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Updated: May 24, 2025
I noted that the diamond had disappeared from his finger and his curly head looked as if it had been held under a water-faucet and vigorously toweled to lessen the brilliantine gloss. "If you'll tell us where your farm is, Mr. Locke, we'll start," he volunteered. Phillida looked up at him with eyes of adoring trust. "I had the porter at the Terminal check my suitcase to be called for.
He was still trying when the call of time sounded. "You didn't half go in after him, Dan," murmured Dave, as the latter and Rollins quickly toweled their man in the corner. "If I had, I might have gotten more of him than I wanted," muttered Dalzell. "Why don't you mix it up faster?" queried Rollins. "Because," proclaimed Midshipman Dan, "I don't want to fight or get hurt.
He used to come and see us at Passy; and monsieur even had some traffic with him in a little matter of two chickens." "Father Joliet!" I cried. "Present!" shouted the personage thus designated at my appeal to his name. I turned round, toweled, and he grasped my hands.
Robert's clothes had been well patched, his face had been washed and toweled till it shone, his eyes sparkled with excitement, and his heart beat high; yet he was nervous and awed, wondering what he would find there. "By crikey," said wee Alec Johnstone to him, "wait till auld Clapper gie's ye a biff or twa wi' his muckle tawse. Do ye ken what he does to mak' them nippy?
Soames perceived that he was to be treated to something in the nature of a shampoo; for Said had ranged a number of bottles, a cake of soap, and several towels, along a shelf over the bath. In a curious state of passivity, Soames submitted to the operation. His hair was vigorously toweled, then fanned in the most approved fashion; but this was no more than the beginning of the operation.
For a moment the two stood grinning at each other and listening to the heavy drumming of the rain on the cabin top, then Rick spoke. "We'd better get out of these wet clothes so we can sit down. This may last for an hour or so." Scotty agreed. "First one into dry shorts makes the coffee." "That's me," Rick said. He stripped off the soaking clothes, toweled quickly, and put on dry shorts.
Bud did not say anything, but he reached for the bottle, tilted it and swallowed three times before he stopped. "Gee!" whispered Frank, a little enviously. Bud glanced somberly across at Frank, who was sitting by the stove with his jaws between his palms and his hair toweled, regarding his guest speculatively. "I'm going to get drunk again," Bud announced bluntly.
Only when he was sure he had washed off the last of the clinging mud did he pull himself up to the houseboat cockpit, Scotty following. They toweled and put on clean clothes, then carried the equipment back to the farmhouse. Two bottles of Coke apiece from the refrigerator had them feeling normal again. Over the last one, they studied the photos.
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