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"I'm from the court, and I have authority in this matter that goes above even Jallow's." "All I know is that my orders is not to let any one on here exceptin' Mr. Jallow's men," growled Hank. "Where is Mr. Jallow?" asked Mr. Ford. "Over there," and Hank pointed. "Then we'll settle with him. Drive on, Ted." "I don't see how I kin let ye!" whined Hank. He had lost much of his bluster now.
It was that horrid Alice Jallow making slurring remarks about Amy. We won't take any notice of her after this. Oh, how mean she is!" Briefly, she told Will what had happened. "That accounts for it," he said. "Poor Amy! No wonder she didn't look where she was going. She might have been drowned." "Don't say that!" cried Betty, sharply. "Why not, when it's the truth?" Betty gave the woman's reason.
Then when the rain came I would get calm again. I remarked that Amy did not seem quite herself while reciting, and perhaps I should have excused her, but I hoped, by letting her fix her attention on the lesson, that the little spell might pass over." "It was that horrid Alice Jallow giggling at her!" declared Mollie, who had come softly into the room.
I am sure the landmarks were changed if not by Jallow, by some one interested with him. The strip they claim, and which I say is mine, is the most valuable in the woods. I wish I could establish title to it, but unless I can find Paddy, or some of his friends, I'm afraid I'll have to lose. "That is the complication I spoke of.
I saw the right marks put, but they were shifted, and I'm ready to testify that you paid me to keep out of the country while you changed 'em." "That isn't so!" stormed Jallow. "Who would believe you?" but he paled, and was obviously ill at ease. "I guess they'll believe me when Mr. Ford and Dick Norbury testify to the same thing," said Paddy, coolly. "Dick Norbury why, he's dead!" gasped Jallow.
Regarding the disputed claim, Mr. Jallow appeared to have matters in his favor. His men continued to cut the choice timber despite the protest of Mr. Ford, who was in despair at his inability to prove what he believed to be his right. Alice Jallow and her friends remained in their winter cabin, but our friends saw little of them.
"She was a real outdoor girl, too," observed Mollie, reflectively. Carrie, however, who figured largely in the third book of this series, had gone, as has been said, to live with a distant relative. Occasionally she wrote to her young friends. The girls had gone about a mile, or perhaps two, from their camp, and were nearing the debatable ground where Mr. Jallow claimed a valuable strip of timber.
"The sight of your pretty faces is enough," he replied gallantly, and with just the trace of a brogue. He smiled genially, bowed again and tramped off through the snow. "How odd!" exclaimed Grace. "Maybe he's one of the Jallow lumbermen, and didn't want it known that he had done the Ford family a favor," suggested Will. "Silly!" remarked his sister.
She turned aside and Betty made as though to skate after her, intending to offer words of sympathy, but this time Mollie shook her head. "Perhaps she had better be alone for a little while," she whispered. "Sometimes that is the best way to pass it off. Oh, but that Alice Jallow is a cat!" No one disagreed with Mollie this time. Tears blinded the eyes of poor Amy.
"We can't raise the door." "By hemlock!" exclaimed one of the lumbermen who overheard the talk. "It must be the trap I set for that young fellow over at the Jallow cabin." "Did you set one for him?" asked Will, quickly. "Yes, and I told him at the time it was a piece of foolishness. There's no bears around now, anyhow, and I said some one might get in it by mistake and be caught.
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