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How did you ever think you'd get away with it?" He paused, then barked: "Come on! Explain!" "It was the only way I could think of to get back to the Naipor, great sir," said The Guesser weakly. The captain leaned back slowly in his seat. "Well, there's one extenuating circumstance. The officers of the Trobwell reported that you were a fine source of amusement during the trip.
"And so you thought you'd round him up and sweat some information out of him. That was it, wasn't it?" "You're quite a guesser and you show a whole lot of interest in the answer," retorted Glass. "Keep on guessing." "I don't need to. Come up to the house and have breakfast. And for Heaven's sake don't say anything to frighten the kid's mother." "What do you take us for?" said Glass.
Banneker, Chief," said Mr. Greenough crisply. "Carrying concealed weapons? If your men in that precinct were fit to be on the force, there would be no need for private citizens to go armed. You get the point, I see. Good-bye." "Unless I am a bad guesser we'll have Banneker back here by evening. And there'll be no manhandling in his case," Mallory said to Burt. Counsel was taken of Mr.
"I love the snow," admitted Ruth Fielding. "But perhaps a snowstorm in the wilderness is different from a storm in more civilized communities." "And you're a good guesser," grunted Long Jerry. "Anyhow, unless I'm much mistook, you'll have means of knowin' afore long." "Then," said Helen, to Ruth, "we must get the balsam to-day for our pillows. It won't snow yet awhile, will it, Jerry?"
"Its a secret," cried Hermione. "I think I can unravel your mysterious secret, little girl, you are a favourite with the housekeeper," added she, whispering in Hermione's ear, "and she has just given you an orange." "You are a very bad guesser of secrets," whispered Hermione in return. "It's no such thing!" "Then it's an apple." "No, nor an apple."
Then an expression of understanding passed over his face. "Ah! yes, I see, you are a good guesser, Paul. But please do not mention the fact to any one. We Government officials sometimes have to work sub rosa, as the saying is; that means without any one knowing what we are at. You understand, Paul?" "Yes, sir, I guess I do; but I hope there's nothing wrong here at our post-office.
"Fat chance you'll have, with Friend Harrison there to spot you, not to mention the old boy himself and Culvera." "It won't be Steve Yeager that joins. It will be a poor peon from the hills named Pedro or Juan or Pablo." "You're going to rig up as a Mexican?" "Some guesser, Lennox." "You can't put it over, not with your face looking like a pounded beefsteak.
"There's Reddy's family to consider. Perhaps I had better " " behave yourself in future and not refer to your friends as 'miscreants' after appropriating their Christmas presents," lectured David Nesbit. "All right, I agree to your proposition on one condition," stipulated Hippy. "Something to eat, I suppose," said David wearily. "No; you are a wild guesser as well as a slanderer.
The Guesser thought. So incredibly easy! Even the captain of the ship would only be a Class Two Exec. No one would question him no one would dare to. A lieutenant looked up, startled as he entered the ship itself, and saluted hurriedly. "It's an honor to have you aboard, great sir," he said apologetically, "but you realize, of course, that we are taking off in a very few minutes."
True statistics are the sum of little guesses, but often figures published as statistics are big guesses by a guesser who is big enough to have his guess accepted. A Big Business; Growing Bigger The only real statistics for the poultry crop of the United States are those of the Federal Census. At this writing these statistics are nine years old and somewhat out of date.
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