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"Well, Bennie," he cried, "so we've got a prisoner, have we?" "No, sir," whimpered the man from Boston, "not a prisoner. I come over, I did." "You what?" "I come over to your side, sir." "How about it, Ben?" "Why, so he says. We were having a pretty hard wrestling match, but he says it was to cover up his escape from the other party."
He had ascended about halfway when a voice echoed among the girders. A red face was peering down at him over the edge of the platform. "Hello!" said the face. "I'm all right, I guess." Bennie gripped tight hold of the ladder, stiff with fear. He thought first of jumping down, changed his mind, and, shutting his eyes, continued automatically climbing up the ladder.
Then a hand gripped him under the arm and gave him a lift on to the level floor of the platform. He steadied himself and opened his eyes. Before him stood a man in blue overalls, under whose forehead, burned bright red by the Labrador sun, a pair of blue eyes looked out vaguely. The man appeared to be waiting for the visitor to make the next move. "Good morning," said Bennie, sparring for time.
"She'd never dream of lifting a finger against Bennie no matter what he did. And she lives in terror that he'll cut her switch in some temper tantrum." "Hmph! Well, I'm going up right now and tell her if I hear another word from her about spanking Bennie, I'll cut her switch myself. Then she can go back to Central for reprogramming and see how she likes it." "Ben! You wouldn't." "Why not?
There's plenty of stuff in the valley, but we can't have him come down there, with the tower, the antennæ, and all the rest of the mess." "We might show him the big Ray," ventured Atterbury. "The thing can be pointed up and I can keep the turbine running. You can start the fire as soon as you hear his motors and I'll shut down as soon as I see your fire." "Good idea!" agreed Bennie.
The whole affair resembled nothing which he had ever conceived of either in the air, the earth, or the waters under the earth, the bizarre invention of a superhuman mind. It seemed as firmly anchored and as immovable as the Eiffel Tower, and yet Bennie knew that the thing could lift itself into the air and sail off like a ball of thistledown before a breeze.
In the meantime, I'll be little fairy godmother, an' if you'll get on your bonnet I'll stake you and the young 'un to strawberry shortcake an' chocolate ice cream." So it happened that a wondering Frau Knapf and a sympathetic Frau Nirlanger were called in for consultation an hour later. Bennie was ensconced in my room, very wide-eyed and wondering, but quite content.
So long as he had his mother, and his mother smiled at him, life was all sunshine. He gave his name to the teacher, and answered all her questions readily, and was duly enrolled as a pupil in Grade I, along with Bennie Cowan, Edgar Zinc and Bessie Brownlees, and set at work to make figures.
Bennie found comfort in Holliday's smile, and felt toward him as a child does toward its mother. They neared shore and ran alongside a ramshackle pier, up the slippery poles of which Bennie was instructed to clamber. Then, dodging rotten boards and treacherous places, he gained the sand of the beach and stood at last on Labrador.
Couldn't do it last night 'cause they didn't know what engine we were going to have." Mrs. Cowels got up and prepared breakfast and Bennie ate hurriedly and then began to look out for the caller. He would have gone to the round-house at once but he wanted to sign the callbook at home. How he had envied the firemen who had been called by him.
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