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"Judge Taylor's office was robbed last night," repeated Jack, enjoying the sensation his news had made. "W-w-what!" stammered Pepper. "Who did it?" "That's what we all want to know," answered Jack. "What did they get?" asked Donald. "How did they get in?" went on Pepper. "One at a time, boys," put in Rand. "Come, Jack, tell us the whole story."
Yet also a boy who was a gentleman by birth; so that, while his first impulse was to run away, his second was to offer such comfort as he could. "W-w-what you cryin' for, a-a-anyway? I-I-I'm all right, I guess." "Well, if you are, I'm not. I'm just as anxious to go home as you are, only how can I? I don't know the way, and I'm afraid. I'm afraid of everything!
Then at parting he said he would come to-morrow, and ask you for my hand; but I must intercede with you first, or you would be sure to say 'No. So I declined to interfere: 'W-w-what was it to me? I said. Oh! oh! oh! oh! What could I do? And then, you know, I wanted to get away from him. So I am afraid I did just say 'Yes. But only in a whisper.
"W-w-what were you g-g-g-oing to have for b-b-b-breakfast in your m-m-mess?" he was asking his companion in misfortune. Hang it all, a fellow of fifteen had to show somehow he wasn't afraid of dying. "Kippers," replied the Chief Stoker, recognising his part and playing up to it manfully. "I'm partial to a kipper, meself an' fat 'am. . . ."
She had been witness of his degradation, had seen him show the white feather. A pulse of shame beat in his throat. "W-w-what are you doing here?" he asked wretchedly. Dave answered for her. "Isn't she always on the job when she's needed? Yore fairy godmother that's what Miss Beulah Rutherford is. Rode hell-for-leather down here to haid off that coyote there and done it, too.
"W-w-what d'ye think it was, Thad?" asked Bumpus, presently; and the fact was very evident that his teeth were rattling at a lively rate, warm though the afternoon sun was at the time. Bob White said nothing, only he tried to read the face of their leader. Bob gave promise of making the finest kind of a Boy Scout.
"Ginger! but that does sound interesting," declared William. "It's j-j-just immense, that's w-w-what!" was Bluff's opinion. "Listen! I heard a laugh as sure as anything!" exclaimed Paul, lifting a hand to indicate silence; and every one of the group assumed an attitude of expectancy.
"When we drew lots for tents, it turned out that Steve, Bandy-legs and myself were to bunk in this big tent, while Max and Toby, taking a lot of the stuff along, had to sleep in the other, wasn't that it?" remarked Owen, as he got on his feet, and stretched himself, as though a little cramped from sitting so long in one position. "J-j-just w-w-what it was," Toby replied.
"Do you think they could have carried him off?" asked Pepper. "I don't know what to think," replied the colonel. "It's queer. You boys certainly have an amazing faculty for getting into trouble." "But how did you get here?" asked Rand. "I was just taking a stroll," replied the colonel, "when I heard the noise and came down to see what it was." "W-W-WHAT was that?" stammered Pepper.
W-w-what she come to M-M-Ma-Marsden for an' drive me plumb cr-cr-craz-crazy!" Montgomery's love of gossip was his own undoing. When, after the manner of Moses, worthy guide, the young angler had put his own fishing-tackle in order, he sought the dining-room, where supper awaited.
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