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"A cabin!" echoed Bandy-legs; but there was relief rather than chagrin in his voice, and the pole Steve clutched steadied a little. "Sure it is, and nothing more!" remarked Owen. "B-b-but, f-f-fellows, did yon ever s-s-see such a c-c-cabin?" demanded Toby. "Well, it does look kind of queer," admitted Steve, "but mebbe that's just because of the shack being abandoned so long.
"If she were mine, I should be on the ragged edge with jealousy every hour of the day and night," said the judge, as they set their glasses down. "Y-y-you'd have reason to! B-b-but I'm a horse of a different c-c-color, old boy!
"Oh, why ever did you kill him?" she wailed. "He he wasn't worth it. And I'd have come to you without. And we might have been so happy!" Grey, with a start, sat bolt upright, and in a tone of the last astonishment stammered: "K-K-Kill him? Me? B-B-But I thought you k-k-killed him!" He had never been so taken aback in his life. Olivia sat bolt upright in her turn.
"Hurry, Babs, you have just, time to dress and go with them." "B-b-but I said I wouldn't go," stuttered Barbara, completely taken by surprise. "No matter; tell father you have changed your mind." Helen held out her hand. "Come, to please me," and there was a world of wistful appeal in her hazel eyes which Barbara was unable to resist.
The little thing's been telling some ridiculous story about a man's taking her down under the water on his back!" "He did take me down!" cried Effie, "and I wish I'd stayed there! erhn! erhn! erhn!" and she cried and cried. "Soh, soh, little one," said Father Gilder, "you wouldn't want to leave your old father and mother, would you, Effie?" "N-n-n-no, b-b-but m-m-mother said I didn't go."
'I tell her she must go back directly she has had some luncheon. 'Ah, that's all very well! sobbed Avice. 'B-b-but if you had been m-married so long as I have, y-you wouldn't say go back like that! 'What is it all about? inquired Pierston.
"Hadn't we all better get the four-thirty to Warbleton?" she said, and swallowed. "Oh, if Bobby wants to back out " said Di. "I don't want to back out," Bobby contended furiously, "b-b-but I won't " "Come on, Aunt Lulu," said Di grandly. Bobby led the way through the lobby, Di followed, and Lulu brought up the rear. She walked awkwardly, eyes down, her hands stiffly held.
Now the same summons had seeped around to him from another direction. "I I'll show you de way to Cap'n Renfrew's ef ef you'll come back wid me th'ugh de cedar glade," proposed the child. "I I ain't skeered in de cedar glade, b-b-but hit's so dark I kain't see my way back home. Peter thanked him and declined his services. After all, he might as well go to see Captain Renfrew.
She turned the laugh into a cough, and cleared her throat emphatically once or twice. Clarice sat up and looked at her reproachfully, then she said, 'I know it's absurd. I don't know whether to laugh or cry myself, b-b-but I usually cry. And then in his books he's he's always his own hero. With that Clarice reached at once the climax of her distress and the supreme charge of her indictment.
It seemed as though they would be hopelessly stampeded. Their tongues were paralyzed, and they could only look silently into each other's white faces. Si was the first to recover himself, although it could hardly be expected that he could get over his scare all at once. "D-d-did it hit ye, Sh-Shorty?" he said. "N-no, I guess not; b-b-but ain't it aw-awful. Si?
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