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Cautiously he approached the silent figure of the old man, but just as he was on the point of stretching out a hand to grasp the man's arm the latter turned, keeping his back toward Merry, and moved along the edge of the rushing rapids. Merry refrained from touching the stranger, but followed him as the man approached Inza. Apparently the old man did not see the girl until he was right upon her.
Elsie was watching the maid, now bending over the carriage and crooning softly to the baby. "Did you ever notice how queerly Lizette does her hair, Inza?" "Yes, I've noticed," was the answer. "There are several queer things about her. Her skin is strangely dark, almost as if stained, and I know she makes up her eyebrows.
Something small and pink, in a soft white garment, nestled on her arm. It uttered a weak little cry the cry of a new life in the great seething world which was sweet music to the pale woman on the bed and the anxious man who bent over her. "Oh, Frank," murmured Inza, "he's calling to you! He knows his father has come." Merriwell kissed her lightly, softly, tenderly.
"But you, sweetheart haven't you a suggestion to make?" "If you would like me to make one." "You know I would, Inza." "Then let Hodge be his middle name. Let's call him Frank Hodge Merriwell. The initials are the same as your own. Bart will be pleased, and to me the baby will be little Frank." "Fine!" laughed Merry, in great satisfaction. "That is settled. That shall be his name.
Jist thin th' the divvil dead ur aloive walked out, pointin' av his finger at me. Oi shtarted to run away, an' thin an' thin Oi fell. Thot's all, me bhoy." Remarkable and unaccountable though it seemed, Frank came to believe, while O'Toole talked, that Del Norte still lived. That explained the kidnapping of Inza.
"What did he say to you?" "He begged my pardon and said he had not meant to alarm me. He was very courteous, just the same as Del Norte. Can he be a relative of your enemy?" "I don't think so, Inza. Where is he now?" "He left at once by the door on the opposite side." "I'd like to see him a moment," said Merriwell grimly. "Keep away from him, Frank!" implored Inza, grasping his arm.
Frank's face was pale and stern, and there was a dangerous, desperate gleam in his eyes. "You're wasting your time here, Merry," declared Bruce. "Hodge has just told me of the men who wore the wolf masks. There must have been three of them. While you were having that set-to with two of them the third carried Inza off." "But where is she?" asked Frank hoarsely. "Where did he take her?"
The night mail at Fardale was not delivered at the academy till the following morning, and Frank had come to the village post office late that afternoon to obtain an expected letter from home, if it had arrived. He had also hoped that, on his way to the post office, or in returning to the academy, he might catch a glimpse of Inza.
So, bowing and smiling, he left her, and, in her heart, Inza cried: "If he skates with her again this afternoon, I'll be outwitted that's all!" As Bart drew Frank aside, he hastily and guardedly said: "You must go into this race to win, old man. Rains' friends have been saying you would not dare skate against him, and that he would have a walk-over if you did."
"Remain here, Inza," advised Frank, being compelled to raise his voice in order to make himself understood above the roar of the water. "I'm going to step down there a little nearer. He may slip." Reluctantly she permitted him to leave her. He did not know that she followed him to the very edge of the rushing water a short distance above the falls.
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