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Most of the morning we rested up and got our patrol cabins cleaned out and all fixed up, and in the afternoon we banged around and got acquainted with some of the new troops. Just before supper, Westy and I went down for a swim and there were Connie Bennett and two or three of the Elks diving with Skinny. A whole lot of fellows were standing around watching.
She's a selfish egotistical " a thin, feverish hand stayed the girlish outburst. "Never mind, Connie, we'll fly to the woods, and try to forget all about it." And taking advantage of the golden October calm, they came to St. Angé.
It's the only thing he values so he takes care of it by never having it about him, you know," she added, in the flippant way that hid her feelings. "I suppose it is that it's it's the girl he " stumbled Ned, beginning to understand suddenly. "That's her," said Connie, strumming some louder notes. "She died. They had been married a few days. She was taken ill, very ill.
The Connie cruiser lost no time. Its stern tubes flamed, then its steering tubes. It was going to drive directly at the asteroid without making a long run! Rip estimated quickly and realized that the Connie would get to the asteroid at the same time that he reached the cave if he made it. He speeded up as fast as he dared.
Fox for all the privations, snubs and humiliations she had suffered since the years when she curled Connie's straight hair on a stick, nearly blinded herself tucking and embroidering her little dresses, and finished up the week's ironing herself so that her one maid could escort Connie to an exclusive little dancing-class.
Connie promised, laughing. "I'll even contradict all these people who are calling you a brave heroine, if you say so." "I wish you would," Polly said, crossly. "Heroine! how perfectly silly." "Of course it is, now that I come to think of it. You didn't do anything so great," Connie teased, "just stopped a couple of wildly running horses, and saved fifteen girls from sudden death and what's that?
It was quite indifferent to her whether Connie tipped them or not, so long as she gained by the result. And there was no denying the fact that the house had never gone so smoothly as since Connie's arrival. At the same time her conscience reminded her that there was probably something else than "tipping" in the matter.
The Connie sensed something and turned, just as Rip and Dowst flashed downward on his two mates. Rip’s boots caught one Connie where his bubble joined his suit, and the impact drove the man downward to the unyielding surface of the asteroid with a soundless smash. Rip threw up his arms to cushion his helmet as he struck the ground beyond his enemy. He threw the air bottles away.
He always drove the young ladies on their straw-rides, and he would never have even considered trusting them to the care of another. Polly and Lois came out first, to be followed by Betty, and Angela and Connie. They all got in and began sorting the robes all but Polly she went around to the horses' heads. "Good evening, McDonald," she called. "Why, aren't these new?"
The laugh was followed by the soft sound of retreating footsteps. "What happened, Miss Connie?" begged Edith. "No ghost," said their hostess merrily. "I had forgotten. That was clever of Max." Silence again followed for a period, succeeded by the sound of music in the garden below the windows, soft and very sweet. "Oh, is that the ghost?" demanded Frances in great excitement.
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