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"I'll go with you a bit further," he said. "In fact, I've got thomething to thay to you; only don't be in thuch a hurry; the woodth can wait till you get there." Quietly compelling Low to alter his own characteristic Indian stride to keep pace with his, he went on: "I don't mind thaying I rather cottoned to you from the time you acted like a white man no offenthe to Teretha.
"We can have something to eat, can't we?" interjected Margery, in a hopeful tone. "Yeth, Buthter mutht have thomething to eat all the time," averred Tommy. "There is plenty for all. Now, come and meet our girls. We have a very fine lot of young women at Camp Wau-Wau this summer, and we think we have an ideal camp, too. I am so sorry that I did not know you were coming.
Skinner explained that it was a "fokth or a dog or thomething" did it. He pointed out that the incubator had not been cleaned. "That it asn't, Sir," said Mrs. Skinner with her arms folded, smiling coyly behind her nose. "We don't seem to have had time to clean it not since we been 'ere...."
Sleary musingly, "one, that there ith a love in the world, not all thelf-interest, after all, but thomething very different; t'other, that it hath a way of its own of calculating with ith as hard to give a name to, ath the wayth of the dogth ith!" Mr. Gradgrind looked out of the window, and made no reply.
"No, thir," reiterated Tommy. "I thaw thomething. It wath a man and he thtood right in front of the window. You thee I wath dreaming that Buthter wath a pirate, and wath trying to thmother me with a thofa pillow and all of a thudden I that up in bed and thaw thith fathe looking in the window at me. That ith why I thcreamed," concluded Tommy, with dignity. "I didn't have the nightmare.
Harriet regarded Tommy's excited face inquiringly. "You really have found it?" "Yeth, yeth." "Where is the treasure?" "I don't know. How thhould I know?" "But you said you had found it," interposed the Chief Guardian. "No, I thaid I had found the trail. Of courthe, I haven't found the treathure. But I've found thomething, and " "What did you find? Come, tell us," urged Harriet.
I want you all to think hard to-night, to see if we have forgotten anything." "The only thing we have forgotten is our dinner. We haven't had a bite to eat since morning," Margery Brown reminded her friends. "Margery can't think of anything but thomething to eat," laughed Tommy. "You mutht learn to eat atmothphere when you're hungry. That ith the way I do."
Those on the houseboat saw the girls coming. "Harriet ith in a hurry about thomething," observed Tommy, wrinkling her forehead into sharp little ridges of perplexity. She did not understand how any one could be in a hurry on such a hot day as this.
Yes, I did find something; something, too, that will make you girls open your eyes. And you too, Mr. Grubb! Sh-h-! Not a word," she warned dramatically. "Come over by the campfire, where we can see, and I'll show you all " "Thomething," finished Tommy Thompson. "Yes, 'thomething," answered Jane with a nod, then hurried toward the camp.
"Of courthe. It wathn't mine, my boy. I'd have thent you a Tharp'th rifle in plathe of that muthle loader you carry, or thomething thenthible. But, I thay! what'th up? You look ath if you had been running all night." Low grasped his hand. "Thank you," he said hurriedly; "but it's nothing. Only I must be back to the woods early. Good-by." But Curson retained Low's hand in his own powerful grip.
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