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He considered for a moment, frowning. "Yes, you are quite right," he said; "and the sooner we go the better. But we must not start together. If I go off to-night, you can take, say, the afternoon coach to-morrow." "Where to?" "That we must discuss. I think I had b-b-better go straight in to Faenza.
But we're a peaceable crowd, you know; that's one of the leading rules in the constitution of the Ranger Boys' Club." "Yes," chuckled Bandy-legs, "we're set on having peace even if we have to fight for it." "Well," put in Toby, aggressively, "all I c-c-can s-s-say is, they'd b-b-better think twice before t-t-trying to bother our crowd. We're only b-boys, but we've got rights."
I-I reckon yer b-b-better walk fer a ways, as the p-pony will step lighter." "I not care, señor," softly. "Eet be nice to valk; I nevah 'fraid vid you." Brown led the way forward cautiously across the open space, one strong hand firm on the pony's bit, the other barely touching her dress as though it were something sacred.
"You b-b-better b-b-believe we do, Max," was Toby's immediate explosion. "Don't hold back a thing," observed Steve; "because we're all dyed-in-the- wool chums; and what concerns one concerns all." "Cough it up, Max. We're holding our breath, you understand, wanting to know. And none of us come from Missouri, either," Bandy-legs observed, eagerly.
And that c-c-counts some. When I g-g-get the hang of the thing I expect to do a heap b-b-better. Watch out for another hencoop, Bandy-legs, that's a good feller. I'm sure enjoying myself first-rate." "Well, looks to me like something coming along up there again," remarked Bandy-legs, who had splendid eyesight, and was sometimes called "Eagle Eye" by his comrades.
Upon that cynical countenance a close observer might have noted even in the pale light of the moon an expression of sardonic pleasure when he returned the hearty greetings with which his coming was hailed. "I am sorry to have kept you waiting," he said. "We have all the b-b-better appetite," responded the doctor.
As the two swimmers proceeded the mingled sounds aboard the Everest seemed to swell rather than diminish, to such an extent indeed that presently the American turned to Dick and gasped, through chattering teeth "S-s-say! s-s-seems to m-me that there's a r-reg-ular pitched b-a-attle going on aboard there ugh! G-g-guess w-we're b-b-better off here th-th-than there eh?"
He said he wanted the intimation c-c-conveyed to you as unobtrusively as p-p-possible and d-d-desired p-p-particularly that no one should ever know or g-g-guess that it had b-b-been g-g-given. So he sent for me, as your b-b-best friend, since he was sure I would never t-t-tell anybody. "B-B-Better send along your application for an audience.
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