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"Let down shlip-rail th-there's good lad," added his master. "It's down," replied the other shortly. "Tchick tchick, Roderick," cried Frank, almost tumbling over his horse's head. At last they reached the house door. Mrs Watson came out, candle in hand. "How are you, Mrs Watson?" hiccupped her master.
Man! you look as if you'd seen a ghost!" Then his own face blanched, as the shivering George bubbled incoherently, "B-b-body! b-b-body! My God, Yorkey! th-there's a s-s-stiff d-down th-there! Ugh! I d-d-dived right onto it!" For a brief space they remained staring at each other; then, a strange light of understanding broke over Yorke's face, and he made a snatch at Redmond's clothes.
"Why?" "Well a no woman ever goes to help to find an Orange Grove. Th-there's a law against it." "Heh? Law?" Alas! she knew too little to be impressed by the Majesty invoked. "You see, women, they they come by-and-by when the Orange Grove's all all ready for 'em. No man ever takes a woman on that kind of hunt." Her saddened face was very grave. The Boy took heart.
"Th-There's b-b-battle, m-murder, and s-s-sudden d-death g-g- going on for us, at B-Bailey's Harbor. And l-l-look! B-By J-J-J- Jiminy Kuk-Kuk-Crickets! There's another b-boat!" "Oh, they're all probably pleasure boats, like this one." "D-D-Do you c-c-call this a p-p-pleasure b-boat? S-Seems to m-me the 'H-Hoppergrass' is b-becoming a b-b-burden, like the one in the B-Bible."
"Th-there's the engine whistle," she said unsteadily. "Engine whistle be hanged!" cried Allen explosively. "Betty, I want you to look at me." Then, as she still turned from him, he deliberately put a hand beneath her chin and turned her face to meet his. "Betty, little Betty," he cried tenderly, seeing that her eyes were wet with tears, "do you care as much as that? Little girl "
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