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Updated: May 18, 2025
"It's all right," he said; "you never saw me before in these togs fine, ain't they? But we're very late. Mr. North has offered to run me up to the course, but he's only two places. Teddy and me must be getting along but you needn't hurry. The races won't begin for hours yet. It's only about a mile a nice walk. These gentlemen will look after you.
The only thing that mystified Frank was why these people should be at Bellwood, so far away from Tipton. There was scarcely a chance in a thousand that they could have come accidentally. When the two men had pulled the blanket from Brady, he disclosed two packages in his hand, one resembling a hat box. He placed them on the floor. "Got the togs there?" inquired Jem. "Yes," nodded Brady.
Some of these guardians are in sailor togs, some in their mouldy bones, some peaceable, some noisy with threats and screams and groans a "rum lot," as an ancient mariner remarked, who lives near their graves and daytime hiding-places.
"Just your riding togs," she said, "and six suits of underwear and all the United States consular reports and two or three wash dresses and two 'good enough' dresses and a lot of quinine and a squashed hat and and " Very faintly the ghost of a smile went flickering over her lips "and whatever microscopes and specimen-cases get crowded out of Father's trunk. What's the use, Mr.
Without a cigar I'm likely to get nervous. Scraping off that beard made me forgetful. Jove! with these fleshings I feel as self-conscious as an untried chorus girl. These togs can't be very warm in winter. Ha! that must be the embassy where all those lights are; carriages. Allons!" To make positive, he stopped a pedestrian.
Thaine exclaimed dramatically, holding back the tent flaps. "I hope you are not wounded." Todd limped inside and sat down on the wet straw. "No, my company just got to camp. I was so crazy to see anybody from the short grass country that I made a slide your way too swiftly. I don't mind these clothes, for I'll be getting my soldier's togs in a minute anyhow, but I did twist that ankle in my zeal.
"It is not here," he said. "What an untidy chap he is with his togs, and how he gets them mixed! Don't want to brag; but I believe I could get anything out of my drawers with my eyes shut. Well, I suppose it was because of dad. He always used to say that a soldier's traps should be neatly packed together in the smallest space.
We're two hard-working, innocent bushies, down for an innocent spree, and we run against a cold-blooded professional sharper, a paltry sneak and a coward, who's got neither the brains nor the pluck to work in the station of life he togs himself for. He tries to do us out of our hard-earned little hundred and fifty no matter whether we had it or not and I'm obliged to take him down.
So Jack and his observer safely reached the aerodrome again, bringing back much valuable information. "Is Tom here yet?" was Jack's first inquiry after he had divested himself of his togs and men had rushed to the developing room the camera with its precious plates. "Not yet," some of his chums told him. "They're having a fight upstairs I guess."
We won't go aloft till you have got your togs; a fellow going aloft in landsmen's clothes always looks rather a duffer. Now, let us see what you know about things."
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