. The natives all carried the long, sharp spears of the aboriginal head-hunters.
'You better be careful . . . I got a weak heart. "'I win twelve hundred to the race, he says. ''N' we splits it two ways. "'Nothin' doin', I says, 'n' tries to hand him back the wad. "'Go awn! he says, 'I'll give you a soak in the ear. I bet that money fur you, kiddo. "I looks at the roll 'n' gets wobbly in the knees. I never see so much kale before not at one time.
"You'll give me a chance to get back at 'em if any of your friends knock me, won't you?" "Why should they dislike you?" He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, I ain't exactly one o' the high-flyers now am I?" "I'm glad you're not." "Sure enough?" "Yes." "Then it's me for you, Kiddo, for this world and the next."
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