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I'll run down to the basement entry and try that." So the reporter waited while the lad did so, and presently there came a sound of eager feet within the front hall, and the door was flung wide. It was Towsley, of course, and his face was flushed with excitement and indignation, as he exclaimed: "Come right straight in. Quick's you can. She's had a terrible time, I guess, and they've done it!"
"Why, the bag they were buryin' last night." "Oh, yes." Slowly the girl's latent faculties aroused themselves. "You hurry up and dress while I go and watch," panted Ellen. "Be quick's you can, or we may miss somethin'." She went out, closing the door; but in a few moments her niece heard her shrill call: "They're comin' out with it! What'd I tell you?
Something's wrong with the boat; they're so still and Binks, what is it? Geoff ended with a shout that was almost a scream, as he clutched the old man's arm wildly. 'Come along, Muster Geoff! Binks roughly shook off the boy's hand. 'Run for your life; you're fleeter than me. Shove down our boat into the water, and I'll folly ye quick's ever I can! roared the old man.
What on earth do you mean, starting out on a bitter night like this without an overcoat or even mittens, and you with a cold like that?" "I never thought of them, I was so frightened," said David apologetically. "I just lit up a fire in the kitchen stove as quick's I could and run. It rattled me to hear Zillah moaning so's you could hear her all over the house."
That's just the sort of account to tickle the beggar. He'll go riding about the country, showing it to everybody, and wondering who wrote it. 'And what shall we send it to? the Sporting Magazine, or what? asked Sponge. 'Sporting Magazine! no, replied Jack; 'wouldn't be out till next year quick's the word in these railway times.
The hundredth skull was there, on the shelves, a bullet-hole in the forehead, and the scalp gone. The head was Quick's. Two miles south of Munger, Ohio, in the heart of what used to be called the Black Swamp, stood the Woodbury House, a roomy mansion long gone to decay.
"Oh, Walky! it can't be true!" gasped the girl, horrified. "What can't? That them old hens is sayin' sech things?" demanded the driver. "That Lottie is truly going blind?" "Dunno. She's in a bad way. Hopewell wants to send her back to Boston as quick's he can. I know that. And them sayin' that he's turned inter a reg'lar old drunk, an' sich." "What do you mean, Walky?" asked Janice, seriously.
Allen's attention to herself to avoid the betrayal of their plans which would certainly follow Rebecca's joining the conversation. "Mis' Allen," she exclaimed, excitedly, "the's just one thing to be done. Won't you run's quick's ever you can to Si Pray, an' ask him to bring his gun? You won't meet the burglar 'cause he's gone the other way. Rebecca 'nd I'll jest wait here for you an' Si.
It's made me pretty nervous and excited like, and I hope you'll excuse that; but I'm going to tell it to you the quickest way, for, 'nless I'm awful mistook, them folks'll git out quick's they find out who I be, or who I ain't, one or t'other.
Didn't you hear what they said? "Hello, fellows! How's the water? "Bully! Just right come in quick's you can!" So the new arrivals swoop down, spreading out their tails like fans, and dangling their feet under them, and settling in the centre of the crowd amid general hilarity. How long the gulls stay at their bath I do not know.
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