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Master Ripper rubbed the perspiration from his face as he went on with his tale. Pike listened with all the ears he possessed and said not a word, beyond sundry rough exclamations, until the tale was done. "You awful young dog! You saw all that from the kitchen-window, and never tried to get out of it!" "I couldn't get out of it," pleaded the boy.
And he sank down, and let his hands droop between his knees. Sally read, and then suddenly turned to him. "This editorial is it's just a ripper." The author felt the thrill of a creator. She went on: "I wish every working-girl in New York could read this." "So do I." She turned and looked at him, more and more excited. "So this is what you're doing. I must pinch myself it's all a dream!
'They say the Pinkey, Starlight you know she's a ripper to fish inside of the line! got into a monstrous shoal of fresh mackerel day afore yesterday, and is now takin' on 'em like sixty, inside of the line, down north-east of us. "'Do you tell me that? That fellow Smooth at it, again, fishing inside of the line?
The waves are not so high now, and you can do it with safety." Accordingly Jerry reduced the speed of the motor. The Ripper at once began to lose headway, and Mr. De Vere, watching the oncoming tug through the binoculars, announced: "She'll be closer in a little while, and I can make out the man on deck, who seems to be directing operations." The boys anxiously waited.
De Vere hastily thrust the papers into an inner pocket of his coat. "Distribute the gold among you," he told the boys. "When we get it aboard the Ripper we can hide it. There is no telling what might happen. If that steamer " "It's the tug Monarch!" cried Jerry, who had hurried up on deck. "It's coming this way full speed!" "Then we must leave at once!" decided Mr. De Vere.
"At any rate it was not that care, Pike; I would have saved my brother's life with my own, had I been at hand to do it. As to Ripper I shall never bear to look upon him again." "He's gone away," said Pike. "Where has he gone?" "The miller turned him off for idleness, and he's gone away, nobody knows where, to get work: I don't suppose he'll ever come back again.
She spoke of Hal, and he immediately exclaimed: "Hal is a ripper, isn't she? I can't help teasing her, you know; it's the best fun in the world." "Do you usually tease your feminine friends?" she asked. "I've no doubt you have a great many." "Oh, no, I haven't. Men pals are far jollier." "Still, I expect your inches bring you many fair admirers."
"Now," said Pike, "I've come up to know about this business of Lord Hartledon's, and I will know it, or leave you as dead as he is. And I'll have you took up for murder, into the bargain," he rather illogically continued, "as an accessory to the fact." David Ripper was in a state of horror; all idea of concealment gone out of him. "I couldn't help it," he gasped.
"After all, I'm jolly glad I'm coming into your House, because the old Demon is such a ripper; and he and I have been talking things over. He's as mad keen as I am about games, and although the Manorites have not played in a cock-house match at cricket or footer for years, still there is a chance for us at Torpids next term. You'll play, Verney.
Dear me, yes, it's Nana. You can certainly recognize her by her golden color. D'you see her now? She's blazing away. Bravo, Nana! What a ripper she is! Bah, it doesn't matter a bit: she's making the running for Lusignan!" For some seconds this was everybody's opinion. But little by little the filly kept gaining and gaining, spurting hard all the while.
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