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"It's something that I found in the road this morning," replied Rand, handing the coin over to Jack. "Pepper found one, too." "Found it in the road!" cried Jack, instantly on the alert. "That's serious. Tell me about it." "There isn't much to tell," replied Rand. "Monkey Rae tried to run us down this morning and we had a near-fight and after he had gone we found them." "Well?" questioned Jack.
"Thank you, Master Wheatman," said Charles, in his ordinary frank way, when I rose. "You're worth a hundred rats like young Maclachlan." I coloured, partly with the praise and partly because I was wondering how many Smite-and-spare-nots I was worth. I was then closely questioned about the lie of the land to the south of Stafford and Derby.
Now, if you and I were doing it, Hagan, we'd do it in a way that would leave us practically without risk, and I think we'd clean up a good thing out of it." "Why can't we do it?" exclaimed Hagan, as if struck by a sudden thought. "Why can't we?" questioned Jerome, in some surprise. "Why, that other gang is in it." "We'll block 'em, me boy!
"You don't want to be questioned?" "No," said the girl. "Where are you going now?" "To the hospital." "May I walk up there with you? I live in Clifton. I can go home that way." "I'd rather you didn't." "Then good-by till day after tomorrow at three." He put out his hand; he had to reach for hers and take it. "You're not not angry with me?" "No." His eyes lingered tenderly upon her.
"You see, Nan, I've got loads of things to do, an' I can't be wastin' time." "What things?" questioned Nan, curiously. "Oh I'll tell you about them after awhile," replied the boy. "The broom in your room?" "Yes, I'll bring it to you," and Nan hurried off.
Had any one questioned him though no one of his present world would have dreamed of so doing, he would doubtless have laughed at the suggestion of returning to the old ways. But whether such questions would or would not have set him, afterwards, to some furtive weighing of respective values, it is impossible to say.
He was well known to the deputy clerk, and so no one questioned his right to go to Drysdale's desk. On leaving the private office, he locked the door, and hurried back to Drysdale's house with the papers. He entered Drysdale's room in an excited manner, and said: "Why, Drysdale, you must have been bleeding at the office, for there is blood on your chairs, desk, and on these papers; look there!"
Fearing to be questioned he passed through the town without stopping, crossed the Scheldt and continued his way for another five miles, when he stopped at the village of Gontere. He entered a small inn. "I wish to stop here for the night," he said, "if you have room?" "Room enough and to spare," the host replied.
I have not questioned Maggie on this point, but I am convinced that she expected to find a sort of final summons, of death's visiting-card, for one or the other of us. The paper was there, a small folded scrap, partially concealed under a jar. "Them prints was there, too," Maggie said, non-committally.
"I left Uncle Henry's farm only about two hours ago; that's the reason," she said, rather perplexed. "But, tell me, my dear, did you ever see so wonderful a city as Foxville in Kansas?" he questioned. "No, your Majesty." "And haven't you traveled from Oz to Kansas in less than half a jiffy, by means of the Silver Shoes and the Magic Belt?" "Yes, your Majesty," she acknowledged.
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