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61405And where be you going?
61405Be it slavery to use my horses to work for me? 61405 Daniel Kutsov?"
61405Do any of these fit?
61405Do you want to be let out?
61405For your sonic pistol?
61405Gee, would you?
61405Have you had any trouble picking us up?
61405How be you feeling this morning, young lady?
61405How be you tonight?
61405How long has it been?
61405Mia, are you mad at me for something?
61405Mia, do you want to go partners if we can get together when we get down?
61405Oh?
61405So what?
61405Those green things were Losels? 61405 To jail again?
61405What makes you think so?
61405Where be you from?
61405Why did you come back?
61405Why would they be doing that?
61405Why?
61405Would you like to see me pop some targets? 61405 You know that, do n''t you?"
61405You''re not mad?
61405After a minute of inspection, Riggy asked,"You would n''t want to trade, would you?"
61405And you?"
61405Ask somebody?
61405Back again?
61405Be that Jimmy Dentremont outside?"
61405Be you out of your head?
61405Be you sure that you will be all right?"
61405Could you make it some other afternoon or maybe some evening?"
61405Do we have a choice?"
61405Eavesdrop?
61405First, what be your name?"
61405For my book?"
61405Got that?
61405He brought the signal over to me and said,"Should I, or do you want to?"
61405He said,"What be you doing out here, boy?
61405How did your paper go?"
61405How do you find out what''s going on?
61405I did n''t say it, but I thought-- when you lay blame, whom do you put it on?
61405I said, as wide- eyed and innocent as I could,"Can you help me, sir?"
61405I turned and said,"Do you want to get shot?"
61405I turned to Jimmy then and I said,"Jimmy, it''s a relief to be back, is n''t it?
61405Is n''t that horrible?
61405Jimmy finished and I asked,"Where is your signal?
61405Make up?"
61405Mr. Kutsov brought me some food later in the day, and I asked him then,"Why are you doing all this for me?"
61405People who are obviously sick like these Mud- eaters, or people who are normal like us?
61405Riggy had been sneaking a look at my gun, and now he said,"Where did you get that neat pistol?
61405The policeman looked over at us and said,"What are you doing up here, Robards?
61405The trouble is, you do n''t go partners with the competition, do you?
61405Venie glared at me and demanded,"What was that for?"
61405What sort of help do you need?"
61405Where was it from?
61405Who?
61405Why are they afraid of them?"
61405Would you really have shot him?"
61405You trying to wish me problems?"
61405You want to?"
36258And I suppose books are fun?
36258And that''s where you got this idiotic notion that you do n''t want the Transformation, is n''t it? 36258 But why?"
36258But with the tapes, why should you try and read books-- where did you get them?
36258But-- what will you do with me?
36258But_ why_?
36258D-- Don''t want it?
36258Deserve what, Mother? 36258 Do n''t you want to be beautiful, like other people-- like me?
36258Do we have to wait much longer?
36258Do-- do I really have to?
36258Do? 36258 Does it have to be on, Mother?"
36258Hmm?
36258How are we going to live? 36258 I beg your pardon, Madam?"
36258Little girl, can you realize what an issue you have caused? 36258 Little girl, how old are you?"
36258Little girl,said the handsome man,"do you actually mean to tell us that you_ prefer_ that body?"
36258Mary, do n''t you know that nobody sleeps anymore? 36258 No hard feelings?"
36258Now where could she have picked that up?
36258Now, it is n''t so bad as you thought, is it?
36258Oh no, you do n''t think-- I mean, could it?
36258Sure you wo n''t change your mind?
36258That bad, eh? 36258 To-- did you say''sleep''?"
36258Upset? 36258 Well, then what is it?"
36258What did you do today, Mother?
36258What has happened to_ them_ and do n''t they miss_ themselves_, these manufactured things?
36258What in the world were you doing on the floor?
36258Where will I find_ me_?
36258Where_ are_ these people?
36258Why is this happening?
36258Why-- is there a law against them?
36258Why?
36258Would you like to see it?
36258Would you please repeat that?
36258Yes, but what has this to do with--"With Mary? 36258 You can look in the mirror and see yourself, then look at-- well, at your mother and be content?"
36258You do?
36258You see? 36258 Ah, but then-- if people did not get upset, we psychiatrists would be out of a job, eh? 36258 And what if he hears of all this, what''ll happen then?
36258Are there_ books_ at your Unit, Madam?"
36258Ca n''t you sit still for a minute?"
36258Can I support both of us?
36258Child, have you actually_ slept_?
36258Did Mother, even?
36258Did they_ all_ look like this, before?
36258Do you fully understand what you have done?
36258Do you reconsider?
36258Does n''t the happiness of your Mother mean anything to you?"
36258Er-- does she also do odd things?"
36258Home and no talking man in a foolish white gown...."Book, book?
36258How could you begin to try to do something people have forgotten entirely about?"
36258Is n''t that so, my dear child?
36258Mary screamed,"when it''s all over?"
36258Mrs. Cuberle screamed,_"What!_ Do you think I want people to point to you and say I''m the mother of an idiot?
36258Mrs. Zena Cuberle?"
36258Or,"she looked up hopefully,"have you changed your mind?"
36258Rocket man, eh?
36258Say, kid, you got a minute?"
36258She asks herself, why must I be hideous, unbalanced, oversize, undersize, full of revolting skin eruptions, badly schemed organically?
36258Still, who watches it?"
36258That we have an infinitely greater life- span than our poor ancestors now that the wasteful state of unconsciousness has been conquered?
36258The greatest gift of all, and what if others should get the same idea?
36258The unrest, the wasted time?
36258Well now, Mary, may I say that I understand your problem-- understand it thoroughly?"
36258What am I doing that''s so wrong?"
36258What can I do, now?
36258What can it be?"
36258What might your name be?"
36258What would happen to us then, little girl?
36258What, may I ask, is to be done?"
36258Where does the money come from now?
36258Why should you want to do such a silly thing?"
36258Why?"
36258Will you accept the Transformation?"
36258Willmes?"
36258You, uh, you saw the psychiatrist?"
17666''Lose us,''what are you talking about?
17666Ah, then you come from the south, too?
17666Am I, Beppino mio?
17666And may I take the flowers to the hospital?
17666And suppose I wo n''t come? 17666 Are n''t you ashamed to speak so?"
17666Are they Austrians?
17666Are we really going in an automobile?
17666Are you awake, dear?
17666Are you comfortable, Nana?
17666Are you sorry?
17666Are you sure of what you say?
17666Are you very hungry, little one?
17666Away?
17666Back to fight?
17666Beppi, Beppi, where are you?
17666Beppino mio, what has happened?
17666But Beppi, he is safe, and aunt is taking care of him?
17666But I do n''t understand,Maria protested,"did you know him before?"
17666But are there no goats in your garden to milk, and no work to do?
17666But how could I think to look in a tree for a soldier?
17666But how?
17666But what does he do on the beach?
17666But what has happened? 17666 But what if there were another one to take its place?"
17666But who can get to it?
17666But why, what have I done?
17666But you are too young to have many worries,Roderigo protested;"or I beg your pardon, perhaps you have some one up there?"
17666Can you show me the place where you thought you heard the explosion?
17666Can you show me the place?
17666Caro mio, how long ago?
17666Come, my pet,Lucia whispered,"we are going away and I have a ribbon for your neck, see?"
17666Did you see the troops, Nana?
17666Do we_ sleep_ in the train?
17666Do you know how to blow up a bridge that is mined?
17666Do you know that the King is coming?
17666Do you mean, they are coming from that side?
17666Do you really mean we are going?
