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Galen Albret snarled like a wild beast, throwing aside the girl, as he did the chair in which he had been sitting. Ned Trent caught her, reeling, in his arms. For as is often the case with passionate but strong temperaments, though the Factor had attained a certain calm of control, the turmoil of his deeper anger had not been in the least stilled.
'Boil him, boil him, yelled the savages, now wrought to the point of frenzy." "That seems fairly exciting, isn't it?" I said. "Oh, he won't get boiled," said the little boy. "He's the hero." So I knew that the child has already taken his first steps in the disillusionment of fiction. Of course he was quite right as to Ned.
"But what I wanted to know is, did you see anyone near the red shed at the time?" "No, Massa Tom, I done didn't." "I wonder if Mr. Damon did? I must ask him," went on the young inventor. "Come, on, Ned, we'll go up to the house. Everything is all right here, I think. Whew! But that was some excitement. And I didn't show you my aerial warship after all!
"What makes you ask me that question?" returned the other, sharply. "Because," answered Ned, fixing his eyes upon him, "because the person who stole my apricots left part of a red handkerchief hanging on our hedge." "Do you mean to say, then, that I stole them?" exclaimed his companion, in an angry tone. "I'll teach you to tell this of me."
"I mean simply this," Ned replied. "That I am the bearer of an order of the Council for your arrest, and that of your wife, your son Ernest, and your daughter Mary, upon the charge of having been present and taken part in a meeting of the people of this town at which words of treasonable character were uttered.
"How can he care for these dirty, dull-witted fellows that can't spell their own names, when he is so smart and such a long, long way above them?" But Noll, he remembered, had answered this question on the previous evening; yet Ned could hardly comprehend such motives, and so sat puzzling his head over it till his friend came back with a pleased and happy face, to say, "I'm ready now.
Perhaps their spirits were elevated by the proud consciousness of being for once in the way of earning an honest penny! Ain't that economy gone mad? Hallo, young 'ooman, what's the use o' trying to do it with a teaspoon, when there's Ned and me ready to do it with our shovels for next to nothin'?"
"Of late I have been haunted with the fear that she is in danger of violence from the king. He is capable of committing any crime has committed many, as we all know! Why do you ask about Frances, Baron Ned?" "Because she is not at Whitehall nor at her father's house, where the duchess said she was going. She never goes any place else, and it only now occurs to me to be alarmed."
Then, by means of the wireless impulse I shut off the motors, which can be stopped or started by hand or by electricity. I shut 'em off." "And only just in time!" cried Ned. "Whew, Tom Swift, but that was a close call!" "I realize that myself!" said the young inventor. "This is a new idea and has to be worked out further for our newer tanks." "Gee!" ejaculated Ned.
"Ned," said Battersleigh, looking at him with an injured air, "do you suppose I've campaigned all me life and not learned the simplest form of cookin'? Pie? Why, man, I'll lay you a half section of land to a saddle blanket I'll make ye the best pie that ever ye set eye upon in all your life. Pie, indeed, is it?" "Well," said Franklin, "you take some risks, but we'll chance it. Go ahead.
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