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Also he has a kit bag packed for two of us and collects from Nimms a full outfit of daylight clothes for Penryhn. We got away about five o'clock and as Mr. Maybe we would have, too, if we'd caught the Staten Island ferries right at both ends, and hadn't had two blow-outs and strayed off the road once. As it is we finally lands at little joint that shows on the map as Forked River about 1 a.m.
"Another blow-out is arranged for to-night, just as I had expected," Reade muttered, with an angry thrill, as he glanced at a figure down on the beach. "Moreover, my guess that the huge negro is the fellow who touches off the blow-outs has proved to be the correct one." Down on the beach a big, black man was moving about stealthily.
Ellsworth made a speech and said we were all much obliged to him and, oh, boy, when that tug started down the river again, didn't we stand on the cabin roof of the house-boat and cheer Captain Savage. He had about six blow-outs before he got very far just answering our cheers. Oh, cracky, but he was one fine man. I don't know what to call this chapter. Maybe it will come without calling, hey?
"It isn't a secret," Joe answered. "At least my increase in salary isn't, for I told you about it. What Tonzo was hinting at was that I ought to give some sort of banquet." "Why?" Helen demanded. "Oh, because I'm getting so much money. Well, I suppose I am earning big pay, but, as I claim, I'm doing big work that is double work. But I'm not going to waste my money on blow-outs."
Bilkins tried to conjecture who was meant by old flint-head, but was obliged to give it up. Mr. O'Rourke furthermore informed Margaret that he had three hundred dollars prize-money coming to him, and broadly intimated that when he got home he intended to have one of the most extensive blow-outs ever witnessed in Rivermouth. "Och!" laughed Margaret, "that's jist Larry over agin.
"Then, for Heaven's sake, what did you find?" asked Orton. "I found in this air," replied Kennedy, "a very peculiar mixture an explosive mixture." "An explosive mixture?" echoed Orton. "Yes, Jack, the blow-outs that you have had at the end of the tunnel were not blow-outs at all, properly speaking. They were explosions." We sat aghast at this revelation.
"I'll put Acton on your track, my beauty, and perhaps he'll make you see or feel reason." "That game's no good, young shaver. I don't want to see Mr. Acting no more than you want to tell him of your little blow-outs. Look here, are you going to pay? Yes or no?" "I haven't got the money," said Jack, at his wits' end.
The adventurer in Duneland hardly knows, as he works his way through one of the infrequent "blow-outs," whether to thank Nature for her aid or to tax her with her cruelty. She offers few other means of reaching the water save for these nicks in the edges of the great cup; yet it is possible enough to view her as a careless and reckless handmaiden busily devastating the cosmical china-closet.
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