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"This is Jack Ruddy's sloop; you have no right to touch her." "Aw, you shut up." "I'll not shut up, Reff Ritter. If you make another mark on this boat I'll have you locked up!" "Humph! you think you've got the best of me, don't you?" sneered the bully, but his manner showed that he was considerably disconcerted.
Then I went for him, and we had it hot and heavy, until we bumped into one of the wooden horses and I went down. He tried to hit me after I was down, but Coulter and Paxton hauled him back. Then Mr. Crabtree came in." "A most disgraceful proceeding!" cried Josiah Crabtree. "And evidently Major Ruddy's fault entirely."
And they tusseled for a while, Jack tryin' to get Ruddy's throat, but Ruddy always keepin' away, though pretty near gettin' it. Finally Ruddy broke clear loose and hit Jack an awful blow right in the chest. Then Jack went crazy mad. He rushed on Ruddy and got him by the throat and began to choke him.
So I says, 'Jenny, I'll step over to Ruddy's shack and ask him for that money. She says, 'Think you'd better? and I says, 'Sure. So she puts me up a snack of lunch, and I takes my rifle and starts. He slaps his thigh, and laughs, and looks astonished, and then he says: 'My Gawd, Lou, if I hadn't clean forgot!
The pair told Ritter what they thought of him, and each declared that he was going to expose the bully to Captain Putnam. "I'll tell all I know about Ruddy's watch and chain, and about you and that Cameron Smith, too!" declared Coulter. "Don't you do it!" shouted Ritter. "And I'll tell what I know about your sneaking in and out of the dormitories at night," added Paxton.
I bears to the left, and looks down the mountain, and yonder I sees a man and a woman on the valley path to Ruddy's. The man he wants the woman to go on. The woman she wants to go back. I can hear their voices loud and mad, but not their words. Pretty soon Ruddy he takes Jenny by the arm and twists it very slow tighter and tighter. She sinks to the ground.
The shifting water almost blinded Rachael sometimes, and sometimes it seemed as if any way but the way that Ruddy's waving arms indicated was the right one; as if to follow him were utter madness. The water spouted up through the clutch, and once again the engine stopped, and long moments went by before it would respond to the crank again. But Rachael pushed slowly on.
"'Lou, she says, 'I thought I knowed you inside out. But you fooled me! "By reason of the late hour we stops that night in Ruddy's shack, and that's all." The prisoner, after shuffling his feet uncertainly, sat down. "Madam," said the judge, "may I ask you to rise?" The woman stood up; not unhandsome in a hard, bold way, except for her black eye.
Also, that frenzied gurgle from the victim's throat, his choking cry as the light struck him, the squirming body and up-rolling eyes told the boy scout that he was just in time; although the foam was pink upon Ruddy's lips and his congested head was a fire-ball, indeed, that brash head with all his chances in it. "Ha! "No Loyal Scout gives place to doubt, But action quick he shows!"
"I casts about for signs, and pretty soon I finds a wisp of red hair, roots an' all, I says, 'Ruddy's hair, I says. 'He's bin and gone. "So I takes my gun and starts for Ruddy's, over the mountain. It's hours shorter than by the valley, for them that has good legs. "I was goin' down the other side of the mountain when it seems to me I hears voices.
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