17666Do you remember the beggar you saw on the road the day you followed the two Austrian soldiers?
17666Do you suppose I can see him?
17666Do you think that I will be taken prisoner by an Austrian? 17666 Do you want me?"
17666Do you want the basket back again?
17666Do you, or do n''t you understand what I am saying?
17666Does that animal belong to you?
17666For the love of Pete, what have you got there?
17666Garibaldi? 17666 Garibaldi?"
17666Good morning, Garibaldi, how are you this morning?
17666Good,the Captain smiled,"then you wo n''t mind my going away?"
17666Ha, ha, now you are curious,Lucia teased,"are n''t you?
17666Had the Italians crept up and into Cellino during the night?
17666Have n''t you some friends that Lucia could see?
17666Have the Austrians surrendered?
17666Have you heard any of the officers talking?
17666How can I get you back?
17666How can they?
17666How can you ask? 17666 How did you escape?"
17666How do you?
17666How is my soldier of the pennies?
17666I am when I grow up,he replied seriously,"but I can be a sailor in the meantime, ca n''t I?"
17666I shall tell you everything,Lucia promised, eagerly,"every tiny little thing, and you will write back?"
17666Is it nearly time to go?
17666Is that the milk I brought in this morning?
17666Is this child telling me the truth?
17666Leave? 17666 Lucia, Lucia, my child, where are you?"
17666Maria, where have you come from?
17666Marie, Louise, Josephine?
17666May I pass, sir, please? 17666 Nearer?"
17666No-- what in thunder do you mean?
17666Now where is it? 17666 Oh if we must move, where can we go to?
17666Oh yes, sir, how could I keep it? 17666 Oh, I am not visiting,"she replied,"I brought these few flowers for the sick soldiers; will you take them?"
17666Oh, I see, and what did you say his name was?
17666Oh, it is nothing but silliness,Lucia protested,"how can it matter?"
17666Oh, no, he is not,Lucia contradicted hastily,"he will like sleeping in Rome, wo n''t you, my pet?"
17666Oh, you have put me in your letter? 17666 Perhaps he was a tourist?"
17666Pin?
17666Poor Beppino, some one is always disturbing your fine dreams, are n''t they? 17666 Poor youngster, whoever sent her out for water?
17666So you are the brave little girl whom I must thank for saving Captain Riccardi''s life, and for blowing up the bridge?
17666So you''re back at last, are you?
17666The soldiers?
17666Then if it is n''t that, what is it you want me to do?
17666Then the bridge has gone?
17666Then why did you come back?
17666Then your mother is dead too?
17666They were a fine lot, eh? 17666 Think you can manage to carry the little lady, Lathrop?"
17666Wake up in the little white cottage and milk the goats and trudge to town with the heavy pails?
17666Was he brave?
17666Was that Señora Garibaldi that we came nearly running over?
17666Well then, what is it?
17666Well, and why not,Lucia demanded,"would n''t you be?"
17666Well, are you rested enough to be moved?
17666Well, do n''t worry any more,the Doctor replied,"and now what do you want?"
17666Well, little sister of mine, how are you?
17666What about Señor Lathrop?
17666What am I doing here?
17666What are you doing prowling around here at this time of day?
17666What are you saying?
17666What can I do?
17666What can the matter be?
17666What did you do?
17666What did you say?
17666What is it?
17666What is it?
17666What is the news?
17666What is your name?
17666What makes you say that?
17666What shall it be about?
17666What''s happened?
17666What''s that?
17666What?
17666When will it go off?
17666When?
17666Where are they from?
17666Where are you taking me?
17666Where can he be?
17666Where did you sleep?
17666Where do you live?
17666Where is Beppi?
17666Where is Beppino?
17666Where is the soldier who found this girl?
17666Who told you?
17666Who wants to kill? 17666 Who''s going to tell her?"
17666Why did n''t you go to the soldiers and ask for shelter?
17666Why do you call him''your soldier of the pennies''?
17666Why not?
17666Why should he laugh because of Garibaldi''s name?
17666Will we have time to get away?
17666Would n''t a prince or a fairy godfather do just as well?
17666Would you like to go away to the south and live there?
17666You come from the south, do n''t you?
17666You live in Cellino, so why not say so? 17666 You''re new, are n''t you?
17666Your name? 17666 Your name?"
17666Your name?
17666And we''ll be sorry too, wo n''t we?
17666Beppi demanded,"like the one the King came in?"
17666Beppi queried,"where are you going?"
17666Beppi, Nana, are they safe?"
17666But tell me, how is my soldier of the pennies?
17666But, Nana, where will we go?
17666CHAPTER XI THE AMERICAN"Are you suffering very much?"
17666CHAPTER XVIII IN THE GARDEN"How does my little sister like her new home?"
17666Did he have a big scar on his face, Beppino?"
17666Did you give away the money?"
17666Do you hear?"
17666Do you know who that was that you made to stop?
17666Do you remember how for a few days about a week before this battle, I only brought two pails of milk to your stall in the morning?"
17666Does n''t he look sad?"
17666Have you heard the news?"
17666He stopped and then said very slowly in Italian:"Good morning, how are you this morning?"
17666Here, sister, help me, will you?"
17666How about your Roderigo?
17666How could I reach them?
17666How would you like to come and be my sister?
17666I did not know you were a Captain, I thought--""You thought I was just a poor soldier, eh?"
17666If I can scare him, what will the guns do?"
17666Now perhaps you will tell her that we will not have to run away at a minute''s notice, too?"
17666Now tell me, where did you find him?"
17666She saw the flock of goats grazing, and called,"Beppino mio, where are you?"
17666Since when must Italians make way for Austrians, I''d like to know?"
17666Sister Francesca has a little room fixed for you and some clean clothes; how does that sound?"
17666So that is why I called him my soldier of the pennies; do you see?"
17666That was the King, do you hear?"
17666The voice said:''Little goat herder, will you give me a drink of milk?''"
17666Was she safe in the mountains, or lying dead in a shell hole?
17666What do those boys who swagger about in men''s places know about the enemy?
17666What harm would it do if you told Nana?
17666What has made us lose so much lately?"
17666What kept you?"
17666What kind of a soldier would you make, I''d like to know, dreaming every few minutes?
17666What made you come back?"
17666What were you doing?"
17666What will become of our things?"
17666Where are they, dead or prisoners?"
17666Where do you come from?"
17666Where have you been?
17666Where is Beppi?"
17666Where is Paolo?"
17666Where was she, and what had become of her in all the terrors of yesterday?
17666Which of us is right?
17666Why do n''t you wait until you get there and leave Garibaldi to Maria with the rest?"
17666Will you come?"
17666Will you help me?"
17666queried Nana,"what are you saying?"
17666she asked,"surely he is with you?"
17666she exclaimed,"where is she?"
36873And about Miss Fitzacre?
36873And is one for you then, dear?
36873And pray, Miss Bozerne, what may be your business?
36873And so there''s another new girl coming, just my age? 36873 And who may that be, you little goose?"
36873And why not, pray?
36873Any chance of a taste of anything?
36873Arn''t you afraid of catching a worse cold?
36873Bring some bricklayers and scaffold poles, and have a scaffold made on purpose?
36873But how do you get to know all this?
36873But how is he to get one there?
36873But that police? 36873 But the dog?
36873But, I say, you''ll let me drink your health, you know, wo n''t you?
36873But, oh, Clara,I said, when we were alone,"suppose that had been poor Achille?"
36873Did you hear the lady principal''s summons, Miss Bozerne?
36873Do n''t what?
36873Do n''t you see?
36873Do you suppose, miss, that no one else but you can manage to pass and receive notes so cleverly?
