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Updated: August 29, 2024
She'll put in a plea for you and so will Little Starbright, that's what 'is daughter is called on the bills if she gets a chance. Stay right 'ere, youngster. I've got to go in for my girl's act now. I wish you could see my girl. She's the queen of the air, and don't you forget it. Ain't she, boys?" There was a combined apparently customary chorus of approval.
There was the sound of fleeing feet in the corridor and a soft laugh, which trailed away and grew fainter in the distance. Frank Merriwell stepped back from the door and flung his shoulder against it with fearful force. With a splintering crash, the door gave way before the shock, and Merry staggered into the corridor. He was followed by Starbright and Morgan.
"Starlight," she murmured, "starbright, very first star I see to-night, wish I may, wish I might . . ." "Sky's full of stars," said Thomas. "Do you know what I wished?" "Do I?" "Don't you?" He looked at her in silence; awkwardly, then, she drew him down, until her lips brushed his cheek. "Look at Elsie," she murmured. "Did you ever?"
"He slipped me, boys," confessed Merry, with an expression of regret; "but the police have been notified, and they promised to do their best to nab him. How is Inza?" "She's all right," assured Starbright. "Of course, her nerves received a great shock; but you know how quickly she recovers, so I don't think you have any reason to worry about her.
Don't you worry, for I'll have eleven men and three or four substitutes. Leave it to me, fellows leave it to me." "I'm perfectly willing to do that," nodded Starbright, beaming in anticipation of the pleasures to come. "So am I," said Morgan, who had cast off his despondency and now seemed much like his old self. "But I wish one of you would stick me with a pin or something.
"Brad was a circus rider in his younger days, before he took to drink," explained Joey, as he and David sat together at the edge of the ring while Briggs, the ringmaster, announced the approach of "the world-famed child marvel, Little Starbright, and Monseer Dupont, in the great-est eques-trian feats evah attempted by mor-tal crea-tuah!"
Some one had recognized "Little Starbright" in the simply clad, demure young girl; the word was passed from table to table. She was stared at and whispered about from the time she entered the place until she left. David, alert and dogged, soon forgot the boorishness of the country- folk, however, in the painful study of conditions near at hand. Colonel Grand, the host, was most affable.
A sickly gas jet was burning within the room. Stretched across a wretched bed lay a dark, silent figure. Starbright leaped forward and bent over the form on the bed, clutching at it. "Dade!" he called, his voice full of alarm. The figure stirred, and the big, yellow-haired youth drew a breath of relief. "What's the matter?" asked a dull, mechanical voice. "Oh, is it you, Starbright, old man? Gods!
Now you own up." Frank explained as briefly as possible. "Want these fellows?" questioned Starbright. "They're getting in condition to sneak." Indeed, two of the thugs had "sneaked" already, having improved the opportunity while the attention of Merry and Starbright was wholly absorbed by the surprise of their unexpected meeting.
Vic held her arm to keep her from falling, and once on a sliding rock, he had to catch both of her hands, and half-lift her to solid footing. Her shining eyes, starbright in the gloom, the dainty rose hue of her cheeks, the touch of her soft white hands, and her need for his strength, made the shadowy path delicious for her companion.
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