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"Yes, sir; they were taken down yesterday and put in the basement. Shall I get them?" "I think you'd better," I said. "Will you need any help?" "No, sir; they're not heavy. If you'll wait here, you can snap the bolts into place when I lift them up from the outside." "Very well," I agreed, and Parks hurried away. I entered the inner room and stopped before the Boule cabinet.
"I didn't mean no harm, indeed, I didn't! "I suppose you think it no harm to steal!" said Shep, sarcastically. "I wasn't stealing your things." "You were!" "No, I wasn't. I was er only going to hide 'em on you." "You went a mighty long way to do it," said Snap, coldly. "Where were you going to hide them, at the second-hand shop or the pawn-broker's?" "I'm telling the plain truth.
The silence that followed was tense as if something in the atmosphere was about to snap; and in the midst of it the wheels of Sir John's retreating carriage came to the ears of the three persons in the drawing-room. It was only for a moment, but in that moment the two men saw clearly. It was as if the veil from the girl's mind had fallen leaving her thoughts confessed, bare before them.
"Almost like a dream," Nan said, and I think she was quite right. "Where's my basket?" Flossie asked, after they had ridden on for about an hour. "Do you want to see if Snap is in it this time?" her father jokingly inquired. "Snap's too big to get in my basket," Flossie answered. "He's a big dog. But I want to get some of the cookies Dinah gave me. I'm hungry."
Snap and Whopper hurried in the direction, and as the little youth managed to get a footing near the beach they ran in up to their ankles and dragged him to safety. Then all three began to haul in on the fishing line. "I see what it is!" cried Snap. "A maskalonge -and a whopper, too!"
It was delicately gauged, a nerve-racking discomfort without definite pain, a thing to snap the dreadful tension of a man's endurance at the end. "Ah! Monsieur!" cried Jokai wildly. "It is inconceivable " "Play!" said Carl briefly. White and grim his guest obeyed. In terrible silence they played the game through to the end.
But I guess my dog would like to see an Indian and some cowboys!" However, the older Bobbsey twins knew it was out of the question to take their pets with them, so they made the best of it, Bert petting Snap and talking kindly to him. Snoop had gone out to the barn where he knew he might catch a mouse. In a little while Mr. Hickson drove up for the trunks which were loaded on the lumber wagon.
There was no sound but the dash of rain against the windows, and the heavy rumble of thunder overhead. Once more Chick grasped his heavy weapon and began the attack in earnest. Blow followed blow, as fast as his small arms could swing the crowbar. Suddenly a spring seemed to snap, and out poured a stream of money that rolled about his feet, and off into the farthest corners of the room.
The next instant he had recovered his genial manner to me, but I saw that again he laboured for some moments painfully for his breath. The door of the vestibule closed with a vicious snap.
"They are just about mean enough." "No, they can't do that," answered Snap. "I made sure of it before I left home." "They are carrying something between them," said Whopper, as the men came closer. "Looks like a deer." "It is half of a deer the very deer we killed!" cried Giant. Soon the men were within speaking distance. "Good morning, boys," said Giles Faswig, blandly.
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