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When night came and still no Hippy, the depression of the Overlanders increased and there was little conversation, each one appearing to be listening, Emma, with a faraway look in her eyes, now and then relapsing into deep thought. Emma was "con-centrating." The same arrangement for guarding the camp, as had been carried out the previous night, was again followed.
"Especially when I am con-centrating on him," spoke up Emma. This brought a laugh and put all the girls in instant good humor. They were interrupted by Julie who came out rubbing her eyes, after a few hours' sleep on a blanket on the floor of the cabin. "Maw wants to know what she'll give Sue and Liz fer breakfast?" she asked. "Breakfast?" exclaimed Elfreda.
"As I was saying, the waves sent out by your 'con-centrating' may have, like the wireless waves, been picked up by my own delicate mental mechanism and " "In other words, Miss Dean overshot the mark she aimed at," interjected Hippy. "Well, something like that, I should say," chuckled the Mystery Man. "Is there anything you do not know?" wondered Anne Nesbit.
Laundry, did you know that Miss Dean had been 'con-centrating' on you?" "What dat? Er hoodoo?" "Yes, that is what Miss Dean is trying to put on you," laughed Hippy. "You listen to me, Wash!" demanded Emma spiritedly. "When I was con-centrating on you, making my mind reach out to yours, didn't your hair seem to stand on end just the way a cat's hair does when you stroke it the wrong way " "Yes'm!
Why, he said that a person, by con-centrating properly, could move a house if he wished." The Overlanders shouted. "You'd better see a doctor," advised Hippy. "Brown Eyes, you haven't told me what happened to you. Who shot you?" "I don't know. I did not see the person who did it. He saw me, evidently. Perhaps, catching a glimpse of my campaign hat, he thought it was you and shot at me.
"I knew it," cried Emma Dean when she learned what had taken place. "I didn't con-centrate for nothing." "You what?" frowned Elfreda. "I have been con-centrating all night long con-centrating on Hippy to call him back to us." "Oh, you darlin'," cried Nora, throwing her arms about Emma. "I should advise you to continue to 'con-centrate," suggested Anne.
"Ah reckons it am watah," answered the colored boy, which brought a laugh from the Overlanders. "Laundry must have been 'con-centrating," observed Anne Nesbit. "This may be Spring Brook," called Miss Briggs. "We shall have to take for granted that it is."
The trouble is that he resists the instant he feels the magnetic current, which makes con-centrating very difficult and takes so much of the imponderable quality out of one " "Emma! Emma!" cried Anne. "For mercy sake come up and get a breath of air. You will drown if you stay down another second." Nora laughed heartily.
"If you were to spend as much time con-centrating as you do tearing about over the landscape, you would be more successful," declared Emma wisely, at which there was a laugh at Grace's expense. "I surely could not be more unsuccessful than I have been," replied Grace smilingly. The afternoon was passed in discussing their situation.
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.
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