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He shook hands with both boys, pulled his boat alongside, and stepped aboard. In a short time, he was running the crab lines again. "Interesting," Rick said noncommittally. Scotty chuckled. "Here we go again. Sherlock Brant's got his teeth into a nice fat mystery. Good-by vacation." Rick had to grin. "It's not that bad," he said defensively. "I just thought we might sniff around a little."
"I suppose," she replied, at length, slowly, and looking at us as if she would bore right through into our minds, "I suppose you mean the schemes of Mr. Lockwood and Mr. Whitney." Kennedy was not to be taken by surprise. "I have heard of their schemes, too," he replied noncommittally. "Peru seems to be a veritable storehouse of tales of buried treasure."
"I've got something to show you," he said. A great thought made her sit up in the chair; but she was afraid just then to stand up. "I know. The posse has reached that silly boy and brought him back. But I don't want to see him again. Handcuffed, and all that." "The posse is here, at least," said Charles noncommittally. She was finding something new in him.
"That remains to be seen," he replied, noncommittally. "Just now the thing that interests me most is what I can accomplish at the laboratory in the way of finding out what is the matter with Mansfield."
"Why don't ye try yore own hand at him jest fer ther fun of ther thing?" He pointed to a dead tree-top perhaps ten yards more distant than his own target had been, where hung one of those great ivory-billed woodpeckers that are near extinction now except in the solitudes of these wild hills. Maggard smiled again, as he shook his head noncommittally yet he reached for the rifle.
"I told you I cared for a woman, but that there was another man. Now I've just been told she has no idea of accepting the other man. In spite of all he has to offer, she isn't going to marry him." His face was at once ecstatic and tortured. "Why won't you marry the other man, Sophy?" "Because of a dream I dreamed, when I was sick," I said noncommittally. "Ah!
Then, as my question did not evidently accord with what was in his mind, he answered at random, "Perhaps- -I wonder if " and then he stopped, noncommittally. Suddenly he jumped up, bringing his tightly clenched fist down with a loud clap into the palm of his hand. "By heaven!" he exclaimed, "I I will!"
Together we hurried the books into the new white shelves which awaited them, the order in which they stood being of no matter so long as they were off the floor. "Did you write this one, sir?" he asked. I admitted it. "H'm," he said noncommittally. He glanced along the names of every armful after that, and appeared a little surprised at the number of books which I hadn't written.
Gale obtained you the place?" "Yes, sir." "I am not sure that you are acting wisely. I doubt if you can make expenses. What are you to be paid?" "Five dollars a week." "That is very fair pay for a boy of your age, but it won't go very far in New York." "I suppose New York is an expensive place to live in," said Andy, noncommittally. "Yes. You will have to pay all your wages for board.
"You can guess why I'm calling, Tom," the editor said. "How about a statement from you Swifts on this Brungarian sub story?" "We found it very interesting," Tom said politely but noncommittally. Parrying further questions, he hung up as soon as possible. Mr. Swift approved Tom's policy of silence.
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