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At ten minutes of seven a key clicked in the lock of the outer door, and William and Billy entered the hall. It was almost dark. Bertram could not see their faces. He had not lighted the hall at all. "Well," he began sharply, "is this the way you receive your callers, Billy? I came home and found Miss Winthrop just leaving no one here to receive her! Where've you been? Where's Eliza?

"Hello, Isabel," said Dolly, "I saw you all come in 'he seen that a mother and child was there!" This last was the special phrase of the moment. Susan had heard it forty times within the past twenty-four hours, and was at no pains to reconcile it to this particular conversation. "But you, you villain where've you been?" pursued Dolly, to Susan, "why don't you come down and spend a week with me?

Presently he said "Where've you been to-night, Becodar?" "I have paid my respects to the Maison Dore, to the Cafe de la Concordia, to the Cafe Iturbide, senor." "And how did paying your respects pay you, Becodar?" "The noble courtesy of these cafes, and the great consideration of the hidalgos there assembled rendered to me five pesos and a trifle, senor." "The poor ye have always with you.

"Hello, sport," he said, smiling wantonly, "could you take a pore feller in over night?" "Sure thing, I can," responded Hardy gayly. "Where've you been all the time?" And Creede chanted: "Down to Bender, On a bender, Oh, I'm a spender, You bet yer life! "And I'm broke, too," he added, sotto voce, dropping off his horse and sinking into a chair.

Dinah sat crouched together on a cricket at the other side of the hearth, listening with interest. Hiram did not seem to see her. "Did you go off with Levi?" said he at last, speaking abruptly. The girl looked up furtively under her brows. "You needn't be afeared to tell," he added. "Yes," said she at last, "I did go off with him, Hi." "Where've you been?"

"Where've you been?" he asked, for he noticed this. "What've you been doing?" "I've killed the bear that tried to kill him," she answered. She spoke louder than she meant. Her voice awakened Ferrol. "Eh, what?" he said, "killed the bear, mademoiselle, my dear friend," he added, "killed the bear!" He coughed a little, and a twinge of pain crossed over his face.

"I've been in trouble, sir," said the cook humbly; "you'll 'ardly believe the trouble I've been in through trying to do the skipper a kindness." "Don't you come none of that with me," roared the mate warningly. "Where've you been? Come, out with it!" The cook, still somewhat weak from his adventures, leaned against the companion, and with much dramatic gesture began his story.

He hung up, and Joe went out of the phone booth. Mike looked at him with yearning eyes. Joe lied a little, because Mike rated it. "My father's on the way here to help make it work," he told Mike. Then he added untruthfully: "He said he thought he knew all the big men in his line, and where've you been that he hasn't heard of you?" He turned away as the Chief whooped with glee.

"Hi, Jerry, where've you been?" cried Andy. "I told you he'd come back," said Cathy. Jerry was so grateful to Cathy for having believed in him even when things looked bad that he thought he would never again tease her about reading lovey-dovey books or admiring herself in mirrors. "Oh, Jerry!" cried his mother. Jerry read the relief and welcome in her face the love for him.

"Regler Sons o' Malty biziniss, like I seen in St. Looyey," commented Shorty to himself. "Masks, shrouds, red fire and gong, all the same. But where've I heard that croakin' voice before?"