36873Eh?
36873For your sake, Achille?
36873How can you say so? 36873 How can you talk such nonsense?
36873How could you be so false?
36873How could you frighten me so?
36873How dare Miss Furness know?
36873How did you get out?
36873How should I know?
36873I say,drawled Miss Smith to Clara,"what''s tendencies towards folly?
36873I thought so,said she, laughing;"you wo n''t make me jealous, dear, about the Signor, now, will you, you dear, handsome girl?
36873I''m going to look, ai nt I?
36873I''m sure I do,said Clara;"I said_ like_, did n''t I?"
36873In what-- in what, mon cher?
36873Is Ann going away?
36873It did tease you, then, did it?
36873It will be so dull now, with nothing to look forward to; and-- heigho!--who would have thought that he would be so false?
36873Know all about what?
36873Let me see,said Mrs Blunt, affecting ignorance,"this is your room, is it not, my dear?
36873Mademoiselle is not hurt,_ I hope_?
36873Must n''t I?
36873No,said Patty, sleepily;"I never do, do I?
36873Now, did you not promise to forget all that?
36873Of course not-- a darling?
36873Of course we can depend upon you, my child?
36873Oh, his poor head?
36873Oh, how came she to know, I wonder?
36873Oh, my own, dear, darling Clara,I cried, in a whisper,"is this true?
36873Oh, that''s what you mean, is it?
36873Oh, what''s the good of supposing?
36873Oh, yes-- I know, my good man,said Miss Furness;"but I mean who was out there?"
36873Once more,said Mrs Blunt,"do you mean to tell me who it was that I distinctly saw, with my very own eyes, standing upon the leads talking to you?"
36873Poor fly,I thought--"poor, beautiful, fluttering, brightly painted fly; and have I been the means of weaving a net to lure thee to destruction?
36873Say?
36873Shall I give up my bed, ma''am?
36873Silent? 36873 So it seems,"I said, maliciously;"but does he know that you call him your Italian?"
36873Then you do n''t think he is killed, dear?
36873Vots for you heere, Mees Bozerne?
36873We were afraid it would turn out to be some cross, frumpy, stuck- up body, were n''t we, Patty?
36873Well, but how ever could he get up there to talk to you?
36873Well, is he there?
36873What are you going to do?
36873What are you sobbing for?
36873What could have made that horrible crashing noise?
36873What did you do it at all for, when you were asked not?
36873What do you mean, mamma?
36873What do you mean?
36873What do you think, ladies?
36873What does he say, dear?
36873What for?
36873What is it?
36873What notes?
36873What shall I say about it, ma''am?
36873What shall I say next,I asked myself, and then corrected my question; for it ought to have been,"What shall I say first?"
36873What would he do then?
36873What would they say?
36873Whatever can you mean?
36873Whatever shall I do?
36873Which is?
36873Who was it, Miss Fitzacre?
36873Who''s there?
36873Why could you not trust me? 36873 Why do n''t you cut the rope?"
36873Why, did n''t he get his leg caught, and then did n''t the rope give way?
36873Why, how can you say so?
36873Why, what is the matter?
36873Why, where is James, cook?
36873Will you be quite open with me for the future, then?
36873Wo n''t you make your cold worse, dear?
36873Worthy of trust, are you not?
36873Yes, is n''t she?
36873You wo n''t tell tales, will you, Patty?
36873You would not have betrayed me if you had been in my position; now, would you?
36873( Would you think it possible that mammas who pride themselves upon their keenness would be led away and believe such nonsense?)
36873Abandoned, lost girl, what will become of you?"
36873Ah, Madame Bloont, Madame Bloont, why you keep such monster savage to attack vos amis?
36873All at once, though, I heard him whisper--"Is de ting sauf?"
36873And pray who sleeps here?"
36873And so he is to have a living down in the country?
36873And so it''s all off between you and Monsieur Achille, is it, dear?
36873And so you took me for him, did you?
36873And then again she wrote,"What does he say, dear?"
36873And then, as a matter of course, I was obliged to tell another story; so what good could come to me from the visits of our vicar and his followers?
36873And those contents?
36873And thus we stood for some few moments, each waiting for the other to speak; when he said, in a whisper,--"Better now?"
36873And was n''t Patty Smith the butcher''s girl?
36873And we had no pets-- neither bird nor dog; and what could I do but set to loving something?
36873And what do you think the happy thought was?
36873And, by the way, who was Ann, that he had asked me about?
36873Are not flowers sweet after the rain?"
36873Bo- o- o- h?"
36873But I say, my dear, how''s Ann?
36873But did you think that I was blind, Laura Bozerne, and could n''t see what was going on?
36873But then, what interest could he feel in the poor, weak school- girl that I was?
36873But there, who could expect to enjoy the roses of love without the thorns?
36873But was I not prisoned like a poor dove, and was it not likely that I should beat my breast against the bars in my efforts to escape?
36873But we do n''t want you to tell us anything-- we know all about it, do n''t we, girls?"
36873But what could I do?
36873But what does my young friend here say-- would she object to such a change being made?
36873But, oh, did poor Achille escape?
36873Could he still be in the tank, and were my dreams in slumber right?
36873Did I not feel low- spirited, and wake of a morning unrefreshed?
36873Did I not have a strong inclination to sigh?
36873Directly after, though, she slipped back to my side, and I whispered to her, laying my hand upon her arm--"Had you not better tell?
36873Do you mean to tell me that they did not both know how they were deceiving one another?
36873Feel better, do n''t you?"
36873For she had been asleep, and when I reproached her--"Well, of course,"she said, peevishly;"it''s sleeping time, is it not?"
36873For was Clara to be trusted?
36873Had Achille betrayed me and fled?
36873How could I go?
36873I dare say it will be correct, wo n''t it?
36873I ejaculated, opening my eyes to their widest extent,"who are you?"
36873I said;"how can you talk so?
36873I suppose that you could not manage to change the present order, Mrs de Blount?"
36873I thought to myself--"surely she is not deceiving me?"
36873I would have given anything to have been able to refuse; but what could I do?
36873Is Miss Bozerne here?"
36873Is it always so, that people will talk and do the very opposite to that which you wish?
36873Is n''t she, Patty, tiresome beyond all reason?"
36873Let me see, where was I?
36873Now, of course, I am aware that I am writing this is a very desultory manner; but after Mrs Blunt''s rules and regulations, what can you expect?
36873Now, tell the truth, ai n''t you glad yourself?"
36873Now, was it not?
36873Of course I did not like making another confidante; but, under the circumstances, what could one do?
36873Of course, you wo n''t tell, darling?
36873Or was he watching?
36873Shall I ever be happy again?
36873This establishment combines the highest educational phases with the comforts of a home,"--(Now is it not as wicked to write stories as to say them?
36873Was I to be imprisoned-- taken before a magistrate?
36873Was n''t it shocking?
36873Was not my appetite rather failing?
36873Was the Signor a smuggler, and had the troubles anything to do with brandy?"
36873What are you going to do with that water?"
36873What could I do but sink back with a hysterical sob, my mind in a state of chaos?
36873What could I do, being so weak, and leaning towards him as I did then?
36873What could I do?
36873What could I do?
36873What could I do?
36873What did I want with medicine?
36873What do you say, ladies?"
36873What do you think papa said?"
36873What had he been up to, mum?"
36873What of him?
36873What shall I do-- what shall I do?"
36873What was I to do?
36873What was I to do?
36873What would I not have given that day to have lulled the excitement of my feelings, and to have attended quietly to my duties as I ought?
36873What would some one say if he knew?"
