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As for Don recommending him Gee! wasn't that a hot one? "If I get it," he said in a low voice, "will you stand by me if I get stuck? I'm an awful bonehead sometimes." "Every patrol leader in the troop will be glad to help," said Don. "I know." Tim nodded. "But I'd sooner go to you." Their course still carried them north. By degrees, as they advanced, Tim's boldness became tinged with caution.
What would Benny Glover think when he failed to show up or even telegraph? Benny's sister was coming down from Boston with some friends and oh, it was simply imperative that he get some word ashore. He let his eyes rove over the ship in desperation, then a happy thought came to him. "The wireless!" he said aloud. "Bonehead! Why didn't you think of that long ago?"
Why didn't you say that right off, you bonehead? Come on. Where is it?" And they entered the Salvation Army hut smiling.
"Well, anyway, I've got the road!" she answered with spirit, "and that's more than I did before. If I'd followed my own judgment instead of taking your advice " "Your judgment!" he mocked; "say, shake yourself, kid you've pulled the biggest bonehead of a life-time." "I don't care!" she answered, "I'll get forty thousand dollars.
And, at that, Auntie was holdin' the lead. Down at Fifty-ninth, what does her driver do but swing into Fifth Avenue, right in the thick of it. That was no bonehead play either, for if there's any one stretch in town where you can let out absolutely reckless and get a medal for it, that's the place.
As the chauffeur felt for the starter and threw in the clutch Bob was desperately conscious of the old woman's accusing gaze on the back of his head. "Say," he growled at Jimmy, huddled miserably in the seat beside him, "you sure did play a bonehead trick this time. She'll just spoil the fun for all of us." "Ah, cut it out," retorted Jimmy, wriggling uncomfortably.
"By the way, Swifty," says I, "you remember that Barton party who was in here one day?" "Mister Barton," says he reprovin'. "Say, he was a reg'lar guy, he was!" "Think so?" says I. "Think!" explodes Swifty indignant. "Ahr-r-r chee! Why, say, any bonehead could see he was a real' gent to the last tap of the gong." And, say, I didn't have the heart to break the spell.
Then I saw the three of them pass through the circle of light, walking toward the city, and that's all I know about it. I wasn't under orders to tell them when to go, or where to go, or when not to go. It wasn't for me to interfere." "Bonehead!" exclaimed Jimmie. The marine glanced up at the little fellow with a frown. "Don't you go to abusing me," he said. "I won't stand for it.
Bonehead, the old lawyer who had cast Winnifred upon the world. "Miss Clair," said the Lawyer, advancing and taking the girl's hand for a moment in a kindly clasp, "the time has come for me to explain all. You are not, you never were, the penniless girl that you suppose. Under the terms of your father's will, I was called upon to act a part and to throw you upon the world.
"Can't you see how tired he is?" Al glanced at her from under his eyebrows. "He's all in, but he's got to make it," he said. "I've been that way myself and made it. What I can do, a horse can do. Come on, you yella-livered bonehead!" Snake went on, urged now and then by Al's quirt.
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