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Presently Dodge was within sixty feet of where his High School mates crouched in hiding. Suddenly the livery stable horse, some four or five hundred feet away, whinnied loudly, impatiently. Natural as the sound was, young Dodge, in the tense state of his nerves, started and looked frightened. "Wh-what was that?" he gasped. "A horse," called Hemingway quietly.
Jack was the first to recover his wits. He snatched his hands from his eyes and seized the wheel. In a jiffy the Wondership's earthward plunge was checked. Once more she regained an even keel. "Wh-what happened?" stuttered Tom anxiously. "We were hit by lightning," replied Jack. "Goodness! I thought we were goners, for a minute." "I confess that I did, too. But I guess the 'electric cage' worked.
"Rose ..." "Wh-what is it?" she prompted, at last. "Let me in," he said. "Don't turn me away to-night! I I can't ..." The only sound that came in answer was a long tremulously indrawn breath. But presently her hand took the one of his that had been clutching her shoulder and led him toward the end of the passage, where a faint light through a transom showed a door.
"Yes," she said, looking at him suddenly with the gleam of laughter in her eyes, although she was on the verge of tears. "Wh-what?" Jethro demanded. "Well," said Cynthia, demurely gazing down at her ankles, "shoes and stockings." The barefooted days had long gone by. Jethro laughed. Perhaps some inkling of her reasons came to him, for he had a strange and intuitive understanding of her.
"Betty," he said, swinging round toward her, "you aren't letting this thing get on your nerves, are you?" "Wh-what do you mean?" she asked faintly. "What thing?" "This gold business the excitement of it all," he said, waving his hand largely as though to take in the whole landscape. "I've noticed you looked tired lately," he went on gently, "and I've worried about it, little Betty.
"Then his struggles with the bush ceased and he opened his eyes and stared about him in bewilderment. "Wh-what is the matter? Wh-where am I?" he stammered, gazing around stupidly. "You've been asleep and dreaming," explained Snap. "You thought you were after a bear." "So I was -after a dozen bears. Did I -I kill any?" "There are no bears here. You were only dreaming." "Oh!"
The warbling song died out in the distance, there was a rush of feet outside the door, and Harry, breathless and excited, came bursting into the room. "I say, old man," he cried, "what do I think?" "Really, I don't know," laughed Frank. "What do you think?" "I I mean wh-what do you think?" spluttered Harry. "Why, I think a great many things. What's up, anyway?" "You know Diamond?"
"Wh-what was it?" he asked, puffing at the exertion of running up- stairs. "I saw a face at the window with some kind of thing over it!" gasped Elaine. "It was like one I saw once before." Uncle Joshua did not wait to hear any more. With the gun pointed ahead of him, ready for instant action, he ran out of the room and into the garden, beneath Elaine's window.
"Wh-what do ye m-m-mean?" "Jist the same whut I said, Stutter. Ye 're a broight one, ye are. That's the Mexican dancer down at the Gayety at San Juan, no less; and it's dollars to doughnuts, me bye, that that dom Farnham sint her out here to take a peek at us. It wud be loike the slippery cuss, an' I hear the two of thim are moighty chummy."
For a second my voice or will failed me, so I pretended I had not heard, and let him ask again. "Ray?" "None, sir." Every boy turned towards me, and my cheeks burned to maroon. I caught mutters of "Well, I'm hanged!" "Ye gods!" "Good-night!" "Wh-what did you say?" stuttered Carpet Slippers. I was irritated and nervous and replied rather too loudly: "None, sir." "None? Why none?"
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