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My people couldn't afford to pay more for me, and I don't care who knows it. We'll get there as soon " "I d-don't w-want to g-get there. What's at the end of it? I know very well I'll throw my damned self overboard, and then they'll see what they've done." "Who's they? And what is it they've done?" She had no idea that it was an extraordinary thing to take so much interest in a perfect stranger.
And the tw-twenty dollars? I'll g-get it to-morrow, you say?" "Yes." "A-and the other t-t-twenty? I'll get it later, eh?" "You can trust me, can't you, Patsy?" queried Billy. "B-betch yur life I can. E-e-e-everybody does. B-but how much later?" "When it is all over," answered Billy. "A-all right," responded his stuttering friend.
"I have got him," and shortly afterwards reappeared paddling a boat in which was the bewildered Gerald, who was helped onto the landing by the colonel and the others. "H-h-how did you g-get into the boat, Gerald?" asked Pepper when Gerald had somewhat recovered from the effects of his experience. "Did you think it was a good time to take a row?" "It looks that way," replied Gerald.
His face was ghastly blue, his teeth clicked and chattered, and the violent sunshine through which he walked could not warm him. "I'll s-s-sit down, and k-k-keep a guard on 'em," he chattered. "D-d-dash it all, I always g-get f-fever when there's any excitement. W-w-wh-what are you going to do?" "Gather up the guns first of all."
Jimmy had spent his entire youth in urging her to accept everything that was his, and he hailed this as a good omen. "I have a l-letter here for dad," she went on, fidgeting about uneasily and watching the door. "I don't want him to g-get it until after the last train goes to-night. Will you see that he d-doesn't get it before nine o'clock?"
"Sentinels walked up and down on the inner side, and I knew that I could not c-crawl over it, without being seen. They did not pay so much attention to the swampy ground at either end. I made up my mind to g-get to the low land, and pass by the end of the breastwork. "After we had been there six days, a storm began in the afternoon. The rain came down in torrents, and the wind b-blew hard.
"He's one sure enough go-getter." "Yes," agreed Bob. "He's there every jump of the road. An' he didn't tell on me either." "You can tie to Dud," agreed Blister. "Here's the point, son. When you g-get that sinkin' feelin' in yore tummy it's notice for you to get up on yore hind laigs an' howl. Be a wolf for a change." "But I can't. I seem to to wilt all up." "Son, you know the answer already.
Later they had time to laugh at the chattering teeth that made it impossible to say anything without stammering but it seemed anything but funny to them then. "Let's g-get out!" "Second the motion," cried Betty, with a wry little twist to her mouth, being, as usual, the first to recover her self control. "I can't see any sense in lingering."
"You're in a government office," cried Lilian, "and if you only chose, you could easily g-get g-government to find Bingo! What's the use of government if it can't do that? Mr. Travers would have found him long ago if I'd asked him!"
This Boltwood? Hotel in Kalispell trying to locate you, for two hours. Been telephoning all along the line, from Butte to Somers." "W-well, w-will you g-get 'em for me?" It was not Milt's placid and slightly twangy voice but one smoother, more decisive, perplexingly familiar, that finally vibrated, "Hello! Hello! Miss Boltwood! Operator, I can't hear. Get me a better connection. Miss Boltwood?"
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