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Updated: June 2, 2025
"You two-legged Gatling gun!" howled the fellow, shaking with rage and pain. He halted, shaking his fist in the direction from which the stones had come. Another lot of stones flew toward him. The prowler waited no longer, but turned, making for Gage's camp as fast as he could go. "That ought to hold those rascals for a little while," speculated Harry. "But, of course, there'll be a come-back.
"But I want to talk with you, my friend," Dick insisted. "I don't want to talk with you," snapped the prowler. "You would, if you knew what I want to talk with you about," Prescott continued. "Is it about food?" demanded the young stranger grimly. "Then it's about jail," sneered the other harshly. "Why about jail?" asked Dick. "Because that's where you'd like to see me!"
Yet, all the time they were eating and chattering -and Dick did his full share of both that young man, Prescott, was also busily thinking up plans by means of which he hoped to be able to gain a closer view of the recent prowler.
In that case he might more speedily have detected the wriggling, snake-like movement of the big negro moving toward him. With great caution the huge prowler came onward, raising his head a few inches every now and then and listening. The black man's nostrils moved feverishly. He was using them, as a dog would have done, to scent any signs of alarm on the part of the human quarry that he was after.
Boddy, you were right, he cried, 'I find him a prowler, breaking all rules of discipline. A perverted, impudent rascal! An example shall be set to my school, sir. We have been falling lax. What! I find the puppy in my garden whistling he confesses for one of my servants here, Mr. Boddy, if you please.
Tom was sure it was a large beast on the prowl for food, and he decided that he could not waste time hiding, or risk being injured in a battle with the jungle prowler. He quickly broke to his right and raced through the jungle. Behind him, the beast picked up the chase, the ground trembling with its approach. It began to gain on him. Tom was suddenly conscious of having lost his bearings.
Though the door leading from the verandah into the reception hall swung wide to the balmy airs of late Spring the prowler passed this blatant invitation to the hospitality of the House of Prim.
The Pirattery, so the children were informed by Growler and Prowler, was an assembly hall or general meeting-place for the pirates when on shore. Its floor and the little platform at one end were strewn with rat-skin rugs of the finest quality, and its walls were adorned with handsomely stuffed and mounted mouse and fish heads, snake skins, and other trophies of the chase.
*What of her family?* Valla asked. *They are oathbound. Disregard them.* *Yes, Master Thark. Are there further instructions?* *No.* Thark broke the contact, then made three more briefer ones before his general broadcast to the off-planet Crusade leaders. Once they had been informed of the accelerated schedule, he was free to leave for his private spacefield and the Prowler.
If some garrison prowler were the cause, he had doubtless by this time taken alarm and slipped away; if Captain Devers or any of his household were the "power behind," then it was none of Davies's business. Hurrying up the creaking, snapping steps of the hospital, they found the office-door locked. "I more than suspected you would need me," said Davies. "Will you wait one moment?"
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