36873What''s she going away for, Miss Furness, please?"
36873Whatever shall we do?"
36873Where is Monsieur Achille-- the gentleman who was with me?"
36873Where is the dog?"
36873Why did n''t he come right up?"
36873Why, did n''t I get to know about Miss Hicks being the grocer''s daughter, and being paid for in sugar?
36873Will that soot yer?"
36873Would she not miss her friend, the young person of the name of-- er-- Jones?"
36873You will be silent?
36873You will excuse me for a moment?
36873and what was that fearful crash?
36873exclaimed Clara;"why should not I have notes as well as somebody, who has her meetings as well?"
36873exclaimed Lady Blunt, pressing up to me,"how could you?"
36873exclaimed Miss Furness,"what are you about?"
36873he ejaculated,"_ ma foi, qu''est ce que c''est_?"
36873how can I describe it all?
36873how can I sufficiently apologise?"
36873or"Wo n''t that do, sir?"
36873said Clara at last;"do you think it was the policeman, dear?"
36873said Clara,"or is it only his pieces?
36873said wide- open- mouthed Patty, staring;"he would not break, would he?"
36873she said;"had n''t you better stay in the bedroom, dear?"
36873that is right,"said her ladyship;"and Miss Smith?"
36873what shall I do?"
36873what shall we do?"
36873where is Miss Smith?"
36873why do not Savoury and Moore, or Godfrey and Cooke, or somebody or another bring out an opiate for pains mental?
36873yes, I remember; and you have Miss Fitzacre with you, and who else?"
36919A doom?
36919And if your parents do n''t like it?
36919Are n''t they all as poor as church mice, and is n''t Roger as likely a young man as one would wish to see?
36919Can you always decide everything in your life?
36919Did he kiss you?
36919Did you know Mr. Byington was the one, Ellen?
36919Did you say you had come to get me?
36919Do I look it?
36919Do n''t you know that Roger Byington came here to work and settle down; do n''t you know that he has a marriage already planned? 36919 Do you know what this is?
36919Do you think she is going to make an awful fuss?
36919Ellen, what''s this gossip I hear about you and Roger?
36919Ellen,her aunt broke off accusingly,"did_ you_ think of bringing those hens into the house?"
36919Had n''t you better stay?
36919Have you no respect for life?
36919He held me from him, the way he does, at arm''s length, and said:''Ellen, have you doubted me?'' 36919 How can you?"
36919How could I guess?
36919How do you know?
36919How should I know?
36919How stop a child communing with her Maker?
36919Is n''t the other place better?
36919It would be a poor sort of love I''d bring to Ellen, would n''t it? 36919 Roberta,"said Alec,"is Ellen in love with Roger?"
36919Seeing Ellen, and seeing her free, wo n''t you care more for her than you ought?
36919That''s why you went out?
36919Then, why do n''t you turn away your eyes from the offensive spectacle?
36919Well, you see,he explained,"it''s all over, is n''t it, forever?
36919Well,I asked Alec,"how did you find her?"
36919What ails Ellen?
36919What are we going to do?
36919What did you want to do?
36919What does she want,I asked,"that she has n''t?"
36919What have you been doing?
36919What sort of fate?
36919What with?
36919What''s happened to Roger?
36919Why did you come for me anyhow, Ellen Payne,she cried,"when he might need you?
36919Why wo n''t you see him,I pleaded with her,"just for one moment?"
36919Why, Alec, what do you mean?
36919Why, Roger,I asked him,"do n''t you break your engagement now, if that''s what you mean to do?"
36919Why-- what should?
36919Wo n''t you be seated? 36919 Wo n''t you_ please_ say that this is my brother?"
36919Yes,said my grandmother,"I suppose you will love the holes out of their clothes and love their gingham aprons into being, wo n''t you?"
36919You''ll help me now, Ellen, wo n''t you?
36919''And you, Ellen; you waited the same way for me, did n''t you?
36919''Ca n''t men be friends with you,''I asked,''without wanting to marry you?''
36919''Could n''t we stop being slack?''
36919''Did n''t you ever care,''I asked him,''for any one for a moment?''
36919''Good- bye, Ellen,''he said; and I cried,''Where are you going?''
36919''Have you been there often?''
36919''How can you tell?''
36919''How could I interfere with your work?''
36919''How could I run the risk of being the cause of serious trouble between you and your father and mother?''
36919''How often, Ellen?''
36919''I came back to find a wonderful little girl; where is she?''
36919''No,''he said,''how could I?
36919''Squizzelty Betsey,''said she,''what has Ellen to do with it?''
36919''What is it, Ellen?''
36919''What time was it?''
36919''What was that?
36919''When did it happen, Ellen?''
36919''Where have you been?''
36919''Where were you, Ellen?''
36919''Why do you do it?''
36919''Would you have to keep house for him,''I said,''the way you did for dear papa?''
36919''You meant to marry me just the same?
36919Alec was there, and he asked me shortly:--"Why could n''t Roger come?"
36919Am I wrong, or are they?
36919And I said in a low voice, and blushing,--and I took my face off her hand for fear she would feel me blush against it,--''What should I have?''"
36919And I said,''How can I?''
36919And then he put his arms around me and kissed me so that I could hardly breathe, and said,''Ellen, do you belong to me?''
36919And then he said:''Ellen, why should n''t we-- why should n''t we walk out together, just you and me to- night?''
36919And when I said,''Oh, Roberta, are n''t we rather young yet to think about being old maids?''
36919And when I told him, he said,''That makes it simpler, does n''t it?
36919Are all women in life egotists that they ca n''t bear that the eyes of the beloved do n''t rest on them every moment?"
36919Are you like other women; while I''ve been away did that candid, little girl learn to hide herself and learn to be false to her word?''
36919Are you sure that Elizabeth cares for you?"
36919At last he said:''Did you have a good time in Boston, Ellen?''
36919Aunt Sarah said,''Does she read with her knee; and how came you there anyway, Ellen?''
36919Before Ellen had time to reply, as though she read her confession in the color that mounted to her face,"How could you do such a thing, Ellen?"
36919But I have bound my life up in you, so what can I do, and where will I find comfort?
36919But yet, how can I get the strength to tell him to- morrow night that I wo n''t do what he wants me to?
36919Come,"she wheedled,"why wo n''t you say it''s my brother?"
36919Could n''t you get up and walk out of the room?
36919Dennett?''
36919Did I hear you say"your little friends from Erin"?
36919Did he think that I had failed him so that he does n''t want me any more, or that I lacked so in courage and in love of him?...
36919Did n''t you hear me calling to you from the mountain?
36919Did you make of love a sorry barter, or did you give with such a gesture as spring makes when it walks blossoming across the land?"
36919Do you wish anything else?"
36919Does it make you want to go and take the amber beads off a baby''s neck just because I brought in a hen and it perched on John Seymore''s shoulder?
36919Ellen, how can you continue this way to me for an idea, a foolish, bad idea, a taught idea?
36919Ellen, why would n''t you run away with me?''
36919Even young as she was, she asked,"Where?"
36919For who, in the winter of the spirit, can again believe in spring?
36919Have you been back?''
36919Have you seen me as I am, and is that why you no longer care as you did?
36919Have you seen these children before?''
36919He came forward to me in that way that always makes me think of leaping flame and said:''You''ve decided to go, have n''t you, Ellen?''
36919He drew me to him and said,''Ellen, are you coming?
36919He said:''Why, what have I done?''
36919How can I hurt a love that has been given to me?
36919How can a man love so cowardly a woman?
36919How can one measure one''s friends by the pound?
36919How can we tell another person of the rebirth of one''s own soul?
