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He was red and almost breathless in a high state of excitement, and no mistake. "What do you think, girls?" he cried, "We got a line on Purt Sweet's automobile and why he has been hiding about where it was that Saturday night the man from Alaska was hurt." "What is it? Tell us?" asked Laura. "I met Dan Smith.
Then Lucy got into bed first, leaving Berry to put out the light, and before she did so, Berry leaned over her, and eyed her roguishly, saying, "I never see ye like this, but I'm half in love with ye myself, you blushin' beauty! Sweet's your eyes, and your hair do take one so lyin' back. I'd never forgive my father if he kep me away from ye four-and-twenty hours just. Husband o' that!"
Purt set off on a run. He did not know how soon that rope might break! He reached the dock just after the girls, who had arrived breathless with laughter, and full of the tale of Purt Sweet's new friend. "Where is he?" was the chorus that welcomed Purt. "I I got rid of him," panted Purt. "Sure?" laughed Chet, as they began to cast off. "I I hope so," returned the worried Purt.
Do you charge him with disloyalty? him the hero of Quebec, of Long Island, and of Monmouth? him the very sword hand of Washington?" This flourish of rhetoric added an extra inch to the length of Jim Sweet's craned neck. "Sock it to 'em!" he tried to shout, but his phthisicky effort ended in a spell of coughing. "Order in the court!" shouted the clerk, fixing the disturber with threatening eye.
"I saw from the woman's shoes that she thought something of her feet and the way she walked and those very feet made me feel somehow she was accustomed walking on the stage. I told her about the sale at Temple & Sweet's, feeling almost sure the lure of bargain shoes would prove strong.
Prettyman Sweet's motorboat Duchess, a very nice craft, and the larger powerboat belonging to Chet Belding and Lance Darby, named Bonnie Lass, were manned by the boys before the girls appeared. These two boats were large enough to transport both parties of campers, and would likewise tow the flotilla of canoes.
The news Chet had divulged was so exciting that the girls quite forgot for the time being the wreck that Hester Grimes seemed to have made of the forthcoming performance of "The Rose Garden." Their chattering tongues mentioned Hester more than once, however, as they discussed Chet's news. Whether Purt Sweet's car had run down the man from Alaska or not, what did Hester know about it?
I said as sweet as sweet as I could coax. How sweet's that, Tom Dorgan? "Not at all." A little laugh came from Latimer as though he was enjoying a joke all by himself. But Moriway jumped with satisfaction. He knew the voice all right. "Have you a brother, may I ask?" He leaned over and looked keenly at me. "I am an orphan," I said sadly, "with no relatives." "A pitiful position," sneered Moriway.
Sweet's got to stay in bed three days too for her arm where she dislocated it jerkin' although goodness knows what she tried jerkin' for for I'd as soon think of tryin' to jerk a elephant from under a whale as to try to jerk Mrs. Macy from under a carpet. An' even with it all they could n't get her up an' had to get the blacksmith's crowbar an' pry, an' Mrs.
It wuz 'Good mornin, Peleg, ez sweet's sugar, an he didn't hev nothing tew say baout what I wuz a owin him, no; nor he didn't ass me nothin baout wy I hedn't been tew work fer him sence Tewsday." After the haw-haw over Peleg's description had subsided, he added, with a grin, "Klector Williams he hain't thort tew call baout them taxes, sence Tewsday, nuther. Hev any on ye seen nothin on him?"
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