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She had the sense to choose a new house built on a totally different stratum from her old one. If one collapsed, it couldn't well jar the other." "Hold on, Whittenden!" Reed broke in, after long waiting for a pause. "I am willing to take my share of blame for most things; but I'll be " "Sh-h!" Whittenden warned him indolently. "Remember I'm a rector in good standing."
Then the door was slammed from within, and the three terrorstricken boys turned and fled as fast as their legs would carry them. Dick lay upon the floor with outthrown arms, and the figure stood over him in a listening attitude. 'Good God! 'ye you killed him? cried someone in the far corner of the room. 'Sh-h, you cursed fool! hissed the big man. 'Who is it? asked the other tremulously.
Are you getting sleepy?" called Mr. Allen as he arose to replenish the fire. Ham had sprawled out on the ground and was looking off into the dark woods, all alert. "Sh-h-, you," he whispered as he motioned them not to move. "I saw something move out there in those bushes just now; I'll bet my hat on it." "O sugar," said Phil. "Something moved, did it? What do you suppose it was, an elephant?"
Now 'fo' you start, doctor I ain't got a thing stronger 'n raspberry corjal in the house but ef you'll drink a glass o' that with me? She made this 'erself, doctor picked the berries an' all an' I raised the little sugar thet's in it. Well, good-night, doctor! To-morrer, shore! Sh-h! How that do'-latch does click! Thess like thunder! Sh-h!
"Bertram, I couldn't have chosen a better play if I'd tried. There are five acts! I'd forgotten there were so many. That means you can telephone four times!" "Yes, dear." Bertram's voice was sternly cheerful. "You must be sure they tell you exactly how Baby is." "All right, dear. Sh-h! Here's Romeo." Billy subsided. She even clapped a little in spasmodic enthusiasm.
But at last she reached the room and walked in with a backward slam of the door. Agnes was putting the final touches to the water-color drawing of exquisite fungi before her. "Sh-h," she murmured, "don't interrupt. Just one more stroke and another now this tiny one. There, it is finished. Professor Stratton sends her manuscript off to-day and she is waiting for this. Think of it!
"You laughed at me for always gettin' sooveneerrs; now you see What you want it for?" "Sh-h. How many barbs has it?" asked Tom in a cautious whisper. "Three." "Let's have it; give me a couple o' matches, too." Holding a lighted match under the place where he thought the iron padlock band must be, he scrutinized the under side of the door for any sign of it.
And if you had been the wrong kind of a man " "Sh-h! Don't say things like that." "But it's so. And you helped me to get over it. Before I was married I used to dream of a man like you. But what chance had I in the dance-halls along the water-front and my people dead? And he was a dance-hall hero, the kind girls used to write notes to.
"Who got it?" he demanded. "Who d'you mean by 'they'?" "'Sh-h!" Slevin was panic-stricken; he flung out a nervous, jerky hand. "Mebbe they're here now. Look out!" "Who d'you mean by 'they'?" the larger man repeated. "I God! I dunno! But there must 'a' been more'n one. Five hundred pounds! One man couldn't pack it!" "You said 'they'!" Berg persisted in an odd tone.
"Sure," agreed Leslie, raising his hand in warning. "Sh-h! They're coming out." The next moment Gertrude and her father joined the men, and after a few words with them stood still, listening. A long bluff, through which the trail from the settlement led, ran close up to the homestead, cutting against the pale green glow of the sky.
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