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I can't let you go. It wouldn't be fair to you or to Webb either. We're all in this together." "What'll you do to prevent my goin'?" "I'll tell the old man if I have to. Sho, kid! Let's not you an' me have trouble." Billie's gentle smile pleaded for their friendship. "We've been pals ever since we first met up. Don't go off on this crazy idea like a half-cocked hogleg."
It is packed now in my trunk, but usually I carry it about with me everywhere in order to take a little practice at the Rupert Street range. I bought it when Sir Mallaby told me he was sending me to America, because I thought I ought to be prepared because of the Underworld, you know." A cold gleam had come into Billie's eyes. Her face was pale and hard.
It took little imagination to vision the girl, flailed by the sweeping sand, bewildered by it, choked at every gasping breath, hopelessly lost in the tempest. Yet some bell of hope rang in Billie's breast. She might have reached the lava. If so, there was a chance that she might be alive.
As for Teddy, he was so busy watching Billie's flushed, excited and altogether charming face that he more than once lost the trend of the conversation. "I don't wonder Laura said mother couldn't refuse her anything," he thought. "I don't see how any one could refuse her when she talks and looks that way. Billie's a wonder, that's all."
"And it's coming right near, fellows, too." "It's an aeroplane all right," said Ferd, with conviction. "Nothing else ever made a noise like that." "Say, what are you doing up there?" a girl's voice hailed them from the bottom of the steps, and Chet thought he recognized it as Billie's. "Are you walking in your sleep or have you gone crazy? Come down here quick, we need you."
He turned to her again. Now that he had definitely established the fact that he and she were strangers, meeting by chance at a dinner-party, he was in a position to go on talking. "And how do you like England, Miss Bennett?" Billie's eye had lost its cheerful friendliness. A somewhat feline expression had taken its place. "Pretty well," she replied. "You don't like it?"
Roland!" called the conductor in stentorian tones, and with little squeals of excitement the girls found their hand baggage, gave one last little pat to their hats, and started toward the door. "You go first, Mrs. Gilligan," cried Violet, pushing that woman before her. "I wonder if Vi expects the ghosts to meet us at the station?" chuckled Laura in Billie's ear.
"It's easy," he remarked, craning his neck so that he could look at the girl. "Come on; I'll catch you!" And then Billie's senses whirled as the surgeon duplicated the feat. Next second Mona was standing beside Fort, five yards above the spot she had just left; and in that second everything had become precisely reversed; the two were now looking up!
We have to forage for something to eat and the fewer there are, the easier it will be. And speaking of eats, it seems to me I smell something cooking right now." At Billie's words the others sniffed up their noses. "It's a fact as sure as you're born," declared Donald. "And I'm going to find out where the odor comes from," said Billie. "There must be a house around here somewhere."
Mother said it was very valuable." Billie's face lighted for a moment, then fell again. "But you know Uncle Bill always said that you never could get anything like the value for old gold. And anyway," she rose and put a loving arm about him, "I couldn't let you do that for me, Chet, dear. I think you're the dearest brother in the world."
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