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Updated: May 19, 2025
I suppose it is quite safe to conclude that that fire-bug is in holy orders. Close to the cremation-ground stand a few time-worn stones which are remembrances of the suttee. Each has a rough carving upon it, representing a man and a woman standing or walking hand in hand, and marks the spot where a widow went to her death by fire in the days when the suttee flourished. Mr.
Any seemingly innocent slip sent out from the police telegraph office across the way recording a petty tenement-house fire might hide a fire-bug, who always makes shuddering appeal to our fears; the finding of John Jones sick and destitute in the street meant, perhaps, a story full of the deepest pathos. Indeed, I can think of a dozen now that did.
These men of Paloma seemed bent upon fighting for the possession of Frank Danes, who, having now recovered his senses, emitted shrill appeals for mercy. "Here's the fire-bug! Here's the human match!" "To the nearest tree!" "I've got the rope ready!" In another thirty seconds Frank Danes would have been dangling from a limb of the nearest tree. Again Reade and Hazelton sprang into action.
Cleo promptly let the cork pop, yanked the string, and so dislodged the note. "I knew it," she exclaimed, "a message from the pirates. Listen to this!" Grace and Louise hopped back to hear the contents of the rolled slip of paper. "Short enough," commented Cleo. "It simply says, 'Beware of the fire-bug' and it's signed 'The Weasle'. Well, I never!
"We will surely have to explore those parts, Cleo, even if we do have to take a life saver's kit along with us." "And did you notice Weasle Point? Of course our fire-bug must belong somewhere out in that sand-bar, and just as much of course, we will have to find out all about the queer diggin's.
"Look!" begged Louise grasping the arms of Grace and Cleo. "He has the same kind of paper we found in the bottle!" "Our fire-bug!" breathed Cleo, edging away in mock alarm. "Behold his avenger!" and she held aloft a pretty yellow lolly-pop lately chosen from the candy case. The boy never noticed those about him, but literally poured over his book and dug notes out with a stubby pencil.
You can't make dis yeh nigger think a winkin' fire-bug of a fly-by-night ship ain't a ha'nt." "Ha'nts," said Kipping mildly, "ha'nts is bad things for niggers, but they don't hurt white men." "Lemme tell you, you Kipping, it ain't gwine pay you to be disrespectable to de cook." Frank stuck his angry face in front of the mild man's. "Ef you think ha!"
We have seen your sign and will return for vengeance! Signed 'The Pirates! There!" she concluded. "If any fire-bug finds that maybe he will take heed. Where's the bottle?" Louise produced the erstwhile soda water container, and into this the girls' letter was poked, with the poke-string left out at the cork, as per sample. "We're beginning early," said Cleo. "Louise, I'm glad you know the beach.
How often is he mentioned except as a warning? His best record is that he served to point a moral as 'Macedonian's madman. He made a figure, it is true, in Dryden's great Ode, but what kind of a figure? He got drunk, in very bad company, too, and then turned fire-bug. He had one redeeming point, he did value his Homer, and slept with the Iliad under his pillow.
How you like that, you Injun man!" The fire-bug managed to crawl away, but he left his torch and the kitchen too. Morning dawned. The Indians seemed busy at something. They had ransacked the dug-out and were carrying the cannon-balls in shore, to the hill slope before the fort. Had their cannon come? Yes! No! But look! There it was they were propping it up, to load it and aim it.
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