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"Neither am I," said his sister. "Never, never!" Snap didn't say anything. He lay on the porch asleep, being cooled off after his sport with the water. "I I wish we had our cat, Snoop, back," said Flossie. "Then we wouldn't have played in the water." "That's so," agreed Freddie. "I wonder where he can be?"
The next moment her mother, who turned quickly as she heard Flossie's voice, saw the little girl lean far over the rail of the Bluebird. Then came a splash. Flossie had fallen overboard! "Flossie is in the water!" "Get the boat!" "Snap! Jump in and get her!" "Oh, Flossie!"
Then his dark eyes would glow and he would snap his thumb nail under an upper tooth, with an expression of ravishing joy that only a Castilian billiard player could assume. And, of course, it was always a different woman! "Aha!" muttered the commissary. "There may be a husband mixed up in this. Call that waiter again, and er we will continue the examination outside."
"Her rank, do you say?" she cried. "To the mischief with her rank. What's rank to love? A woman is only a woman, whether she calls herself a duchess or a dairy-maid. A woman with any spirit would marry a bank manager, if she loved him. A man's a man. You should n't care that for her rank." "That," was a snap of Mrs. O' Donovan Florence's fingers.
A grunt followed, and then came a thrashing in the bushes, growing fainter and fainter in the distance. "You hit him!" ejaculated Snap. "Yes, but he is running away for all he's worth," answered Whopper, disappointedly. By this time every one of the young hunters had his firearm. The boat was turned to the bank of the creek, and then each youth looked at the others.
The bully must have closed the door behind him but carelessly, for hardly could he take a dozen steps when it opened again with a scuffle, and the large house dog belonging to the "Crown" flew at his heels with a vicious snarl and snap of the teeth. 'Twas enough to scare the coolest. But the fellow turn'd as if shot, and before he could snap again, had gripped him fairly by the throat.
"Cake is good enough for me," answered Snap, and the others said about the same. Not long after that came another shot, this time from the corner at the end of the block. "They are coming this way!" exclaimed the doctor's son. "Let us go upstairs again and see what is doing." "Be careful!" screamed his aunt. "That lion may jump right up to the second story window!"
Had I known the experience which awaited me in the course of the next twelve hours I should even then at the last moment have sprung upon the shore, and made my escape from the accursed vessel. "Time's up!" said the captain, closing his chronometer with a snap, and replacing it in his pocket. "Time's up!" said the mate.
One by one, creeping under cover of an invisible cloak, I could fell them, and replace them without alarming others. My thoughts leaped to it. We would strike down the guard in the radio room. Release Snap. At the turret we could assail Hahn, and replace him with Snap. Coniston's voice outside broke in upon us. "Prince." He was coming forward. Anita stood in the doorway.
But it is hard to lose the old farm when my heart is buried deep in the good brown soil." "Tut, man! there are three years to run, and what may not happen in three years? Before that time I shall have gone to the wars, and when I have opened a French strong box or two you can buy the good brown soil and snap your fingers at Abbot John and his bailiffs.
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