36919How could it happen?
36919How do you like this idea?''
36919I am sorry to be at odds with them, but what difference does it make to me, after all?
36919I asked him,"caring for Ellen?"
36919I could n''t do what I thought was right; how do I know I will be able to keep from doing what''s wrong?
36919I could only hide my head on his shoulder and whisper to him,''Yes''; and he said to me,''Will you come with me, then, bad girl?''
36919I cried,"why does the world have to be so at cross- purposes?
36919I fancy that women will have another bar of judgment and that the question asked us there will be:"Have you loved well?
36919I know you would look at me as one who says,''Am I not here with you now?
36919I said to her:''Would n''t_ they_ be a thorn in_ our_ flesh?''
36919I suppose all this means that I wanted to ask you when you were here,''What''s the matter, Roger?
36919I ventured to ask her at last:"What''s the matter, Ellen?"
36919I want to say:''Do n''t you know how much more she has than you?
36919I was a good enough friend of his to be able to ask:--"Is it fair to Elizabeth?"
36919I was profoundly touched, as who would not have been?
36919I went in and kissed mother and she said:''Was your aunt pleased with the present, dear?''
36919I wonder if I shall always have to bleed for you, drop by drop, and that while I bleed, my strength also goes?
36919I wonder if all people who do wrong only feel badly when they are found out?
36919If it is so, why should n''t I think so, I wonder?
36919If you had gone and had n''t come back, what would have happened?''
36919Mrs. Payne''s wide- eyed,"Why should n''t she be?
36919No matter what happens, Ellen is Roger''s, and why should I hang around and bay the moon?
36919Now what hope have I or where can I turn in this world?
36919She asked him,--"Do you like going out with me, Tyke?"
36919She writes to him at this time:--"What did I do with my time before I met you?
36919The child ceased roaring for a moment, upon which Ellen remarked to me with grave self- composure:--"How do you do?
36919Then she said to me:''You have seemed a little absent- minded lately, my darling child; have you anything on your mind, Ellen?''
36919Then tormented out of herself, she cried out:"Roger, was there no reality of any friendship between us?
36919They always say to me:''Why ca n''t you sit and sew under the trees with the other girls?''
36919To Miss Sarah''s hot,"What do you mean?"
36919We began reading poetry the other day-- how shall I tell it?
36919We did n''t know passion when it came to us, nor how should we?
36919We''ll walk to each other straight out of the open door, without fear, wo n''t we?''
36919Were you engaged all the time that I''ve known you?"
36919Were you small and grudging and niggardly?
36919What attainment of his can wipe out this cruelty?
36919What chained you there?
36919What could I say to him?
36919What could I tell him?
36919What did"over the mountain"mean, anyway, but Alec?
36919What has happened to your love for me?''
36919What if he knew how I had worked to get everything done so I could fly up there at sunset?
36919What if one should turn back into the person that one was once?
36919What should there be?
36919What thing is so worthless as an undesired love?
36919What will happen to you whose goodness has come out to meet the goodness in me all your life?
36919What''s that you''re doing?"
36919What''s the harm in hens; what evil does bringing a hen into the minister''s house lead to?
36919What''s the matter, Ellen?''
36919When Ellen, who had opened the door for him, said:--"Why, I''m Ellen Payne and what do you want?"
36919When I answer,''But if I act so, does n''t it show that I am not too old, Aunt Sarah?''
36919When I had courage enough to say,''What''s been the matter, Roger?
36919When I said,''Roberta, is n''t noticing everything they do and talking about it just the same as talking about boys?''
36919When I tell him to remember the talk that it will mean, he says to me:''Are you afraid?''
36919When you meet strange men on the mountains and they say to you politely,"May I ask your name?"
36919When you see a lot of solemn people saying good- bye downstairs, do n''t you want to slide down the banister into their midst?
36919Where did the sweet soul of you go that I loved so well, and how can I live in a world where such things happen?
36919Where did you go so I could n''t find you?''
36919Who has not?
36919Who knows it better than they, poor things?
36919Why are n''t you free, and why ca n''t you make Ellen care for you?
36919Why could n''t it have been I?
36919Why did n''t you tell me to do this before?"
36919Why do such a thing?
36919Why hurry away from it?
36919Why should I count and measure love for love, instead of rejoicing with you in your work?
36919Why should I feel ashamed at having tried to make him hear me?
36919Why should I worry?"
36919Why should we waste a blessed year of our lives?''
36919Why should we waste one moment of what is so beautiful?
36919Why, Roberta, are n''t you glad?"
36919Would I joke of such a thing?
36919Would one have taken anything but one''s brother up a tree?
36919You belong to me, Ellen, do n''t you?''
36919You love him very much, do n''t you?''
36919as he did before; and then,''I''ve been waiting ever since I saw you''; and then his face turned stern, and he said,''Ellen, why did n''t you come?
36919do you answer,"Why, I am Ellen"?''
36919he asked me; and he stood still in the path and said:''Ellen, are you a coward?
36919he said,''why ca n''t you put your hand in mine and walk out into the sunset with me?
36919how could we take our happiness at some one else''s hurt?''
36919my dear, why will you make me make you such a sad gift?
36919why do women have to marry men?''
36919why,"Ellen wailed,--"why should we make them all unhappy when all you have to do is to work a month or two more?"
21876And that?
21876And what about Tom Linnet?
21876And what do they prove?
21876And you fear they will let the matter drop?
21876Any what?
21876Are any of these agents or detectives working on this case?
21876Are the shells loaded, Joe?
21876Are there many of them?
21876Are these men experienced detectives?
21876Are we too late, Miss O''Gorman?
21876But the other printing office?
21876But what''s it all about? 21876 But who''s to train us, and how could we manage to train others?"
21876But why did you ship the thing to Washington, if it is likely to prove a valuable clue?
21876But why do you attach so much importance to this matter?
21876Did he get any?
21876Did he kick on the bonds?
21876Did he say that?
21876Did n''t you hear?
21876Did you go to the fire, Josie?
21876Do I? 21876 Do n''t you get discouraged, dear, at times?"
21876Do n''t you like the war, then?
21876Do you ever sell any?
21876Do you know Abe Kauffman?
21876Do you know anyone else at the Mansion House?
21876Do you sit up all night?
21876Do you suppose the freight office in Washington would deliver the box to me, on your order?
21876Do you think it right for us to take advantage of the woman''s ignorance?
21876Do you think those are rain clouds, Mary Louise? 21876 Do-- do you think we can make people buy bonds?"
21876Does Tom still do the printing?
21876Does n''t that shame you, sir?
21876Does n''t your secret service badge give you authority?
21876Have n''t you slept well, Gran''pa?
21876Have the Dyers really bought the Dudley- Markham place?
21876Have you gone any farther, Josie?
21876Have you learned anything about the German spy plot?
21876Have you made any discoveries?
21876How about the agents of the department of justice?
21876How about your boasted department of justice, and the secret service?
21876How did it happen, Gran''pa Jim?
21876How did it happen?
21876How did you learn all that, Josie?
21876How did you lose track of Dyer?
21876How did you manage that?
21876How do you know?
21876How old is Annie?
21876How well do you know him personally, madam?
21876How''d you know?
21876How, Irene?
21876How, my dear?
21876I believe that is true, and it proves what a free country this is-- does it not? 21876 I wonder what this means?"
21876I wonder who prints your bills- of- fare?
21876I wonder why he did it?
21876If you please, miss,said Kauffman,"may I put down my arms?
21876Is Mr. Colton here?
21876Is Mr. Kasker in?
21876Is n''t he the only German in town who has denounced our going into the European war?
