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"You say there may be something in it for me?" Mr. Harvey sat down. "Cert. There'll be a reward a big one." The captain turned it over. "It is as much as my place is worth, but last evening one of the members was talking fierce about him." "Yes, so I heard," said Mr. Harvey, who had heard nothing of the kind and who, not for an instant, had expected to tumble on a fierce-talking member.
No; we've got enough for a growler among us, but not enough for tickets to the New Forest. We must just go home. They won't be so savage when they find we've really got home all right. You know auntie was only going to take us home in a cab. 'I believe we ought to go to Croydon, Anthea insisted. 'Aunt Emma would be out to a dead cert, said Robert.
But there was no answer, though they waited several minutes on the chance of hearing some sound that would indicate Jim's whereabouts. 'If he didn't hear that, observed Tony, 'he can't be within three miles, that's a cert. We'd better separate, I think. They were at the ploughed field by Parker's Spinney now. 'Anybody got a coin? asked Daintree. 'Let's toss for directions.
The tornado lasted about three minutes that was all and then it passed, and all those tremendous sounds became muffled in the distance as it retreated. Gradually the stunned senses of the boys began to recover, and they heard Peter speaking. "It missed us," he was saying. "It came pretty close, though. I thought the hotel was gone for a cert." Then he struck a match and held it to his pipe.
After supper, little Eddie Allgire teases his brother D. to tell him about Santa Claus. D. is cracking walnuts on a flat-iron held between his knees. "Is they any Santy Claus, D.?" "W'y, cert, they is. Who says not?" "Bunty Rogers says they ain't no sech a person."
"Well, Fenn ought to be a cert for the hundred and the quarter, to start with." "But the School House must get the long run, and the mile, and the half, too, probably." "Yes. We haven't anyone to beat Milligan, certainly. But there are the second and third places. Don't forget those. That's where we're going to have a look in. There's all sorts of unsuspected talent in Kay's.
We are barking up the wrong tree, Merriman. I'll stake my life nothing came out of that boat but props. No; what those people are up to I don't know, but there's one thing a dead cert, and that is that they're not smuggling." They rowed on in silence, Hilliard almost sick with weariness and disappointment, Merriman lost in thought over their problem.
Lilith had done it her influence, her love! He thought long and thought hard, but still hopelessly. And again, unconsciously, he broke out into soliloquy. "Yes, I'd sell my soul to the devil himself!" "Maybe the old man would be dead off the deal. Likely he reckons you a dead cert. already, Stanninghame."
It was in the chapel of this house of the Little Sisters of Samaria that Robbins and Dumars had stood during that eager, fruitless news search of theirs, and looked upon the gilded statue of the Virgin. "Thass so, boys," said madame, summing up. "Thass ver' wicked man, M'sieur Morin. Everybody shall be cert' he steal those money I plaze in his hand for keep safe. Yes.
"You look it," says I; "but cheer up. You never was much account anyway; so there's no great harm done." Then he begins to blubber, and leak brine, and take on like a woman with a sick headache. "It wasn't my fault," says he. "I was led into it. Torchy, tell them I was led into it! You'll believe that, won't you?" "Cert," says I. "I'll make affidavit I seen 'em snap the ring in your nose.
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