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For most of that afternoon they paddled steadily up the brown river, the savages singing from time to time an unending sort of chant, that sounded like nothing so much as a continuous repetition of: "I-told-you-so. I-told-you-so. I told-YOU-SO." "Hum," commented Billy, "if anyone had told me so I'd have stayed in New York."

Belding spread wide his big arms, and when one of them dropped round Nell, who sat beside him, she squeezed his hand tight. "Sure, it's the regular thing," he concluded, cheerfully. He rather felt a little glee at Mr. Gale's distress, and Mrs. Gale's crushed I-told-you-so woe in no wise bothered him; but the look in the big, dark eyes of Dick's sister was too much for Belding.

The Princess and the Chevalier had disappeared, and with them Alaster McFeckless, Lady Fitz-Fulke, the doctor, and even his dahabiyeh! A thousand rumors had been in circulation. Sir Midas Pyle looked up from the "Times" with his usual I-told-you-so expression. "It is the most extraordinary thing, don'tcherknow," said Fitz-Fulke. "It seems that Dr.

'I'm nearly done; these two are seated in the bow window of a well-known club. 'You don't mean it, what! replies Helmdon, better known as Chubby. 'I do, all the same, says Jimmy, testily, 'heat, money, everything, in fact! 'That comes of racing, my good boy, this from Chubby, in a sort of I-told-you-so tone.

In the hall the amazed crowd lingered, and the correspondents, not less surprised than the people, gathered in a group to talk it over. Sylvia was there, too, and she was almost in tears. To none had the blow been harder than to her, and she was so stunned that she could yet scarcely credit it. All of the group were sad except Churchill, who felt all the glory of an I-told-you-so come to judgment.

Meanwhile Marvin had settled his wager at the village soda fountain and had listened with commendable patience to Tracey's "I-told-you-so" remarks. All that Marvin said was, when Tracey had rubbed it in sufficiently: "There's just one thing you want to do, Tracey, and that is get a date with those guys for next year.

Reed listened to it all, in perfect silence. When Olive had finished, "Poor old Brenton!" he said slowly. "It was a conjugal I-told-you-so, coming back to him as a message out of the misty borderland he's tried so hard to penetrate." Later, that same day, Olive dropped in on Reed again.

"You would think any one who could play the way he can would hate to bury himself in the wilderness. Unless " she paused, and Mollie jumped joyfully into the opening. "Unless there is some reason why he has to," said the latter, adding with an I-told-you-so air, "I thought there was some mystery about that man, and now you are beginning to think so yourselves.

Parson Weaver sat in the postoffice, reading a "daily" that had just arrived, when a boy came in, and not noticing the Elder, began to tell the tale to the knot of men who stood about. They heard the story through, with many "I-told-you-so" nods, and then, one by one, slipped out of the office. Last of all Parson Weaver went also. He went straight to Mr.

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