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"Good Heavens!" exclaimed Elwood, aroused from the mute amazement with which he and his more terrified companion had been beholding the scene, as soon as these indications of danger were thus brought to his very feet. "Good Heavens! this is more than I bargained for. See, the fire is catching on the stumps all over the field!" "The house!" half-screamed Mrs. Elwood.
McBain had seen him and slipped away till he should get out of town. "The sneaking cur!" muttered Rimrock in a fury and a passing woman drew away and half-screamed. He ignored her, pondering darkly, and then to his ears there came a familiar voice. He listened, intently, and raised his head; then tiptoed along the wall.
In contrast to Evelyn's half-screamed denunciation Emma's voice was low and even, but it vibrated with stern command. "I she " began Evelyn, but the look in Emma's eyes was too much for her. With a half-sobbing cry of anger she rushed from the room. "Delightful young person," commented Emma dryly, as the resounding slam of the door echoed through the room.
There was Dan Boundary who started life by robbing his dead mother, there was 'Swell' Crewe, who was once a gentleman and is now a thief!" "Damn you!" said Crewe, lurching forward, but the gun swung round on him and he stopped. "There was Lollie who would sell her own child " "I have no child," half-screamed the girl. "Think again, Lollie darling dear little soul!" He stopped.
"An' just think 'bout your book," Judy continued pleadingly. "Think 'bout all them fine things you-all have done wrote down for everybody ter read, 'bout the river allus a-goin' on just the same, no matter what happens, an' 'bout Auntie Sue an' " She stopped, and drew away from him, frightened at the look that came into the man's face. "Don't, Mr. Burns! Don't!" she half-screamed.
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