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S-sh!" cautioned Uncle Larry but not quickly enough, for Aunt Kate's voice was shrill and excited and Mary Rose in her little room heard every word. She stood and looked about her bewildered. It wasn't possible that anyone, even the owner of the Washington, would take her Uncle Larry's work from him just because a little girl was living with him?
"Suppose the wild cat had got me, she'd be sorry when she comes, wouldn't she?" There was no reply yet, save by gesture, the language of primitive man; but the big body shivered a little, and the uncouth hand felt for a place in the bed where the lad's knee made a lump under the robe. He felt the little heap tenderly, but the child winced. "S-sh, but that hurts!
Here the first watchman was picked up, standing on the high crest beside a tree and calling attention by a shrill whistle. "How long since the launch passed?" queried the skipper, when the man came aboard. "S-sh! She no go far, sar," replied the man, with a gesture of caution.
It was a woman's voice, soft, sibilant, hushed, and the frozen grip of fear was broken. She was trembling now uncontrollably. "Who is there?" "S-sh!" came the warning response, and then, her eyes staring into the shadowy recess, she saw the curtains at the back side of the bed were parting as a figure appeared between them.
Hush, Rip! S-sh!" "Val, turn on the light, quick! You're nearest to it." Valentine stretched out his hand hastily, and in a flash the room sprang into view. He was right. Rip was crouched his front legs extended along the floor, his hind legs standing almost straight close to the door, and facing it full.
"If you won't be my aunt, then you'll have to be my cousin." "S-sh!" whispers Fruen. "Can't you get rid of that man there?" Whereupon the engineer comes up to me with the luggage receipt in his hand, and in his lordliest manner, as an Inspector of Waterways addressing a gang of lumbermen, he says: "Bring this along to the hotel." "Very good," I answered, touching my cap.
"Lay off there," he murmured indignantly. "S-sh," cautioned Bob, for by this time the doctor had made another adjustment. Then into the room burst the stirring strains of the "Stars and Stripes Forever" played by a band that had a national reputation.
"Well, if they have the nerve to fire you just because you're givin' a home to an orphan niece I hope Mr. Strahan writes it all over the front of his paper. I'd like to see it in big red letters an' then maybe the owner an' Mr. Wells'd be ashamed of themselves." "S-sh!
'But it sounds like they was sayin' something nasty, an' meanin' it all. But one word, shouted fiercely and lustily, caught Private Robinson's ear. ''Ark! he said in eager anticipation. 'I do believe it's s-sh! There! triumphantly, as again the word rang out the one word at the end of the verse . . . 'England. 'It's it. It's the "'Ymn of 'Ate"!
Vot's more, they must come as far as this passage or else drownd theirselves in the River, vich vould save a lot o' trouble and expense, and s-sh!" He broke off abruptly and rose to his feet, and Barnahas saw that he held the brass-bound pistol in his hand.
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