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So, of course, the business of starting fires was a paying one, and the "fire-bug," like the "cadet" and the dive-keeper, was a part of the "system." So it was quite a possible thing that the man who had burned up this little girl's three sisters might have been allowed to escape. I happened to say this in the little girl's hearing, and I saw her pitiful strained eyes fixed upon Sylvia.
"And we might also get a visit from friend fire-bug," cautioned Grace. "And I don't know whether our cottage is insured or not. But I do know it has lovely furniture and mother says it's a perfect joy to come into a house, all spick and span without having to do the spicking. No, Cleo, please don't invite the Weasle to call." "I have a tiny dance card pencil," offered Louise.
I've never seen him still in his life, but I don't ever want to see him as quiet as that. And say, girls " and she drew as many of them to her as her arms would reach, "the bottom of that boat was full of yellow paper rolls!" "He couldn't be the fire-bug!" protested Louise. "I don't believe he could either," went on Grace, now really serious. "But I thought I ought to mention about the papers."
To go back to that preliminary, trial: The Happy Family, when H. J. Owens was committed safely to the county jail, along with the fire-bug, took the next train to Great Falls with witnesses and the Honorable Blake. They filed their answers to the contests two days before the time-limit had expired. You may call that shaving too close the margin of safety.
A hundred men turned, looking blankly at their nearest fellows. "They've gone down in the flames!" called another voice. "Reade and Hazelton have lost their lives!" "That'll make their enemies happy!" groaned one man, and other voices took it up. "Carter," shouted one big man, running to the proprietor, "if this blaze is the work of a fire-bug, then look for Reade and Hazelton's enemies.
Beware of the fire-bug," she repeated, "and not a human in sight that fire-bug fires. And signing himself the Weasle! Must be pretty snappy. Well, I say girls, as early as we thought we were getting down, before all the other schools were dismissed, the little old fire-bug got here first. What do you make of it?"
"That would be silly, even if pardonable, and I don't think we could make a very creditable report to headquarters on such a pretense." "Oh, that is clear enough," insisted Cleo. "It is just this way. We were confronted by this fire-bug thing, directly we struck the place, and its evidence has been piling up ever since.
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