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Weren't you induced by a man named Simpson, or one named Blakeson, to make the demand of three thousand dollars' damage for your barn?" "No, it wasn't anybody of either of those names," admitted Mr. Kanker, evidently a bit put out by the question. "It was some one, though, wasn't it?" insisted Ned.
"And now," said Tom, as politely as he could under the circumstances, "I suppose we will be allowed to depart." "Yes, take your old shebang offen my property!" ordered Mr. Kanker, with no very good grace. "And if you go knocking down any more barns, I'll double the price on you!"
'But if you think my book is not worth having, why do you want it? 'To make a fire to warm myself with, Kanker replied. 'If you are cold, will not the sun warm you? asked Oscar. 'No one has been able to prove that there is any warmth in the sun, said Kanker. 'It only seems to be warm. But I know that a fire is warm, because I can burn my fingers in it.
'I don't know what you mean, said Oscar, 'and I don't care whether I exist or not, so long as I do what is right, and am happy. At this Kanker laughed, a spluttering laugh, as if he had his mouth full of water. 'Sit down here beside me, he said, 'I want to ask you some more questions. Oscar sat down beside him.
'I do not care whether you take it or not, or what becomes of it. 'You will find my arithmetic much more useful, returned Kanker. 'Come outside and see me make my fire. But Oscar turned sullenly away. Kanker went outside the cottage, with the book in his arms. After a moment, Oscar could not help going to the window to see what was being done.
I haven't seen Tom Swift since the trouble he made about my barn." "Then he hasn't been here to-day?" asked Ned. "No; and not for a good many days." Ned looked at Mr. Damon, and the two exchanged uneasy glances. Tom had certainly started for the Kanker farm, and indeed had come to within a few miles of it.
There is no such book, in the first place, and if there were, it couldn't be what you say it is. This made Oscar angry. 'There is such a book, said he, 'and if you don't believe it I can show it to you. Kanker went on laughing and wagging his great hands up and down. 'Oh! show it to me show it to me! he spluttered. 'Let me touch it with my fingers, and then perhaps I'll believe.
'I have only one book, said Oscar; and then he told what a wonderful book it was; how it could only be opened by repeating certain mystic words, and how its pages were full of living pictures, representing things which had been done in the world, and which were being done now. Kanker burst out laughing. 'I don't believe it, he said. 'It's an hallucination.
For, as Theeda stood there in the moonlight, drooping amidst her shadowy mist of hair, Kanker put out his hideous red hand, that was less like a hand than like a crab's claw, and plunging it into the water, he tried to grasp Theeda round the waist. But his fingers met together, and behold! no Theeda was there.
Damon, "and I was surprised to learn you hadn't seen Tom. There must be something wrong, I think." "I'm sure of it!" exclaimed Ned. "Let's find Mr. Swift. And what's this about his going to meet me over at the place of that farmer, Mr. Kanker, where we had the trouble about the barn Tom demolished?" "I hardly know, myself. Perhaps Mr. Swift can tell us." But Mr.
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