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"Can't we do something here have some game or other?" suggested Miss Crilly. "I say!" burst out David, "I forgot! Mother told me to be at home by half-past three, and it's almost that now. Will you come, Leonora, or wait for the shower to be over?" Leonora preferred a walk in the rain to one alone, so they hurried into their raincoats and were off.
I want to be able to read it in future years." In what remained of another village not far distant from Neuvilly, the lassies had a tent erected. The rain was endless a driving drizzle which quickly soaked through everything but the staunchest raincoats in a very few moments. The ground was so thickly covered by shell craters that they could find no clear space wide enough for the tent.
Dan Baxter and Lew Flapp were also scared, and rushed toward the gasolene launch, not knowing what to do. "Keep off!" "Don't sink us!" Loud cries also came from the launch, and those on the deck of the Dora could see several men, wearing raincoats, moving about. The bow of the launch was badly splintered, but otherwise the craft remained undamaged.
The girl almost laughed at the earnestness of his question, following, as it did, upon his urgent signal for silence. "Why," she answered, amusedly, "it doesn't lead anywhere. It's the door of a clothes closet. We keep our gardening suits and our raincoats and such things in there. Why do you ask?"
He was drenched; the raincoats protected her as she crouched back into the most remote corner. Looking about he discovered a small door leading to the cellar. It opened the instant he touched the latch. "Come, quick," he cried, lifting her to her feet. "In here stoop! I have the light. This is the cellar.
"Yes, but don't open your mouth, Flapp," answered the leader of the evil-doers. "Houseboat, ahoy!" was the call. "Hullo, the launch," answered Baxter. "Seen anything of any strangers within the past two hours?" "Strangers?" repeated Baxter. "Yes, I did." "Where?" "About a mile back. Two men in a small sailboat, beating up the river." "How were they dressed?" "In raincoats.
The more kind-hearted of them, inspired by the dauntless pickets in the midst of a now freezing temperature, brought mittens, fur pieces, golashes, wool -lined raincoats: hot bricks to stand on, coffee in thermos bottles and what not. Meanwhile the pickets became a household word in Washington, and very soon were the subject of animated conversation in practically every corner of the nation.
With very few further words, the two men took possession of raincoats, rubbers, and umbrellas belonging to their unknown hosts, and went out through the open, broken window into the night. It was still raining, but not so hard, and Bill called back cheerily, "Good-night, ladies," as they tramped away. "It's awful," Daisy whimpered, "to leave us two girls here alone and unprotected!
Some carried their bathing suits in bundles, some wore them under raincoats or dressing gowns, and some walked boldly along bare-armed and bare-legged in the suits themselves. It was a gay scene, with touches of color in every direction. Vivid green grass in all the door-yards, masses of roses and hollyhocks and clematis against the clean white of the houses.
They were practically worthless, as I know from personal experience, and were as hard as leather after one or two days' use. Despite the rubber shortage, the Lower Saxon Rubber Company, of Hildersheim, does a thriving business in raincoats made from rubber substitutes.
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