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"I only jest wanted for to see the last of the b'y, and I s'pected as how you'd land your pilot thereabout or at Bideford, where I told the man in charge o' my schooner to call in for me; but it don't matter much where I get ashore."
Thereupon the younger lad gave the particulars of the incident. Hank listened attentively, and when he learned of the part played by Motoza, the vagrant Sioux, his interest deepened. "So that scamp is in the mountains? I s'pected it; he claimed to have shot the buck and wouldn't divide till Jack took a hand. Why did you let him have any of it?" "Because he had the right.
The same spell has affected Toto, I assure you; but he's a wise little dog and while he knows everything that is said to him he prefers not to talk." "Goodness me!" exclaimed Dorothy. "I never s'pected Toto was fooling me all this time." Then she drew a small silver whistle from her pocket and blew a shrill note upon it.
She was all of a twitter, like you've seen de little hungry birds in de nest when dar mudder is comin' wid a worm, an' she was jess as cold an' slimpsy an' starved when he went away as dem little birds is when de mudder is shot on de wing an' never comes wid de worm. You know what I mean. She s'pected somethin' an' didn't get it.
Miss Jemima wasn't willing at first, but the Squir sot in and said his colored people hadn't much chance for fun anyhow, and shouldn't be kept back from what come along in a nat'ral way." "Squir Rhodes was ales a pusson as I s'pected," said Clorinda. "Let's see how many of 'em will count up."
"Jack Chase cut and run!" cried a sentimental middy. "It must have been all for love, then; the signoritas have turned his head." "Jack Chase not to be found?" cried a growling old sheet-anchor-man, one of your malicious prophets of past events: "I though so; I know'd it; I could have sworn it just the chap to make sail on the sly. I always s'pected him."
"Maybe they don't have girl scouts any more," she suggested. "Aw, I don't care a snap 'bout girl scouts!" he answered. "Cis, he called me 'old fellow' I like it! And he's twenty-one. And you just ought t' see the shirt he wears! not with little flowers on it, like Mike Callaghan's. And, oh, Cis, he never even s'pected that I cook, or wash, or do anything like that!
They rattled on the animal's horns, and then, with another "Moo!" the creature turned and crashed back through the bushes. "And Dinah thought that was I, tickling her with a fish tail," said Bert, laughing. "Dat's what I did, honey!" the colored cook said, with a laugh. "I s'pected yo' was up to some ob yo' all tricks!"
"T'ings have been runnin' agin' me, an' I've been on de rocks fer a long time, an' I didn't know how I was ter make a haul any easier dan by breakin' a kid's arm. It warn't no killin' matter nohow, an' so I took der job. I never s'pected I was ter run up agin' anyt'ing like wot you are. If I had, why, wild hosses wouldn't get me ter tried it." "My enemy knew enough not to meet me himself."
It was the morning after the two had dined at the Embury home, and they were breakfasting together in Stone's hotel apartment. "Well, Mr. Stone, as you know, I left Mrs, Embury's last night d'eckly after Mr. Hendricks took his deeparture. As I s'pected, there was trouble a-waitin' for him just outside the street doorway, that Hanlon chap was standing and he met up with Mr.
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