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Brown thought it best to go, it did not really matter. "Ask the girls to come home as soon as they can," she added. "Phil is so clever in cases of illness." "I'll borrow the 'Water Witch. I think I can get up to the Belleview quicker if I go by water than if I wait for the street car to take me there. The girls will bring the boat home with them." Mr.
Whatever they fight about, 'tis nothing to you, compared with your duty to me." "But you don't understand," was all he could reply. "If I could explain " "Oh, Phil, dear," she said, adopting again a tender, supplicating tone. "You'll not rob me of what I've so joyously looked forward to, will you? Think, how I've set my heart on it! Why, we've looked forward to it together, haven't we?
But he did not move, and my fears were not for him. "Carette!" I cried. "Carette!" And my love rose suddenly with a cry and fell sobbing into my arms. "Oh, Phil! Phil! What is it? I thought you were dead." "Dieu merci, it is he who is dead, I think. We will see," and I managed a light with my flint and steel and knelt down by the fallen man. "Who is it?" asked Carette, breathless still.
The Queen of the Fairies might have envied him that meal, so exquisite were the flower-cups in which he found it. "Of course, if you prefer honey to fresh bark," she said disappointedly. To please her Phil nibbled one end of the bough, and found it very bitter. He was thankful when her thoughts were distracted to her young ones, whose coats had to be nicely smoothed before they went to bed.
"'Don't go, sir, said he; 'I have something to propose to you by and by. I accordingly took my seat. "When the gentleman entered, he looked about, and selecting Phil, bowed to him, and then to us. "'Ah, Mr. Hartley! how do you do? said Val, shaking hands with him; 'and how is your cousin, whom we hope to have the pleasure of beating soon? ha, ha, ha. Take a seat.
But Phil, with the delicate perception of a finer nature, felt that the truest kindness he could show his friend was to distract his thoughts from himself, to spare him any comments, and lessen the embarrassment which would surely follow such unwonted confidence. "Now I'll relieve Flint, and he will give you a laugh. Come on, Hiram, and tell us about your Beulah."
And to the surprise of everyone, he implicated Manuel, the assistant to the Spanish clown. Bad Eye admitted having thrown Phil Forrest overboard, as well. He denied having stolen Tucker's egg, placing the full responsibility for this on the shoulders of Manuel. What was done with the egg was never known, though Manuel was believed to have thrown it overboard.
So when Katherine found him tying up an ounce of caustic soda, in place of the tartaric acid which had been ordered, it seemed high time to interfere, and she had sent him off with Phil to do her work, while she remained at home sorting out the contents of the shelves. Mrs.
"It is dark," said Phil, as Patty expressed her thoughts; "to be sure, a place like this is illuminated, but the streets are not half lighted, and I think it's a shame." "London streets at night aren't much better as to light," said Bert, "but I say, you fellows, you just ought to see the streets in New York at night. Whew! they're so bright they just dazzle you, don't they, Patty?"
Poor Dave was found not far off, tied to a tree. His story was somewhat lacking in detail. He had sat dozing over a book on aeronautics, when suddenly an earthquake came up and hit him over the head. That was all he knew till he woke up tied securely to a tree. "That settles it," declared Phil. "We ought to have done it in the first place, but the boss didn't think it was worth while."
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