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Have your cloak on before you take him out!" The cloak had fallen from the chair. Peter set down Scooter in his prison, and picked it up. By the light of the bobbing, coloured lanterns he placed it about her shoulders. Tessa suddenly turned and sat down. "My shoe is undone," she said, extending her foot with a royal air. "Where is the prince?"
"You mean you don't know?" "I wasn't there at the time it happened, no." "Then who was?" Major Briarton spread his hands helplessly. "Nobody was. Your father was alone. From what we could tell later, he'd left the Scavenger to land on one of his claims, using the ship's scooter for the landing. He was on the way back to the Scavenger when the rear tank exploded.
A mysterious shadow seemed to fall athwart the sunshine and pleasantness of the Potwell Inn. "I'm not a scooter," said Mr. Polly. "Uncle Jim is." She whistled a little flatly for a moment, and threw small stones at a clump of meadow-sweet that sprang from the bank. Then she remarked: "When Uncle Jim comes back he'll cut your insides out.... P'raps, very likely, he'll let me see."
He left the tangle of beard on the matting, and Scooter stopped and nosed it sensitively till Everard stooped and picked it up. "That show being over," he remarked drily, "perhaps I may be allowed to attend to business without further interference." Tommy gave a great start and crunched some splinters of the shattered glass under his heel.
Dacre will like that too. It'll be something to amuse us when Tommy's gone." Tommy looked across with a grin. "Yes, keep your spirits up!" he said. "It's dull work with the boys away, isn't it, Aunt Mary? And Scooter is a most sagacious animal almost as intelligent as Peter the Great who coils himself on Stella's threshold every night as if he thought the bogeyman was coming to spirit her away.
Tom waited until the Major and Johnny had been posted; then he hopped on the scooter behind Greg and dropped off almost at the line of darkness, where the sheer slab began. All of them had hoped that there might be a sign, something that Roger Hunter might have left to mark his cache, but if there was one none of them spotted it.
I saw one the other day when I was out with Major Ralston. He tried to kill it with his stick, but it got away. And Scooter wasn't there. They like to hide under bits of carpet like this," said Tessa in an instructive tone, pointing to the strip that had been laid in her honour. "Are you afraid of snakes, Uncle St. Bernard?" "Yes," said Bernard with simplicity. "Aren't you?"
Tessa, however, by this time had also warmed to the game. She paid no more attention to her mother's order than she would have paid to the buzzing of a mosquito. And when Scooter dived under the sofa on which Netta had been reclining, she burrowed after him with a squeal of merriment. It was too much for Netta whose feelings had been decidedly ruffled before Tessa's entrance.
She repeated the words with emphasis. "Run and find Scooter, sweetheart!" she said. "And put all this silly nonsense out of your dear little head for good! I must take baby to ayah now. By and by we will read a fairy-tale together and enjoy ourselves." Tessa ran away comforted, yet also vaguely uneasy.
So Nelsen locked the shop, and they all tore off, out to the place, Ramos leading the way in his scooter. At the scooter club they found an ancient carnival device which used to be called a motordrome. It was a vertical wooden cylinder, like a huge, ironbound, straight sided cask, thirty feet high and wide, standing on its bottom.
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