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"Ain't no use to try to follow him," said Aaron Masterson. "The road branches off four times between here an' town an' there ain't no tellin' wot road he tuk. More'n likely he's travelin' as fast as all git-out, too." "He certainly will do his level best to get away after such experiences as he has had," answered Snap. "Perhaps he will never show himself in this locality again."
"You followed us here to try to cut out some ground from under our feet, Masterson," he said, "and you know you told me in Nestorville you wanted to get even with me." "Don't rub it in, Chadwick," said the humbled Masterson. "I'll do anything you say if you'll only get us out of this terrible place. I can hardly walk, and my hands feel as if they'd been burned in a fire."
"I suppose Giant and Whopper are wondering what has become of us," said Snap. They came to a rest in the shelter of some pine trees and ate a lunch Mrs. Masterson had prepared for them, in the meantime keeping warm by a fire they built of tree branches. The rest occupied half an hour and then they went on as before. "Wonder what the boys are doing?" said Snap, as they reached Firefly Lake.
They wielded their shovels frantically. "And we can't stop them," groaned Dick. "Wait a minute," said the professor. They continued to watch, and before many minutes had passed they saw Sam Higgins lay down his shovel with a grunt. "Go on and dig," ordered Masterson. "Yes, hurry up, we haven't got all night," urged Eph. Sam made a few more feeble movements and then quit.
"Well, you'll get a chance before long," declared Bill Masterson. "I don't see that there's any use in hanging around here any longer," he went on. "The thing to do now is to get our boats and go down the river." "Won't they be astonished when they see us," said Eph. "Maybe they'll try to chase us away. They outnumber us," said the timid Sam. "They'd better not," vaunted Bill Masterson.
I readily surmised that not the dream, but something else, perhaps some recollection which it recalled, worried her. By careful questioning I discovered that it was a broken engagement." "Yes," prompted Kennedy. "The bull-serpent, she admitted, had a half-human face the face of Arnold Masterson!" Was Dr. Ross desperately shifting suspicion from himself? I asked.
"That's the stuff!" exclaimed Fenn Masterson. "I knew you could do it, Ned!" "That's more than I knew myself," Ned answered, panting from his home run. "Three cheers for the Darewells!" called the captain of the preparatory school nine. The tribute to victory was paid with a will. "Three cheers for the Lakevilles!" shouted Lem Gordon, pitcher on the High School team.
He spoke to Lord Hastings. "What shall we do with them?" he asked. "That, colonel, is for you to decide," was Lord Hastings' reply. "Do you think it necessary to call a court martial?" continued the colonel. "In view of the evidence we have, I should say not," returned Lord Hastings. "And still," said Colonel Masterson, half to himself, "it seems to me that every man should be given a chance."
But when young Donovan came to High Towers, he was not aware that he was followed by Bill Masterson, who, as we know, was the son of the proprietor of the Boston Moon, on which paper young Masterson also worked as a reporter.
The few things missing were of scant importance. "I'll wager that scamp intended to take the things somewhere and sell them," said Snap. "We were lucky to catch him as we did." Having looked the load over, they repacked it with care and then looked around them, to find out their exact location. "There is a farmer named Masterson, who lives just beyond this woods," said Snap.
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