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"Why, there's Alice Jallow in that boat!" exclaimed Betty. "Did you see, girls?" "Sure enough! So it was!" agreed Mollie. "But who is that fellow with her?" "Harry Brook," answered Will. "Do you know him?" demanded Grace, quickly. "A little. He's a new lad in town." "Has he been going with her long?" asked Betty. "I don't know. First time I ever saw him with her.
"We didn't cut any trees on this strip for some years, and here this Fall, when we started in on it, Jallow stopped us by an injunction from the court." "By what right?" asked Betty. "Why, he claimed that valuable strip was his. I contested, of course, but it seems that there was a mix-up in the landmarks.
Mollie's skate again becoming loosened, she halted to adjust it, her friends waiting for her. It was thus that they overheard what Alice Jallow was saying to Margaret Black, the girl who had just come up. "Yes," Alice spoke, "she gives herself as many airs as if she was somebody, instead of a nobody." "A nobody?" repeated Margaret, wonderingly, "why " "Yes, indeed!
"What do you suppose your father will do?" asked Mollie of Grace, as they rode along in the big sled, for, out of consideration of Paddy's leg, they rode instead of walked. "I don't know," was the answer. "But I guess daddy has his plans all made." "I just hope that Alice Jallow sees how we come out ahead!" went on Mollie, half-vindictively. "Mollie!" reproached Betty, gently. "I don't care.
Jallow you'll be sorry for it," said the guard. "Now you'd better go. My dog is getting uneasy." "He'd better not get too uneasy," remarked Frank significantly. "Come on, girls," and the girls, who had been getting more and more nervous as the talk proceeded, were glad enough to precede the boys off the disputed territory.
Oh, dear!" "Betty, this is a friend of mine, Jack Sanford," Frank introduced him in his own pleasant way. "He's not such a bad chap when you get to know him well," he added, while his friend thanked him, ironically. Betty acknowledged the introduction gaily. If Allen liked "this Jallow girl," why, he could, that was all! and she was not going to let them spoil the evening for her.
Alice Jallow laughed. "We didn't think we'd get game so soon; did we, Jake?" asked Sam, with a grin. "I'll teach you to make game of us!" cried Will as he strode forward. Probably the snowball was not meant for him, but one thrown at that moment by Jake struck Will full in the face. Alice Jallow screamed, and in this was joined by Kittie Rossmore. Then both girls turned and fled.
"Oh, I do hope we don't get into any trouble with them." "It will have to be of their making," said Grace firmly. "I'll never set foot on that land Mr. Jallow claims if I can help it. It might complicate legal matters." "That is a wise decision," said Allen, viewing it from a lawyer's standpoint. "Let the trespass come from them, if there is to be any."
"Not much!" cried Paddy. "He's very much alive, and I've got a letter from him in my pocket now, saying he'll come on any time he's wanted and testify as to the right boundaries." Mr. Jallow stood with open mouth. As the saying goes, all the wind had been taken out of his sails. "I guess you had better give up, Mr. Jallow," said the court officer.
"You don't have to let us. We'll do it without, Hank!" spoke Paddy, suddenly. At the sound of his voice for up to now Hank had not seen the lumberman the burly guard started slightly. "Paddy Malone!" he gasped. "You back!" "Yes, and I guess Jallow won't be any more glad to see me than you are," was the grim comment. There was no further hindrance to their progress.
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