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Then he struck the table with clinched fist a resounding blow which set the concentrated soup dancing in the bowls and scattered the biscuits and the industrious red ants in every direction. "Eureka!" he whispered. "Miss Barrison, your deduction was not only perfectly reasonable, but brilliant. You are right; the pies are for that very purpose. I conceived the idea when I first came here.
"I'm a brute to do it, but I must; I was a bigger brute to engage you, but I did. Don't please don't look at me that way, Miss Barrison! As a matter of fact, I'm tender-hearted and I can't endure it." "If you only knew what I had been through you wouldn't send me away," she said, in a low voice. "It took my last penny to clothe myself and pay for the last lesson at the college of stenography.
The professor was singularly calm, even slightly ironical, as he turned to me, saying: "Perhaps if you relinquish Miss Barrison she may be able to free herself from that dog." I did so immediately, and she deposited the cowering dog in my arms. Her face had suddenly become pink.
"Come over here and let us talk a bit," he said, cordially then hesitated, glancing at Miss Barrison "if your wife would excuse us " The pretty stenographer colored, and I dryly set Mr. Rowan right which appeared to disturb him more than his mistake. "Pardon me, Mr. Gilland, but you do not propose to take this young girl into the Everglades, do you?"
But nature study is not what I have chosen as my life's mission." He looked dreamily across at Miss Barrison. "No, not natural phenomena," he repeated, "but unnatural phenomena. What Professor Hyssop has done for Columbia, I shall attempt to do for Harvard. In fact, I have already accepted the chair of Psychical Phenomena at Cambridge." I gazed upon him with intense respect.
"The moment a single pie is disturbed," he said to me, "I shall close the steel door from the inside, and you and Miss Barrison will then dump the rosium oxide and the strontium into the tank, clap on the lid, turn the nozzle of the hose on the cage, and spray it thoroughly. Whatever is invisible in the cage will become visible and of a faint rose color.
Exasperated, I rose from the table. "He's got eyes like holes burned in a blanket!" I said. "And if ever a flicker of intelligence lighted them I have failed to observe it." The professor regarded me dreamily. "We ought to have more pies," he observed. "Perhaps if you carried the oven into the shanty " "Certainly," said Miss Barrison; "we can lock the door while I make twelve more pies."
"Defence, not aggression," he said, simply. "And the camera?" "A camera record is necessary in these days of bad artists." I hesitated, glancing at Miss Barrison. She was still writing, her pretty head bent over the pad in her lap. "And the clothing?" I asked, carelessly. "Did you get it?" he demanded. "Of course " I glanced at Miss Barrison. "There's no use writing down everything, is there?"
Stoss is in New York," he said drily, "he will hold services every night at Webster and Forster's." "Some American youngsters are celebrated for their cheek," Stoss countered. "Directly after the celebrated Barrison sisters' appearance, after the song 'Linger Longer Loo, Mr. Stoss will raise his hands to heaven and beg the audience to pray." The American spoke without moving a muscle of his face.
I instinctively started back towards the camp whence the beast had fled, and before I had taken a dozen steps Miss Barrison was beside me, carrying the dog in her arms. "I've an idea," she said, under her breath. "What?" I asked, keeping my eyes on the camp. "It's this: I'll wager that we find those pies gone!" "Pies gone?" I repeated, perplexed; "what makes you think "
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