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Cora's voice betrayed the emotion she was feeling in spite of her outward calm. The matter was now assuming a very serious aspect. "One thing seems certain," she said to all who were listening, "they could not all have been drowned. They were all expert swimmers. Nor would they go to any merry-go-'round and leave us waiting for them. The question now is, what could have detained them?"
"We ought to have a merry-go-'round," said Bunny one day. "I'll make you one," offered Ben Hall, the strange boy, who was still working on grandpa's farm. "Oh, will you! How?" asked Bunny. Ben took some planks and nailed them together, criss-cross, like an X. Then he put them on a box, and on the ends of the planks that stuck out he fastened some wagon wheels.
All looked in the direction and again he threw the contents of the glass behind him. Then he pretended to drink, while glaring at the cadets around him. "Funny, I can't count you any more!" he muttered. "Six, seven, ten, 'leven, nine! Say, I'm all mixed up. Who put me on the merry-go-'round anyway?" He began to stagger.
"He's as odd as Mr. Damon is, when he's blessing everything," mused Tom, as he watched the man. "I thought I had a card with me, but I haven't," the visitor went on. "No matter. I'm James Period promoter of all kinds of amusement enterprises, from a merry-go-'round to a theatrical performance. I want you to " "No more going after giants," interrupted. Tom. "It's too dangerous, and I haven't time "
"What fellows?" drawled the man in answer to Ben's question. "The ones I asked you about. You said they went to the merry-go-'round. Did they?" "Yep," replied the man sententiously. "Where is that?" asked Cora, unable to restrain herself longer. "At the Peak," he said vaguely. Then he stepped into his rowboat and before anyone could question him further he was pulling up the lake.
"Well, I asked Jim Peters if he had sawed 'em, and he said but then you can't never believe Jim." "What did he say?" excitedly demanded Cora, as Bess and Belle stepped up to where she was talking. "He said they had tied their boat up at the far dock, and had gone on the shore train to the merry-go-'round." "But they were in their bathing suits!" exclaimed Cora. "There!
At first the fast motion in the balloon made him a little dizzy, just as it might make you feel queer the first time you went on a merry-go-'round. "Uff! Uff!" grunted Squinty. He was so surprised at this sudden adventure that, really, he did not know what to say. "I wonder if he's afraid?" said one of the men. "He acts so," the other answered. "But he'll get used to it.
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