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I couldn't go up there and sit outside, with every one I knew coming out and wondering why I brought you instead of Ferd! Elsie wouldn't like it. You must see " "It would take us fifteen minutes at least to go up and get Ferd," objected the doctor, seriously; "and he's not much better than I am at running it, anyway!" "Well, I'm sorry," said Sally, shortly, "but I simply couldn't do it. Dr.
Always he kept a screen of leaves between them, less needed soon, as the unconscious guide led the way out of the sunlight into the depths of gloom. The cave at last! But the half-wit, Ferd? Had he guessed its secret? On and on, it seemed interminably. Now and then the dwarf would pause and listen, but at every halt there was utter silence behind him.
The boy had failed to come that morning, and their supply of canned goods was running dangerously low. "Let's all go," Chet suggested. "We could walk down and ride back." "But, oh, Chet, it's so frightfully hot," Billie objected. "I'm sure we'd get sunstroke or something." "Yes, it's a terribly long walk," added Violet. "Well, we could wait till toward evening," said Ferd.
"Say, you'd better look out," he said belligerently. "I can't hit a lady " "A which?" murmured Billie, with a wicked glance in Laura's direction. "For calling me names," continued Ferd, glaring at Chet, who began to tremble in mock fright; "but there's nothing to keep me from wiping the ground up " "Yes there is!
Once he was seized upon by Ferd who had been hovering around, possibly at his father's desire, to hear what was being said of the man who had gone down with such a smash. Ferd looked doleful enough, and Dick did not have the heart to feel glad.
"We knew what kind of appetites you would bring along with you, so we decided on safety first." "Now we know you girls are bright," said Ferd admiringly, and Billie made a face at him. The ride to the house was one big lark. The boys sat on the trunks among the provisions, and the girls went off into gales of merriment at their comical efforts not to step on the eggs or fall among the fruit.
"Seems that your wife and mine have gone temperancin' again to-day with the bunch," remarked Hiram, relighting his cigar. "I don't know what difference it makes whether old Branscomb and the other soshes round here get their ruin in an express-package or help Ferd to a little business. They're bound to have it, anyway."
Billie groaned inwardly and seemed about to speak, but Violet stopped her with a hand on her arm. "Might as well get it over with," she whispered. "Chet is sure to hear of it later if he doesn't now." So Billie waited, but her heart ached as she watched Chet march up smilingly to hear "the glad news." "We're going to Boxton Military Academy." Ferd fairly shouted it at him.
To think that our ghost turned out to be an inventor after all!" "You look as if you were disappointed," gibed Ferd, beginning to recover from his bewilderment. "We'll manufacture a brand new ghost if you say so, but it may take time " "Goodness, you needn't bother," said Violet, going over to the wrecked machine and regarding it wonderingly. "We've had enough of ghosts to last us a lifetime.
Gilligan," she added, with a hysterical giggle, "has the broom and Laura has the poker." "Maybe we'd better stop on the way and gather up a few bedposts," suggested Ferd, as they took the last flight of stairs on a run and landed in the lower hall. "Hello, did you find anything?" sang out Chet, as the girls, looking scared but valiant, came out to meet them. "Where's Mrs. Gilligan?"
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