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Eustice, young man?" the teacher demanded next. "I am her secretary and try to save her work whenever possible. Perhaps I can answer your question." Behind Miss Prettyman's narrow back Betty signaled wildly. "Don't tell hush!" she wig-wagged, laying her finger against her lips. Tommy stared at her idiotically, his mouth gaping. "Thank you, but only Mrs.
Nobody was going to get a chance to say that he was to blame if anything happened this time. All next morning he wig-wagged in his yard. After dinner he went at it again. The work was cruelly monotonous. "There," he said grimly, when at last he quit; "I bet Don didn't practice that much today." All at once a voice whispered to him, "How could Don practice? He receives.
He wig-wagged, "Don't give up the ship," and was delighted when he found that his sending had been so sure that Don had caught every letter. By and by Bobbie appeared and leaned over the gate. "Hello, Tim," he called. Tim nodded shortly. He was too much engrossed in what he was doing to have thought for anything else. Don sent him, "Give me liberty or give me death."
What a change he showed when Rolf landed; he barked, leaped, growled, tail-wagged, head-wagged, feet-wagged, body-wagged, wig-wagged and zigzagged for joy; he raced in circles, looking for a sacrificial hen, and finally uttered a long and conversational whine that doubtless was full of information for those who could get it out. Rolf delivered his budget at once.
Wave your handkerchief, Jack." The boy sprang to the top of the conning tower, in order to permit those on the vessel to see him more plainly, and vigorously shook the white rag. That it was observed was evident when some one on the steamer wig-wagged back a reply.
"I'm sorry I haven't time to use the instrument," replied the engineer over his shoulder, while he wig-wagged his orders to his negro helpers scattered over the landscape, "but as nearly as I can tell with the naked eye, you are now standing in the exact center of it."
"Sure I did," answered George. "And I brought him back, didn't I?" "You didn't bring him back to camp," Will answered. "And you're the fellow who wig-wagged to us to come and escort the two of you home," continued Will, addressing George with a laugh. "Sure I wig-wagged," replied the boy. "Then why didn't you stay there until we came up and tell us what you wanted. You're a fine boy to wig-wag!"
What that look in his black eyes meant, as he turned to the half-way window of the turret, it would have been hard to read. And the picture of a fair-faced girl came back to his own hungry memory. He was trying to calculate the distance from the turret window to the ground when Trench wig-wagged a rescue signal.
Nina, Eileen, and Selwyn formed a lagging and leisurely rear-guard, though always within signalling distance of Boots and the main body; and, when necessary, the two ex-army men wig-wagged to each other across the uplands to the endless excitement and gratification of the children.
"Halt!" ordered the young sergeant. "Fall out, but don't scatter." Then Overton stepped to the edge of the woods, waving his hat. In the distance Lieutenant Prescott, with his own hat, returned the signal. Then Hal, using one arm in place of a signal flag, wig-wagged the information: "We have thoroughly scouted all about your position, and find no sign of an enemy."
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