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There was not a sound that Dick could hear, and when the canoe was within a hundred feet of the fire he could see Ned Barstow resting his elbow on a log near it, while the Indian lay beside a palmetto, apparently asleep. But as the canoe continued to approach, Charley Tommy lifted his head, took a swift look around, and, half rising, gazed keenly out over the water toward the boys in the canoe.
You are as stubborn and narrow as an old woman, Barstow," he complained. "Living is n't a matter of courage, physical or moral. It suits you it doesn't happen to suit me, but that doesn't mean that you are well and moral while I 'm sick and a coward. My difficulty is simple clear; I haven't the material means to get out of life what I want.
Martin, I found out early this morning, when I was squaring myself with the other children, that there was this row hangin' on in fact, that there was a sort of idea that Pike County wasn't having a fair show excuse me in the running of the school, and that Peaseley and Barstow were a little too much on in every scene. In fact, you see, it was just what Tom said."
"Meanwhile, as to Barstow and his thousand pounds. I must think the matter over. Barstow will not press you for a day or two. Just leave me your address the address in Dorsetshire." He dipped a pen in the ink and handed it to Hine. Hine took it and drew a sheet of paper toward him. But he did not set the pen to the paper.
And papa says he'll give some money, and I thought perhaps Mr. Farrington would, too; and then we thought it might help to have a bazaar and make some money that way, and then we'll send it to her anonymously, for I don't believe she'd take it any other way." Rosamond Barstow was present at this conversation, and she said: "I think it's a lovely plan, and I'll be glad to help.
I make you my homage, These are my two friends, Cecil Villere and Philippe Baring." "We are glad to welcome you," said Patty, in her pretty, frank way; "these are my friends, Mademoiselle Farrington and Mademoiselle Barstow. We are guests of your aunt." "Ah, my aunt!" said Henri, as the other boys acknowledged the introductions, "where is she? Did she not get my telegram?"
Barstow laughed nervously. "Oh, you refer to our little match in the garden," he said. "We dragged the gardener into it." "So I saw," Chayne replied. "The gardener seemed to be a remarkable shot. I think he would be a match for more than one professional."
You won't hear from me again, probably, until you're back from this fishing trip." Casey thought that everything was perfectly clear, and rashly he said so, as he started off. From Barstow to Victorville, from Victorville to Camp Cajon Casey drove expectantly, hoping to meet Smiling Lou.
There was a queer ring in the voice and Martin obeyed. Then "Shake, Old Kid!" Martin knew that a hand was clasping his. But why? "You made it! I knew you would. Didn't I tell you we'd get our pound of flesh?" "But but the contract " "To thunder with the contract!" came the happy answer of Barstow. "If you had only answered the 'phone, you wouldn't be so much in the dark.
Now, with that chief obstruction removed, he had but to consider the ethics of the question. In arguing with Barstow he had been sincere. He believed as he had said that a man had the right to end the contract so long as he cheated no one by so doing. All his life he had paid his way like a man, done his duty like a good citizen, given a fair return for everything he took.
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