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"Oh Ted " he heard her say, very coolly but also with considerable distinctness, as if her voice had to carry, "there's a friend of yours here with a letter for you "

To his chagrin he found his bantering had fallen flat. "Oh, well," gaped Dowdell, gazing out of the window near which he stood, "I know one important fact about the mystery." "What's that?" asked half a dozen quickly. "None of the five hundred is destined to come my way. "That jest saddens a lot of us with the same conviction," muttered Ted Butler, shaking his head.

The blue fire was flaming up brighter now, and it made a strange light on the faces of the Curlytops and Hal as they gathered about. The sky was cloudy and it was getting dark. "Oh, what is it? What is it?" asked Ted and Jan. "It smells just like old-fashioned sulphur matches that my grandmother used to light," said Nora, who had come out, having seen the queer light from the cook-tent.

"There ain't a time but what some of Tad's crowd are snapping at each other to beat the band. Every little while a fight is on the carpet. Takes Tad half the time keeping peace in the family." "Huh!" chuckled Steve. "I've seen him do it by knocking down both of the scrappers, just as neat as you please. Ted likes that way of keeping the peace.

Is there anything you'd specially like to do yourself?" he bethought himself at this stage to inquire. Roberta shrugged her shoulders. "Of course it seems tame to propose settling down by the living-room fire and popping corn, after we get back and have got into our dry clothes," said she, "but " Ted grinned. "That's the stuff," he acknowledged.

I will get MacWilliams to telegraph Kirkland to run an engine and flat cars to within a half mile of the fort on the north, and we will come up on it with the sailors and Ted, here, from the south. You must run the engine yourself, MacWilliams, and perhaps it would be better, King, if your men joined us at the foot of the grounds here and not at the round-house.

Sit still and watch him." Baby William did sit still for a little while, but not for very long. His mother held to the loose part of his blue and white rompers so he would not get far away, but, after a bit, she rather forgot about him, in talking to Ted and Jan about what they were to do and not to do in camp.

Bell, as I suppose, you know well enough," said Mrs. Henshaw, leaning out and regarding him fixedly; "and if you're George you don't." "I'm George," said Mr. Henshaw, hastily. "I'm sure I don't know what to make of it," said Mrs. Henshaw, with a bewildered air. "Ted Stokes brought round a man named Bell this afternoon so like you that I can't tell the difference.

The Reverend Timothy stowed away his snuff-box and gave me his arm again. "The Duke," he continued, "took my point. He is, by the way, not half such a fool as he looks and is vulgarly supposed to be. It is worth quotation. It ran: 'Dear Ted, Ordain Noy, and oblige yours, Fred. The answer which I carried back two days later was equally laconic. 'Dear Fred, Noy ordained.

But it proved to be a needless alarm, for Bob Hunter, Ted Wilson and Thad Warburton came in with noisy greetings. "Look at the digs!" "Boning away on a night like this!" "'Come into the garden, Maud! Chuck that, you fellows, and let's go downtown. What's the matter with a picture show?" It was Thad who asked this, but Bob, with a wry face, put his hand in his pocket and drew out seven cents.