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Then, with an attempt at his old-time, suave banter, he inquired: "Are you young gentlemen ready for the collar and neck-tie party that we've planned to give you?" "As ready as you are," observed Tom dryly. "And you?" asked Duff, turning to Hazelton. "Are you ready?"
Think of the rugged bits of Nature in any part of the world, waiting for the conquering hand and the constructive brain of the engineer! Harry, don't you long to do some of the big things that are done by engineers? Don't you want to get into the real -the big performances of our profession?" "Of course," nodded Hazelton. "For that reason, aren't we doubly wasting our time here?"
At last Harry Hazelton turned sharply, for his own ears were attuned to the stillnesses of the western forests and his hearing was unusually acute. He had just heard a sound on the wall, not far away. Instantly the young engineer was on the alert. Then his eyes, piercing the darkness, made out the crawling, dark form, which did not appear to be more than fifty feet away from him.
Tom dragged his drowsy partner from the bed, seating him on the edge of it. "Now, shed your pajamas and pull on something decent," Reade commanded grimly. "Hustle! There's a conference going on outside, and you're wanted. Hurry! Want me to dump the pitcher of water on you? I'll do it if you give your eyes another rub!" Hazelton was now fully convinced that something important was in the air.
"I wonder how cold it is outdoors?" pondered Hazelton aloud. "Somewhere below zero, certainly," rejoined Tom. "Suppose we call that definite enough?" "I'd like to get out into this storm," hinted Dave. "So would I," nodded Dick with energy. "It would be fine to be out in the grandest storm that we've ever seen! Down in Gridley I suppose the folks have the sidewalks cleaned off."
Sedley and Hazelton I listened calmly to her plans for getting out of the difficulty. She suggested pretending a miscarriage, wished me to invite her to my house, where she would become ill, and unable to leave till after her child was born. The child was then to be conveyed to the nunnery, her husband being deluded into the belief that she had miscarried.
"O-o-o-oh!" groaned Hazelton, for the rope had fallen four feet to one side of Reade, and the latter, hemmed in as he was, could not reach it. "Take your time and make a sure throw, Harry!" Tom called cheerily. Again Hazelton made a throw and failed. "Let me, have that! My head's cooler," called Foreman Payson. He made two quick, steady throws, but each shot wide of the mark.
Darrin he seized and hurled several feet into a thicket. Dalzell sought again to wind his arms around the fellow's legs, but was brushed aside as though he had been a fly. Tom Reade received a blow against his right shoulder that sent him reeling away, while Hazelton, in trying to get a new hold, was boxed over his left ear in a way that seemed to make the earth revolve about him.
It read: "The sun is now well up. I shall go at once to Hillsboro, and then my great worry will be over. Boys, you will ever be remembered in the prayers of R.H." "Now, that's mighty nice of R.H., whoever he is," smiled Harry Hazelton, not immediately connecting the initials with the name of the little, old peddler.
Nevertheless Reade did not object when Fulsbee called for volunteers. If any new firing was to be encountered it was better to risk a small force rather than a large one. Harry Hazelton was one of the six volunteers who rode out with Deputy Dave. Though they searched the country for miles they did not encounter any of the late raiders. Neither did they find any dead or wounded men.
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