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'When Ritter Red has taken you home again, and given out that it was he who rescued you, he will, as you know, have you to wife, and half the kingdom.
Both Ritter and Baxter did their best to gain the votes dropped by Henry Lee and Paul Singleton. "I will read the result," said Captain Putnam, a few minutes later. And amid a breathless silence, he read the following: "Whole number of votes cast, 83. Necessary to a choice, 42. Robert Grenwood has 5. Reffton Ritter has 10. Daniel Baxter has 12. Bart Conners has 56."
Then Dorris Ritter, the poor innocent young girl who had been flogged through the streets of Berlin, her only fault being that she was the first love of the crown prince. Would the king, now that he was free to act, remember poor Dorris and what she had suffered for him; her sorrow, her shame, and her despair?
By way of gaining time for further developments I retired to Villeneuve, at the other end of the Lake of Geneva, where I put up at the Hotel Byron, which was quite empty at the time. Here I learned that Karl Ritter had arrived in Zurich, as he said he would, with the intention of paying me a visit.
They looked very pretty doing it. Bessy Ritter had asked Ben to stand in first and he had obligingly consented. Of course he chose her. Then the children sang again: "Now you're married you must obey, You must be true to all you say, You must be kind, you must be good, And keep your wife in kindling-wood.
"I see," he observed, "he uses the same name, Hunter; 27 Little Carton Street, Westminster, is the address, and there I shall go at once with the note. If the man comes here, I think you had better lock him in with Ritter, and send for a policeman it may at least frighten him.
Oh, Herr Ritter! it was my sister, my sister Carlotta! I was certain of it! I was certain of it! Nevertheless; after she had gone, I asked the shop-woman some questions about the lady. She did not tell me much, for I fancy she thought me inquisitive; but she told me, at least, all I had need to know. Her customer, she said, was the wife of a very rich inn-keeper, and her name was Carlotta Nero.
When Willy Snyders came in, as he usually did on his way from his work to luncheon for the purpose of saying "how-do-you-do" to Bonifacius Ritter and art, it seemed to Frederick that he had been awakened from a dream and called back to a strange life. "I am sorry to have to leave work and go to lunch. Lunch is really a very disturbing thing," he confessed.
And then Ritter hurried into the mess-room as fast as he could. Pepper, Jack and Andy looked at each other. "He is guilty, I know it!" said Pepper firmly. "I believe you," answered the young major; and Andy nodded his head to show that he agreed with his chums. "Now then, fellows, for the greatest snowball battle of the age!" "Here is where Company A smothers Company B!" "Rats!
"You you jumped in and saved me from drowning, didn't you?" "Yes. But anybody would do that, Gus, for a schoolmate." "No, they wouldn't; Reff Ritter wouldn't. He would have left me to drown!" And Coulter shuddered. "You're a real hero, Jack Ruddy! And I'm a a skunk; yes, a mean, low-down skunk and I always have been!" And now Gus Coulter buried his face in his hands.
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