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Unmindful of Fraulein's watchful eye, she leaned over and spoke to her seat-mate, Ethel Merrill. "Would you do me a favor, Ethel?" she asked. "Surely," Ethel replied. Blue Bonnet explained a bit indefinitely. It was a letter a very important one that must be mailed at noon. Ethel promised to take it without fail. Blue Bonnet got out some paper and began writing hastily.
There was the new ball which Sam Scott had given him, how Sam did love ball-playing! and which was now not of the least possible use to him. There was a great bundle of fish-hooks which Archie Phillips had bestowed upon him, more in fun than in earnest, but which Noll had treasured because Archie was his seat-mate.
"De cyar's at de do', Marsteh David, and Mistis say she plumb ready when you is, yes-sah," stammered the serving-man, holding the coat for his master; and a moment later the senator was climbing to his place behind the big wheel of the touring-car, with Mrs. Honoria for his seat-mate on the mechanician's side, and the chauffeur, the horse wrangler, and Billy Shack comfortably filling the tonneau.
Elizabeth was accustomed to being poked by Rosie, for her seat-mate always attracted one's attention this way; but her pokes were always eloquent and this one betokened alarm and urgency.
"That's all very well at home, Father dear, but I'll miss her so at school." "Of course you will; but is there any remedy?" "No, there isn't. I don't want any other seat-mate, and I don't want to sit alone." "Oh! Well, I can't see any way out of that, unless I go and sit with you." Marjorie had to laugh at this. "You couldn't squeeze in the space," she said.
Who set you boys at work on this case?" he added, in a moment, at a whisper from his seat-mate. "Ned set me at work," Jimmie answered. "Yes, but who set him at work?" "I'll tell you," Jackson said, with a smile of satisfaction on his face, "the United States government set Ned at work. You'd better watch out how you butt up against the Secret Service men."
"The lad sat there, feeling very sheepish, and as misery loves company, it was not long before he was gratified to see the door open and observe his seat-mate enter with the new teacher, who repeated the previous orders, when he quietly and with dignity withdrew.
Anthony Pye strutted to his with his usual impertinent swagger and she saw him whisper something to his seat-mate and then glance at her with a grin. Never, so it seemed to Anne, had there been so many squeaky pencils as there were that morning; and when Barbara Shaw came up to the desk with a sum she tripped over the coal scuttle with disastrous results.
Or suppose Jimmy crowds up to him a little too closely, and feeling that he can't breathe as freely as he wishes, gives him a hunch; or suppose Betty, during a temporary fit of fretfulness, induced by long setting in one posture, or overcome with the heat of a midsummer afternoon, or the sweltering temperature of a room where an old-fashioned box stove has been converted into a furnace; suppose Betty gives her seat-mate a sly pinch to make her move to a more tolerable distance, shall the teacher utter his rebuke in tones which might possibly be appropriate if a murder was about being committed?
Then he rose, thanked with stiff and formal politeness his seat-mate for his courtesy, put on his long overcoat lined with lambskin and adorned with braid, placed his lambskin cap upon his head, and so stood looking more than ever like a military man. The station platform at Winnipeg was the scene of uproar and confusion.
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