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But alas! the edge of the road was closer than Ferd had calculated on when maliciously endeavoring to give the pedestrian a scare, and as a consequence the motor-cycle plunged down into the ditch. Ferd managed through a quick effort to leap off his seat just in time to avoid being overwhelmed in the disaster. He scrambled to his feet choking with both dust and anger.
"Idiot," cried Billie, throwing the pillow at him in earnest. "Who ever heard of fried egg in the shell?" "I did," cried Ferd, unabashed by the laughter and the scornful glances turned his way. "Ladies and gentlemen, you see before you to-night the man that invented it." "Well, but nobody has answered my question," said Billie demurely, after the laughter had subsided.
"Let's do that to-morrow," Ferd begged boyishly. "This is too nice a day to spend indoors." So it was decided to go outside and as soon as the dinner dishes were cleared away at which the boys assisted without so much as a grumble the young folks started out on their tour of discovery.
As a town officer you've let Ferd Parrott fun a cheap, nasty rum-hole, corruptin' and ruinin' the manhood of Smyrna, and you've helped cover up this devilishness, though we, the wimmen of this town, have begged and implored on bended knee. Now, that's plain, straight Yankee language, and we want an answer in the same tongue."
"And so, just before Ma's birthday, he took us to lunch we went to Swains " "I remember the day!" said Virginia, in solemn affirmation. "And we were quietly married afterward," said Ferd, himself, soothingly, his arm about his wife, "and Mary Lou's dear mother was very happy about it. Don't cry, dear "
Pedro's countenance had softened, and he had expended all his sternness, but his caution remained. With a significant glance toward his prisoner, the dwarf, he shook his head. "When he is safe, then will I break my fast. The senorita does me honor." "That is what I should like to do, dear Pedro. But is not poor Ferd safe in here? Can we not send him in some supper and turn the lock upon him?"
She laughed as the recollection came back to her mind, and once again she could see the young man she had loved for many years standing up as her knight; Dick too looked pleased at hearing how the father he remembered so well had been ready to defend the right. "I don't think Ferd will say anything about this last little adventure.
In the letter of the Governor and Council of Virginia to the London Company, dated Jamestown, July 7, 1610, signed by Lord De La Ware, Thomas Gates, George Percy, Ferd.
"Look here, Ferd," said the Cap'n, eagerly, forgetting for the moment the presence of Constable Nute, "those wimmen might gabble a little at you and make threats and things like that but but there isn't anything they can do, you understand!" He winked at Mr. Parrott. "You know what I told you!" But Mr. Parrott was in no way swayed or mollified. "They can't' do anything, can't they?" he squealed.
After Matthews' bills, and the hospital, and the nurses and the medicines and the thousand and one things were paid there was left exactly five hundred dollars a year. "You're going to make your home with us, Father," George and Nettie said. Alma, too, said this would be the best. Alma, the married daughter, lived in Seattle. "Though you know Ferd and I would be only too glad to have you."
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