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He fumbled at his hat nervously until he caught Gordon's eye and saw him smile. "Well, by the great hornspoon, Ned, you look like you've fallen into a well!" "Worse'n that, Frank; I slipped clean into hell. I got with some fellows, went on a drunk, stayed a month and lost my place. I want you to loan me money to get to Baltimore, buy a decent suit of clothes, and I'll get another position.
In the dining-room, a few minutes later, a waiter was leaning over him, and asking, for the third time, "Tea or coffee, sir, an' how'll you have your eggs?" when the inattentive guest suddenly caused him to jump as though galvanized, by bringing his fist down on the table with a crash, and exclaiming, "No, by the great hornspoon, it can't be that way either! What's that you say? Oh yes, of course.
I'll bet he's stolen a march on us and got away with the ivory," this was Billy. There was a rush for the spot in which the precious stuff had been cached. A few broken tusks lay there. But of the great hoard that the Boy Aviators had worked so faithfully to salvage not a vestige remained. "Bilked, by the great hornspoon!" yelled Ben. "But not beaten yet," was Frank's calm rejoinder.
"Do you mean to tell me you stood around and let Richard kill those princes without uttering a protest or protecting them or ringing for the police? By the great hornspoon, you must have been accessory to the fact, and you ought to be arrested and hung," and dad pounded his cane on the stone floor and looked savage.
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