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"Yes, and see if we can come across those old fellows with the beards that told us the corn-fish story," chuckled Chet. "You know," he added, "I have wondered several times since then what the old fellows were up to. Somehow, I'm mighty sure they didn't tell the truth." "I tell you what!" cried Ferd eagerly.
"'That's as it may be, me lad, retorted Meehan, 'but fire I must. The bur-rd won't wait!" Prettyman Sweet was used to being laughed at, yet he flushed at the gibe. "Never mind," he said. "I bring home the game, just the same." "You 'bring home the bacon, in other words," said Chet, approaching him. "Let's see the bunnies?"
Each member of the informal committee meeting in the Beldings' kitchen was given his or her part to do. Laura herself was to see Colonel Swayne, who was the president of the Light and Power Company and who was likewise Mother Wit's very good friend. Jess agreed to interview the local chief of the Salvation Army. Chet would see the Chief of Police to get his permission.
Dan knows the car was taken away from the house and was gone more than an hour that evening, and that Purt did not go with the car. "See? He's shielding somebody the poor fish!" added Chet. "That is what Short and Long has been saying. Now, what do you know about that?"
Chet set his teeth together to make more bearable the pain of those gripping claws; but the hurt was easier to bear when he saw that the girl was more carefully treated. She was close ahead as his captors hustled him from this room into others and yet others, all carved from the solid rock. What a people this must be who could do such work as this!
"Mercy, everybody to-day is as crisp as pie-crust no two ways about it!" whispered Bobby to Jess. The girls plowed home through the deep snow, most of them in no mood for amusement. Even Laura Belding had a long face when she entered the house. "How was the funeral?" asked Chet, who was buried in one of the deep library chairs with a book. "What?" she asked before she caught his meaning.
Then, as if drawn by some magnet, invisible in the distance, the black wings began to beat the air, and the creature moved off in a straight line toward some unknown goal. Another of the membraneous spheres drifted past in the light that came from those fluttering wings. A second showed in repulsive shininess. Chet was aware that there were many of the things about.
The hum of their helicopters rose to a shrill whine as Chet drove the ship out and down through the smothering clouds. "You must hear her fans on your instruments; you can see how we're pitchin'!" He switched off the transmitter for a moment and faced Chet. "They've been checkin' close," he stated. "That was my engineer's number I gave you as we came through the gate.
Following him came Chet Ainsworth puffing and raging, with Henry on his hind legs in close pursuit, making frequent swings with his powerful arms and soundly boxing the head of the fleeing man, and Joe Shafto prodding the bear to urge him on to further effort. Neither Tom nor Hippy made a move to interfere, but Grace sped forward and placed a firm hand on the forest woman's arm.
"What are you raving about?" asked Ferd, although both he and Teddy started obediently toward the attic stairs. "If you wouldn't talk so much, you could hear it," Chet answered, pushing up a trap door that led to a small square platform on the roof. "It's the motor sound the girls heard and that scared them so." "It is, for a fact!" cried Teddy in a joyful whisper.
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