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"My friend is badly hurt. Someone get an ambulance! Fripp, you call one." "That was Jagle who spoke," Russ whispered to the girls. "But I don't know the other one." "He doesn't seem to be badly hurt," remarked the motorman. The conductor, with a little pad and pencil, was getting the names of witnesses to be used in case suit was brought.
"What happened?" asked Ruth, when he had knocked on the door of their hall and had been admitted. "Not much," he replied. "They took Merley home, instead of to a hospital. He wouldn't go to an institution, he said." "Did those other two men go with him?" asked Alice. "Who, Fripp and Jagle? No, they wouldn't be allowed to ride on the ambulance. But they got a taxicab and went off in that.
"If he's hurt the best place for him is a hospital," remarked the motorman. "But I can't see where he's hurt." "I can't walk, I tell you," whined Merley, and he attempted to get up, but fell back. One of his friends caught him in his arms. "There, you see! Of course he's hurt!" declared Jagle. "Go call an ambulance, Fripp."
And those are the same two men who were with him before," answered Alice. "Dan Merley the man who is going to sue daddy for that five hundred dollars!" went on Ruth, clasping her hands. "And with him are the two men who were present when the street car accident happened in New York Fripp and Jagle. They are the hunters who have been annoying Mr. Macksey." "Oh, what shall we do?" asked Ruth.
Hackit would say; 'an' I'm fool enough to give 'em her, though Sally wants 'em all the while to sweep the floors with! Such was Dame Fripp, whom Mr.
Thus Dame Fripp, in addition to 'property' supposed to yield her no less than half-a-crown a-week, was in the receipt of professional fees, the gross amount of which was vaguely estimated by her neighbours as 'pouns an' pouns'. Moreover, she drove a brisk trade in lollipop with epicurean urchins, who recklessly purchased that luxury at the rate of two hundred per cent.
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