21876Is n''t his position a political appointment?
21876Is n''t it the duty of every patriotic person to denounce a traitor?
21876Is n''t that carrying consideration too far?
21876Is n''t the Professor rich?
21876Is that as far as you''ve gone?
21876Joe,said Josie impressively,"you know who I am, do n''t you?"
21876Joe,she said earnestly, drawing him aside,"are you going to be busy this evening?"
21876Know anybody here?
21876Like it?
21876Linnet? 21876 May I ask who you are, Miss, and how you came to be in my office?"
21876May I keep this--_thing? 21876 Mrs. Charleworth?
21876No one here knows you,whispered Mary Louise,"wo n''t you speak to me, Josie?"
21876No; one was our supervisor, Andrew Duncan--"And the other man?
21876Oh, so you are aware of that interview?
21876Oh; are you an''Tom friends?
21876Oh; the clothing man? 21876 Ought n''t we to finish with Kasker, first?"
21876Really, it looks like foreign handwriting; does n''t it?
21876Risk? 21876 Sell any brains yet?"
21876Shine, miss?
21876So Mr. Colton is still the head of the company?
21876Suspenders? 21876 The proposition sounds interesting, Irene, and if carried through would doubtless be valuable, but is it practical?"
21876Then how did it get printed?
21876Then it was not an accident?
21876Then neither of the three had purchased any bonds until then?
21876Was he properly qualified?
21876Was n''t New York good enough for you?
21876Was n''t there any plot, then?
21876Was such secrecy necessary?
21876Well, do you know why? 21876 Well, here''s the desk,"said Chief Farnum,"but where are those important papers, Miss O''Gorman?"
21876Well, then, ca n''t this demon be arrested and punished?
21876Well, what about it?
21876Well, what will it cost to fix it up?
21876Well, where''d he get the aunt? 21876 Well, who else did you find disloyal?"
21876Were they clerks, or grocers-- customers?
21876What arguments can you use that we have disregarded?
21876What connection do you suspect?
21876What connection with your enterprise has Tom Linnet?
21876What did you do that for?
21876What did you think of Jake Kasker''s kind of patriotism?
21876What has that old desk to do with-- with--"The German spy plot? 21876 What is it, Gran''pa Jim?"
21876What is it? 21876 What is it?"
21876What is the business of John O''Gorman, your father?
21876What is wrong? 21876 What line is that, Josie?"
21876What''s the matter, dear?
21876What''s the meaning of all the flags, Jake?
21876What''s up?
21876What, only one string to your bow of distrust? 21876 What, then, would you suggest?"
21876When did he intend to go to Washington?
21876Where are they stored?
21876Where are you from?
21876Where are you stopping? 21876 Where?"
21876Who is he?
21876Who is it, and what was he doing?
21876Who is little Annie Boyle?
21876Who likes war, then? 21876 Who?"
21876Why ask questions that I ca n''t answer? 21876 Why did he not show you the projectile before?"
21876Why do n''t you start a hotel of your own?
21876Why do you wonder that?
21876Why not?
21876Why should I give something for nothing?
21876Will you please order your man to get the projectile?
21876Wo n''t it be better to let the authorities deal with him?
21876Would three thousand satisfy you?
21876You did?
21876You fear they will not be able to apprehend the criminal?
21876You mean that you_ wo n''t_ help us, I suppose?
21876You say your father is away from home at present?
21876You selling something?
21876You think I wrote it?
21876You think that, sir?
21876You think you''re kiddin''me, do n''t you? 21876 You wo n''t tell me?"
21876You, child?
21876You? 21876 You?
21876And if he don''t-- if those cursed Germans put an end to him-- then folks will say,''See Jake Kasker over there?
21876And the Professor?"
21876And why?"
21876Are you ill?"
21876Are you quite sure?"
21876Are you sure, Josie?"
21876But perhaps it is something I can do?"
21876But suppose we redeem a few of them, is n''t it worth while?
21876But what becomes of the money, finally?
21876But-- has he really gone?
21876But-- think, girls!--who is known to be against the war, and pro- German?
21876But-- what else has he been paid for?"
21876But_ himmel!_ We do n''t let our kiddies freeze for lack of clothes, do we?
21876Ca n''t one of the clerks attend to you?
21876Ca n''t someone think of something?"
21876Ca n''t you come home, to- night, and have a good talk with me?
21876Ca n''t you guess how I dream of those poor devils I sent to their death in the airplane job?
21876Can we be too careful in these days of espionage?
21876Can you figure that out, Abe Kauffman?
21876Did Jake Kasker buy any of you?"
21876Did n''t I say two different people addressed the circulars in disguised handwriting?
21876Do I, Jake?
21876Do n''t my Jakie''s blood put my name on America''s honor roll?
21876Do n''t you remember how many times I''ve foozled?"
21876Do you mind my having it-- and the envelope?"
21876Do you think that would be right?"
21876Do you think the days of graft are past and gone?
21876Do you wonder they forgot he was once a milk- man, or that every resident of Dorfield swelled with pride at the very sight of him?
21876Does humanity, which bears the burden?
21876Dyer?"
21876Finally she asked:"Do the police know?"
21876Go on, Josie; what happened next?"
21876Ha, ha; pretty good, eh?"
21876Had he been warned of Linnet''s defection?
21876Had he means of communicating with Dyer unknown to Josie?
21876Have politicians become honest now that they are handling untold sums?
21876Have you attended the trial of those suspected of the bomb outrage?"
21876He could n''t afford it, could he?"
21876He looked up, swept her with a glance and replied:"What''s the matter?
21876He saw the point and answered with a broad smile:"Is that the alternative, young lady?
21876He was very bitter in his remarks, but in his office were two other men who remonstrated with him and--""What were the two men doing there?"
21876Herring if he knew him to be disloyal in this, our country''s greatest crisis?
21876Herring?"
21876How are you getting along on the case?"
21876How do I know you do n''t get a run on suspenders some time?
21876How far are you from the hub, Josie?"
21876How much did the supervisor invest in bonds?"
21876How much did they subscribe last night?"
21876How''s the suspender stock?"
21876I may not accomplish anything, but you''d like me to try, would n''t you?"
21876I said, did n''t I, that it wo n''t hurt my pocket?
21876I suppose you can pay in advance?"
21876I wonder if he knows anything at all, or if I could pump it out of him if he does?
21876If there''s an aunt, she''s some relation to the rest of the family, so why did n''t she leave them some money, as well as Tom?"
21876Is 43 taken, also?"
21876Is it just luck, I wonder, or has fate taken a hand in the game?
21876Is it not so?"
21876Is it not so?"
21876Is n''t he like most of the rabble, thinking what he''s told to think and saying what he''s told to say?"
21876Is n''t it better to lose a little now, for the sake of future winnings, than to sacrifice the past and future and be reduced to poverty?
21876Is n''t that true, Gran''pa Jim?"
21876Is n''t this Miss Annie Boyle?"
21876It would be an awful thing to accuse one unjustly of such a dastardly act, would n''t it?
21876Josie was thoughtful for a time, and after the colonel had resumed his book, she asked Mary Louise:"Who was Mrs. Dyer, before her marriage?"
21876Looking at him musingly, she asked:"Are they making munitions now, at the steel works?"
21876May we depend upon your bank to fulfill your promises, and carry those bond buyers who wish to make time payments?"
21876McGill?"
21876Must one or the other happen?
21876No disloyal words from the Professor or the supervisor?"
21876Now, if Dyer is on his way to Washington, what did last night''s secret meeting mean?
21876Now, then, how does my idea strike you?"
