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"You'll see them soon enough," retorted Frank. "I saw the flash of bayonets in that fringe of woods and I'm sure they're massing." "Do you remember that little thrilly feeling that used to go up and down our spines when we were green at the war game?" grinned Bart. "I feel it now to some extent, but nothing to what I did at first."
There was no stolen will, no hidden treasure, no money, no Rajah's ruby, no ransom of a king; these things Jean named over mentally, and chuckled at the idea of treasure-hunting at the Lazy A. It vas very romantic, very mysterious, she told herself. In this wise she recovered her composure and laughed at her fear, and planned new and thrilly incidents for her novel.
I just tremble when I think of it, but it's a nice thrilly kind of tremble. And we're to have a tableau at the last 'Faith, Hope and Charity. Diana and Ruby and I are to be in it, all draped in white with flowing hair. I'm to be Hope, with my hands clasped so and my eyes uplifted. I'm going to practice my recitations in the garret. Don't be alarmed if you hear me groaning.
And won't You please let something nice happen? I don't mean miracles, or money, or things like that, but something thrilly and exciting and romantic, if You can manage it.
"It's so thrilling to be going away for a long trip, and when it comes to the luxury of a private car, why it's twice as thrilly." Joy choked as a laugh and a sob got mixed up together. Then making an elaborate but not very polite grimace at her chum, she disappeared into the car that was to carry her and her chums westward. "There, she's herself again," laughed Bet.
"Robbing a bank would be the quickest and easiest," she decided whimsically, as she neared the place where she always sheltered Pard. "But not so ladylike. I guess I'll write a book. It should be something real thrilly, so the people will rush madly to all the bookstores to buy it.
"Woman, thy name is not Fickleness, it is thy husband's name! Well, I am glad it is going to be my kind of a story. How did I know but it was to be a historical novel or a problem story ugh! And, instead, you're going to make love to your heroine in the dear old thrilly way." He stirred in his seat, and his eyes sought his hostess.
Even groping through a balsam-scented darkness with one hand clasping the thrilly fingers of a lovely young girl, this distaste did not altogether leave him. "This this mush that you speak of?" he questioned quite abruptly. "With the dogs as as nervous as you say, so unfortunately liable to stampede?
But suitable or not, they were thrilly to hear, and I would have enjoyed hearing them if it hadn't been for an abominable feeling that Billy was right beside me hearing every word also, and with a look on his face as if he thought my new friend was the foolest yet.
"We'll tree him," he said, cheerily, "but I think I could do it easier if I whistled" "Whistle," Morry said. With more directions, more hard breathing, more wetting of lips and tireless trailing of small, blunt finger, and then eureka! there you were! But eureka was not what Jolly said. "Bully for us!" he shouted. He felt thrilly with pride of conquest. "It's easy enough finding things.
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