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"Our soda's so strong, you know," he apologised. "But if you'll stay where you are, I'll try again." Warned by experience, he worked at the machine gingerly, finally producing a thin, spluttering trickle. Beaming with triumph, he looked up. "I think it's safe now," he suggested; "I seem to have it under control."
The councillors were all loud in their praises of Itô Sôda's behaviour, and ordered him to keep watch again that night. At the same hour, the false O Toyo came and looked all round the room, and all the guard were asleep, excepting Itô Sôda, who was wide awake; and so, being again frustrated, she returned to her own apartments.
"That's as bad as what Helen insisted they sang last Christmas, in the infant class, something about 'Christmas soda's on the breeze! I don't know what she means," said Cricket, forgetting that Billy would not understand. It was such a relief when any one else, even old Billy, mispronounced words, and thus gave her a chance to laugh at them.
Betty telegraphed this question to her friends with her eyes. "Take the goods the gods provide," murmured Grace. "I can save my quarter for another time." With a rather resigned air Betty followed her chums into the drug store and presently all were lined up before the marble-topped counter. "The soda's delicious to-day," murmured Grace.
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