21876Presently Josie approached Mary Louise and asked:"What will you take for the pedestal- desk-- just as it stands?"
21876Query: Who staked Tom?
21876Stop it?
21876That would be worth while, would n''t it?"
21876To equip a regiment with the articles you mention would cost a mint of money, and where''s the money coming from, and how are we to get it?"
21876Was this meeting, on which they had so greatly depended, destined to prove a failure, after all?
21876What I know frightens me-- even_ me!_ Ca n''t you wait and-- trust me?"
21876What are you doing, girl?"
21876What are you doing?
21876What could you do with the clumsy thing?"
21876What did he do?"
21876What''s the matter?"
21876When you were selling Liberty Bonds, did you meet with no objectors?"
21876Who would refuse a group of young girls-- earnest and enthusiastic girls?
21876Who''s this, Jake?
21876Why do n''t you do the job yourself?"
21876Will our millionaire government contractors become billionaires when the money-- our money-- is spent?
21876Will you please tell me, Mrs. Charleworth, what connection you have with Mr. Kauffman, or with his-- projectile?"
21876Will you tell me, Mrs. Charleworth, what you know about that man?"
21876Your daughter?"
21876and so-- what is there to do but hold up our hands?"
21876exclaimed Lucile Neal,"and what could the person hope to gain by it?"
21876exclaimed Mary Louise, with ready sympathy;"I hope he-- he is n''t dead?"
21876he exclaimed,"who saved you?"
21876she cried exultantly, and the old colonel''s eyes sparkled as he replied:"That makes our great mass- meeting look pretty small; does n''t it, my dear?
23644''Supposedly lost?''
23644About what?
23644And is that the reason you stopped playing?
23644And what did he bring?
23644Are n''t you and father perfect dears to let me have it, though?
23644Are we about to be attacked by the enemy? 23644 Are you a stranger in Sanford, my dear?
23644Are you and Constance going to take Charlie to the matinee to- morrow, dear?
23644Are you coming back to school to finish the year, Constance?
23644Are you going home to luncheon now?
23644Are you going to practice this afternoon?
23644Are you sure you feel well, Marjorie?
23644But how did you happen to know so much about it?
23644But how will everyone know who is who after the unmasking? 23644 But what if Miss Merton sees one?"
23644But what is it and where is it held?
23644But where is Connie, dear?
23644But who told you the sophomores would be forbidden to play?
23644But why should she wish to keep us from going?
23644But, tell me, Jerry, what did you hear about Constance?
23644By the way, do you play basketball?
23644Ca n''t he be cured?
23644Ca n''t you come with me to dinner?
23644Can he play?
23644Can we begin now?
23644Can you ever forgive me?
23644Can you swim?
23644Charlie?
23644Confess you were hiding things from me, were n''t you?
23644Constance,she breathed,"wo n''t you please, please tell me all about it?"
23644Did Constance Stevens find it?
23644Did I hear someone laugh?
23644Did I not see you at practice with the freshmen shortly before the game?
23644Did Laurie ask you to dance to- night?
23644Did Nora bake chocolate cake to- day?
23644Did n''t Constance tell you she was going away? 23644 Did you see that pretty girl standing across from the school as we came out?"
23644Do n''t I look nice in this suit?
23644Do n''t you remember,''Four Fat Friars Fanning a Fainting Fly''? 23644 Do you mean to say that you believe those miserable girls?"
23644Do you play basketball?
23644Do you suppose anyone will mistake us for faculty?
23644Do you want to get rid of me, Mary? 23644 Do you-- would you-- could I be a soldier, too, Marjorie?
23644Has anything happened?
23644Has n''t he gone to sleep yet?
23644Has the novelty of Sanford High worn off so soon?
23644Have n''t you seen father since I left? 23644 Have n''t you your invitation?"
23644Have n''t you, Irma?
23644Have you found it? 23644 Have you heard anything new?"
23644Have you met any other girls?
23644Have you thought of a way? 23644 Have you your grammar school certificate with you?"
23644How about 9.15 English Comp?
23644How are you, dear?
23644How could she?
23644How dare you? 23644 How did you like that?"
23644How did you like the game, Captain?
23644How do you feel, Marcia?
23644How goes it, Lieutenant?
23644How is Charlie to- day?
23644I made good time, did n''t I?
23644I wonder if I really did leave it at home?
23644I-- I ca n''t talk about it now, but may I come to see you to- morrow afternoon? 23644 Is Sanford High going to give a party?"
23644Is n''t it a beautiful play?
23644Is n''t it, though? 23644 Is n''t that a shame?"
23644Is there a band at the theatre?
23644It looks the same, but is it?
23644It means a whole lot to you to be secretary, does n''t it, Marcia?
23644It was too funny for anything, was n''t it, Muriel?
23644It''s a splendid game, is n''t it?
23644It''s dreadful, is n''t it?
23644It''s quite perfect, is n''t it?
23644Know what?
23644Marcia, how did you obtain my butterfly from Mignon?
23644Marjorie,the Mary girl''s tones were strained and wistful,"do you really think it is wonderful?"
23644May I buy the water- color paper for the apples to- morrow, Captain?
23644May I wear my best suit and hat, Mother?
23644Miss Dean, are you perfectly sure of what you say?
23644Not even Laurie?
23644Oh, Constance, can you ever forgive me?
23644Oh, Mr. Stevens,cried Marjorie,"where is Constance?
23644Oh, did n''t I? 23644 Oh, do you believe that?"
23644Santa Claus did come to see Charlie, did n''t he?
23644Say, Marjorie, did n''t you say that you''d lost your butterfly pin?
23644Shall I tell mother you are coming?
23644Shall I throw the old thing into the fire, Connie?
23644Shall I-- had I-- do you wish me to go with you to Miss Archer?
23644Then nobody actually said a word about it?
23644Then who did?
23644Then why,Miss Archer had asked sharply,"did you ask her to resign?"
23644Was n''t it nice of Miss Archer to ask us to sit here?
23644We are going to be friends forever and always, are n''t we, Marcia?
23644Well, did she snap your head off?
23644What Hallowe''en party?
23644What are those girls over there in the red paper hats and big red bows going to do?
23644What are you going as?
23644What are you going to do this afternoon, dear?
23644What are you going to say to her?
23644What are you going to wear, Constance?
23644What did I tell you?
23644What did Irma say?
23644What did you do?
23644What did you pick out for me?
23644What do you care what she thinks as long as she hunts up your invitations?
23644What do you mean, Constance?
23644What do you mean?
23644What do you think of that Stevens girl to- night, Mignon?
23644What do you think? 23644 What for?"
23644What girls comprise the freshman team?
23644What has happened to you?
23644What is all this commotion about, Lieutenant?
23644What is she talking about?
23644What is that?
23644What is the matter, Constance?
23644What studies are you going to take? 23644 What would I do without you?
23644What would he say, I wonder, if he knew? 23644 What''s happened?"
23644What''s the trouble between you and Constance? 23644 When is it to be?"
23644When will she return?
23644When you find him, you''ll be sure to tell him all about me, wo n''t you, Marjorie?
23644Where are you going?
23644Where did the other come from? 23644 Where did you hear that bit of news?"
23644Where were you on Thursday?
23644Where-- where did you come from? 23644 Where-- where-- did you get that pin?"
23644Who asked you to resign?
23644Who has charge of the invitations?
23644Why do you ask me that?
23644Why do you say that?
23644Why, General, who told you?
23644Why?
23644Will you eat your salad or must I exercise my stern authority?
23644Will you forgive me, Marjorie?
23644Will you go to Miss Archer with us on Monday?
