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She had taken them from place to place, sometimes stopping in small villages, sometimes in great cities, but never for more than a few weeks anywhere. Cousin Dink semed to be a relation of Chester Hunt, and Chester Hunt, as near as Josie could make out, was either a half-brother or stepbrother to Stephen Waller, the father of the children.
"His uncle ought to be in prison this minute." "Have the authorities heard anything of Merrick?" asked Songbird. "Not a thing." "I dink me dot feller has skipped to Europe alretty," vouchsafed Hans Mueller. "He vould peen afraid to stay py der United States in, yah!" And the German boy shook his head wisely.
"I lied," repeated the consul, "every time. I never forgot her for one minute. I was an obstinate ass for running away just because she said 'No' once. And I was too proud a fool to go back. I talked with Rosine a few minutes this evening up at Goodwin's. I found out one thing. You remember that farmer fellow who was always after her?" "Dink Pawson?" asked Keogh. "Pink Dawson.
Nevertheless she was listening to every word that passed between the two men. "I'll telegraph Cousin Dink immediately to prepare the children for the great surprise," Hunt continued. "You need not trouble to do that," said Captain Waller. "I reckon they know we are on the way to get them by this time. Eh, Miss O'Gorman?"
"Can't you hold on until the show is over? What's the matter with you? Don't you see the house we have?" "Mein freund, dot's all right. But mein men der money wants. Don't dink I'm a fool because I'm a German man. I my money wants, too." "Mr. Handy, why don't you ring in the orchestra?" spoke Fogg, who had just come from his dressing-room made-up for Claude Melnotte.
And then Josie told in as few words as possible all she knew of Polly and Peter and of the whereabouts of Dink. "There is no use in my telling you how I know these things," she said, "but it is enough to tell you I do know them, and I also know that the children made their last breakfast with Miss Dingus, alias Hester Broughton, alias Margery Dubois, on a pickle and a stale cream puff.
I dink you pe sea-sick." "Sea-sick?" said I, a little nettled. "Oh no, Herr Pilot, I'm an old sailor, and never get sea-sick." "Vel, I dought you was sick you look bad, sir," answered the good old pilot; "de sea is very rough, sir."
'He'll make a high-class hunter for paper, rags and old iron. "'How did you know that horse was string-halted so quick? says Brown to me when the guy has gone. "'I told you I can smell a dink, I says. But I don't tell him what I sees at the door. "'I think we could use you and your nose around here, he says. 'Are you stuck on Chicago? "'Me fur this joint, I says, lookin' 'round.
"I don't dink they doos dots," persisted the German, and he proved to be right in his surmise. With great labor the warriors bore the heavy tree forward, so that the larger end was against the side of the fort. Then, instead of using it as a battering ram, they lifted it higher until, with an exertion that must have been very great, it was raised even with the log wall.
"Glad to know you intend to help us fight the Indians," answered Tom innocently. "Me fight der Indians? Vot you means py dot?" demanded Hans, his light-blue eyes wide open with interest. "Why, don't you know that we are here to learn how to fight Indians?" went on Tom, with a side wink at those around him. "No; I dink me dis vos von school only."
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