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"Why, I I con-centrated on you and brought you back," answered Emma solemnly. "What a pity," murmured Hippy sadly. "And she so young." "Who was the man who rescued you?" questioned Grace, after the laugh at Emma's expense had subsided. "I don't know. I never saw him before. He is a slick article, whoever he may be." "Are you certain that it was not our Mystery Man?" asked Anne. "I am. Say!
Didn't I con-centrate on everything?" demanded Emma triumphantly. "You did," agreed Hippy in a guttural voice. "And didn't everything turn out just as I con-centrated that it should?" "It did," rumbled Hippy. "Then there is nothing more to be said," finished Emma amid the laughter of her companions. That night, having no tents to cover them, the Overland party slept in the cave.
"You you saved my life?" questioned Lieutenant Wingate in amazement. "Uh-huh." Hippy laughed uproariously. "You poor child, you got us all in Dutch, that's what you really did." "With your assistance, Hippy," interjected Anne. "How did you save his life, please, Emma?" "I con-centrated. When Lum pointed the revolver at Hippy, I put my mind on making him miss his aim. He did, didn't he?"
"Yes," agreed the girls, Hippy saying nothing at all. "Then, I con-centrated on him that he might not shoot again. He didn't, did he?" "Of course, you are right in what you say," agreed Nora. "He did miss and he did not shoot again, but I think you are drawing the long bow, darlin', in taking all the credit to yourself. What do you say, Hippy?" she asked solemnly. "Nothing! Nothing at all.
Then you came back, just like the cat did in the old story." "Where did you get that piffle?" chortled Hippy when his laughter had subsided. "From a professor who visited our town last winter. He said that, by con-centrating, one could bring anything to pass that he wished provided he con-centrated intently enough and long enough.
We played a neat trick on them," chuckled the lieutenant. "Don't crow," advised Emma Dean. "It isn't daylight yet. I will con-centrate. I con-centrated all the time you were away, and you came back, didn't you?"
It now lacks only about two hours to daylight, and we shall be able to make an early start, now that Washington is here." "Yes, he's here, but he would not be here if I had not con-centrated on him," spoke up Emma Dean. "For the love of goodness, drop that piffle!" begged Hippy wearily. "We have enough serious matters on hand to think about without having to listen to prattle.
"Why, Emma, how is that?" wondered Grace. "I con-centrated on him, I did, and " "She did," glowed Nora, running forward to meet her husband. "You should open an office when you get home," advised Miss Briggs. "Let me see, your business sign should read, 'Miss Dean, Imponderable Concentrator." "Make all the fun you wish.
I thought the shots sounded off the other way and got deeper into the mess trying to find the camp." "You are a fine woodsman," rebuked Elfreda. "Yes, and you wouldn't be here yet had it not been for me," declared Emma Dean. "How's that?" demanded Hippy. "Well, you see, when we found that you did not come back and we surmised that you were lost, I just sat down and con-centrated.
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