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"Rats!" remarked Spike. But he shifted the course, just the same. We drew away from the strange yacht for about three minutes, and then, "Sh-She's c-coming about!" shouted Spook. She certainly was coming about. In a few seconds she was headed for us once again. "I d-don't know about you f-fellows, b-but I'll never b-be t-taken alive.
To the westward beyond the smashed Council House were the voluminous offices of municipal control and government; and to the eastward, towards the port, the trading quarters, the huge public markets, the theatres, houses of resort, betting palaces, miles of billiard saloons, baseball and football circuses, wild beast rings and the innumerable temples of the Christian and quasi-Christian sects, the Mahomedans, Buddhists, Gnostics, Spook Worshippers, the Incubus Worshippers, the Furniture Worshippers, and so forth; and to the south again a vast manufacture of textiles, pickles, wines and condiments.
"Well, never you mind now; I'm glad we all understand one another here at any rate," answered Mrs. Miller, earnestly. "Now let us have peace and a truce to the spook story. Mrs. Taylor, now won't you sing?" "Really, Mrs. Miller, I ought not to stay another moment.
It was a nervous, irritated laugh, and was matched by the altered voice in which its owner presently remarked: "If I can't stop this fool business any other way, I've a notion to ride round the country and shoot right and left, everybody I see, promiscuous. That's the sure and certain way to hit the spook, too." "Heigho! This grows exciting! Spooks? Mysteries? Mail robberies! What next?"
This was the way dear old Pedro used to ride; and this is the way your 'spook' sat his horse," she announced, so vividly mimicking both men that all who had known them recognized the likeness, and Ephraim exclaimed: "That's them to a t-i-o-n-tion! Can seem to see 'em right here before me. Well what next?" "Pedro wore his blanket like a king.
"Even suspicion," replied Jane, "but my chief concern would be to find the way friend spook gets up into that attic and where he comes from. Good night, Miss Gifford, we will follow the freshies now, and I'm so sleepy it would take more noise than that first bombardment made to arouse me." "Good night, my dears, and thank you so much for your wonderful support," said Miss Gifford.
One of the most curious characteristics of this well-meaning spook was that it had no face or at least that nobody ever saw its face." "Perhaps he kept his countenance veiled?" queried the Duchess, who was beginning to remember that she never did like ghost stories. "That was what I was never able to find out.
I had had a glimpse through the spy- glass, and thought I recognized Mr. Snider. We hauled the tender alongside, and Spook got in it to begin the towing. Just as he did so, and as I was standing outside the cock-pit, there came a sound above my head as if the air had been split open. "Wh-wh-whi-i-i-i-ing whip!" The sail of the "Hoppergrass" shivered and the halliards rattled.
"We ain' gwine ter dat ar spook place, no mattah w'at you do to us." "Perkins, what IS the matter?" Mr. Baron was heard shouting from the house. "Reckon you better come out yere, sir." "Are the hands making trouble?" "No sir, sump'n quar's gwine on, what we kyant mek out yit." Mr.
But the noise had made her nervous, and when, suddenly, at her feet, on the very doorstep, she saw something white lying there a letter evidently she hardly dared touch it. It seemed so ghostlike. It certainly was not there when she came upstairs; had Louise dropped it? or was some tantalising spook at play, showing her fairy letters where none existed?
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