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"I tell you," Jane launched forth again, "that if you run about on the street, like poor children do, you'll be grabbed up by a band of kidnapers." "Are are kidnapers worse than doctors?" asked Gwendolyn. "Worse than doctors!" scoffed Thomas, "Heaps worse." "Worse than than bears?" Up and down went Jane's head solemnly. "Kidnapers carry knives big curved knives."
The wicked kidnapers took off all their captives' upper garments, leaving them nothing but their shirts and hose to cover their limbs with, and drove them in this guise through all the villages they came to. The captive girl had bruised her feet on the stony ways so that it was as much as she could do to limp painfully along.
"It's nothing that concerns you, Francis Ellison!" she began. "It's simply that I've learned how a man can treat a woman. And you you that I've known since I was a child! And telling me fairy-tales of bold kidnapers and cruel husbands and all, and I never knowing that you were going to grow up and be one!" Marjorie laughed she couldn't help it, Peggy was so severe.
He fed coins into the proper slots, took his sandwich and milk over to a seat in one corner and made himself comfortable. He flipped open the newspaper and looked at the front page. And, for a moment, his brain seemed to freeze. The story itself was straightforward enough: BENCHAIM KIDNAPERS NABBED! STAN MARTIN DOES IT AGAIN!
Jo showed the men the razor, still propped up as she had left it, held up by the sucker of the black oak. She found the remains of the lariat, too. A search failed to reveal anything beyond the razor that had been dropped by the surprised kidnapers. "Lord, be merciful unto me, a skinner!" exclaimed Heine Schultz, seating himself on a prostrate pine.
Soon the bushes that the kidnapers had brushed in their escape would be covered with drops of water again, and the tail would vanish, since the land was rocky and showed no footprints. He must keep as close to the fleeing men as possible. He knew there must be more than one to manhandle Jerkline Jo! Thus raced his thoughts as he sped on, never for an instant faltering on the trail.
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