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"Yes, but don't open your mouth, Flapp," answered the leader of the evil-doers. "Houseboat, ahoy!" was the call. "Hullo, the launch," answered Baxter. "Seen anything of any strangers within the past two hours?" "Strangers?" repeated Baxter. "Yes, I did." "Where?" "About a mile back. Two men in a small sailboat, beating up the river." "How were they dressed?" "In raincoats.
Were I a king, now, so deep in love were I with being in love, that my messengers should compass earth to fetch me the right princess. Yes, and could they not reach to her, if I but heard of one hidden and afar that was worth my loving, I would build ships and launch them, enlist crews and armies, sail all seas and challenge all wars, to win her.
Pierre to get some supplies," replied Uncle Teddy in an offhand manner. "Want any help?" asked the Captain wistfully. He was just in the mood for a ride across the lake this morning with his two adored friends. "Not at all, thank you," said Uncle Teddy, hurriedly starting the engine and backing the launch away from the shore. "You look after the camp in our absence."
On she came, with a tiny bone in her teeth; and suddenly, as Cappy peered ahead through the spray that flew in over the bows of the launch and drenched him to the skin, the Retriever's mainsail was lowered rapidly. The vessel was falling off by the time the mainsail was down and Cappy and Mr. Skinner saw Matt run aft, steady the wheel and bring the vessel up on the wind again.
He is rich and powerful, and can give her a splendid wedding, such as is suitable for the daughter of a king, and bestow an ample dower. "Then launch thy finest ship. Man it with twenty good oarsmen and put out to sea in search of thy father. Sail to Pylos first and consult with Nestor, and go to Sparta next and see Menelaos, who has returned from Troy recently.
He dreaded to think what might happen, his heart ached at the looks of gaunt suffering in the faces of all; he saw, for the first time, how black and bitter Knife-in-the-Wind looked as Silver Tassel whispered to him. With the color all gone from his cheeks, he left the post and made his way to the edge of the lake where his canoe was kept. Making it ready for the launch, he came back to the fort.
One month later the various fascist groups got enough money to launch an intensive pro-fascist drive under the usual guise of fighting Communism. José Luis Noriega, Secretary of the Nationalist Youth of Mexico, which also signed the letters to the ministers, left for the United States to organize an anti-Cardenas drive.
"That's so, but I don't like the fellow you rescued." "Why not, Hiram?" "Did you notice the way he hesitated when we asked him where he had come from?" "Yes." "And about that launch? He didn't seem to care what had become of it." "Maybe it didn't belong to him." "Well, anyway, hadn't he ought to have some concern about other folks' property?" Dave did not reply.
"She had enough starch in that outfit to defy even the Sea Crest dampness. Perhaps that was the real idea. Come on, scouts. Do you recall Neal is to take us out in his new launch?" "And did you hear he is going to call it the Treddie, after us?" added Grace. "Yes, wanted to make it True Tred, but we told him that was copyrighted," explained Julia.
Then all hurried to the deck, and in another minute the great war-ship had started eastward to welcome the troops, while the Spanish launch, which had been hastily dismissed, was heading towards Santiago Bay with every member of the party she had brought out still on board. "What is about to happen?" asked one of the Spanish officers, in bewilderment.
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