23644Will you walk down to the drugstore with me, Marjorie?
23644Wo n''t she be surprised? 23644 Would you care if I-- if we did n''t talk about Constance?"
23644Would you go with me to her home?
23644You are sure I wo n''t make your head ache with my chatter?
23644You have played on a team?
23644You have the''Jungle Books,''have n''t you? 23644 You just made up all that stuff?"
23644You met another girl, at noon, did you not, Miss Dean?
23644You remember the practice game we played against the sophomores last week? 23644 You sent them the list of names, did n''t you?
23644You''ll come over to- morrow and see how happy you''ve made Charlie and all of us, wo n''t you?
23644You''ll give me the next dance, wo n''t you, Marjorie?
23644You''ll surely write to me, Marjorie?
23644Young woman, do you mean to contradict me?
23644A dignified little voice said, stiffly,"Will you please allow me to get my hat?"
23644A tense little figure clad in apricot satin confronted her, crying out in tones too plainly audible to those standing near,"Where is my bracelet?
23644A thief, do you hear?
23644Aloud she said:"Did you know before Constance went to New York that she intended going?"
23644Are we going to share our locker and our troubles and our pleasures?"
23644But do you suppose her mother will allow her to accept such an expensive gift?
23644But what do you care?
23644But"--Marjorie stopped short in the middle of the veranda--"what do you suppose became of Mignon?"
23644CHAPTER IV SANFORD''S LATEST FRESHMAN"Will you tell me the way to the principal''s office, please?"
23644Confess, you did see her; now, did n''t you?"
23644Could it be true that Constance, the girl she had fought for, the girl for whose sake she had braved class ostracism, had deliberately stolen her pin?
23644Could she believe her eyes?
23644Dean?"
23644Dean?"
23644Did Miss La Salle accuse you of taking her bracelet that night?"
23644Did it seem strange to her after a big city high school?
23644Did it seem to you as though Mignon deliberately pushed against Ellen Seymour?"
23644Did n''t he tell you?"
23644Did you know that Mignon never lost it, Marcia?
23644Do n''t you love them?"
23644Do n''t you remember?"
23644Do n''t you think I ought to make someone else happy when I have the chance?
23644Do n''t you think that a nice plan?"
23644Do you play?"
23644Do you remember a black- haired, black- eyed girl in the French class this morning?
23644Do you understand?"
23644Ees eet that you like the French, Mademoiselle Dean?"
23644Had she met any other girls besides themselves?
23644Had she, Marjorie, been wise to avow unswerving loyalty to a stranger, and all because she looked like Mary Raymond?
23644Have you met her?
23644Her butterfly, her pretty talisman, where was it?
23644How about it, Captain?"
23644How can she be so cruel?
23644How can some girls be so silly?
23644How could she bear to play on a team when three of the members had decided to drop her acquaintance?
23644How could you be so cruel and dishonorable?"
23644How dare you insult me?"
23644How did she like Sanford?
23644I do n''t like to mention things, but for your own sake wo n''t you try to do what is right about the pin?
23644I like the outside of the school, but will I like the inside?
23644I wonder what I could go as?"
23644If I guess correctly will you tell me?"
23644If the record of their class read badly at the end of their freshman year, whose fault would it be?
23644If, then, you like it, you weel study your lessons, n''est pas?"
23644In a voice shaking with indignation she turned to those surrounding her and said,"Will you please go on dancing?
23644Is Miss Archer in her private office?"
23644Is it a requisition for new uniforms?
23644Is n''t that enough to make me happy for one day at least?"
23644It is right to share one''s spoils with a comrade, is n''t it?"
23644It''s a gorgeous party, is n''t it, Hal?"
23644May I give her this darling blue one?"
23644Oh, yes, did Miss Archer tell you that we report in the study hall at half- past eight o''clock on Monday and Friday mornings?
23644Or is the post about to move and is that a packing case?"
23644Purposely, to make sure she was right, she said boldly:"Miss Dean, will you go to the basketball tryout with us on Friday afternoon?"
23644Say,"she looked blankly at Marjorie,"do you suppose it''s our duty to go to Miss Archer and tell her what we saw?"
23644She did not like to criticize them, but were they truly honorable?
23644She is a delightful girl, is n''t she?"
23644She turned a pair of grave, deep- set eyes upon the tall girl and said, pleasantly:"Well, Ellen, what can I do for you this morning?"
23644She was unusually quiet at dinner, however, and her mother inquired anxiously if she were ill."Did you wear your new coat this afternoon?"
23644Should she explain?
23644Should she hand the secretary her resignation instead of mailing it?
23644Should she tell her mother of the disagreeable ending of her first day?
23644Still, they had not chosen her to play on the team; why, then, should she resign?
23644Still, was it right to allow personal grudges to warp one''s loyalty to one''s class?
23644Suppose we wait until Monday and see?
23644The freshman class is planning a lot of good times for this winter, and, of course, you want to be in them, too, do n''t you?"
23644Then as though determined to evade further questioning, she asked:"May I go shopping with you?"
23644To return to why I sent for you, you understand the game of basketball, do you not?"
23644Was Constance hurt because she had not received her invitation?
23644Was n''t it nice in him?"
23644Were you a student of Franklin High School?
23644What character do you intend to represent?"
23644What have you done with it?"
23644What if she liked them but they did not like her?
23644What if she were one of those persons one reads of in books whom continued poverty had made dishonest, or perhaps she was a kleptomaniac?
23644What if the new girls proved to be neither likable nor companionable?
23644What is Constance going to wear?
23644What made you come here?"
23644What made you keep it a secret?"
23644What mother is not interested in her daughter''s school fun and parties?
23644What studies had you begun at B----?"
23644What subjects had she selected?
23644What''s the use of so much formality among team- mates?"
23644When Geraldine had nodded good- bye at her street, and the two were alone, she asked:"What did you mean by comparing yourself to a soldier, Marjorie?"
23644When will we receive our invitations?"
23644Where in the world did you find it, Marcia?"
23644Why ca n''t I have it the night before Thanksgiving?
23644Why did n''t her class come out?
23644Why do n''t you resign?"
23644Why not ask her to dinner some night this week, Marjorie?"
23644Will you do it?"
23644Will you go first and announce supper?"
23644Wo n''t Constance be glad?
23644Wo n''t that be nice?"
23644Wo n''t you please tell me yours?"
23644Wo n''t you try me until the end of the first term?"
23644You know that, do n''t you, Mary?"
23644You were across the street from school on three different days, were n''t you?"
23644asked Marjorie, with an earnestness that made her father say teasingly,"Are you going to enlist in his cause as his business manager?"
23644exclaimed Marjorie, her eyes sparkling,"do you mean Miss Fielding?"
23644exclaimed the tall girl, eagerly, with an impulsive step forward,"you have n''t forbidden basketball this year, have you?
5660About Sarah? 5660 Again, father?"
5660Am I that?
5660And do n''t you get dreadfully lonesome at night?
5660And so?
5660And the book was taken by someone?
5660And what do you think of it, Gran''pa Jim?
5660And when will he be back?
5660And you say it is missing?
5660And your Department knows of its existence?
5660Are n''t you his granddaughter?
5660Are you really a colonel?
5660Are you sure?
5660But what was it about?
5660But why should he wish to hide?
5660But why, if these pictures are really harmful, does Mr. Welland exhibit them at his theatre?
5660But you will consider this conversation confidential, will you not?
5660By the way,said the little man,"is n''t there a place called Bigbee''s, near here?"
5660Ca n''t I stay here, with you?
5660Can you manage your grip alone?
5660Cipher, eh?
5660Could it be used?
5660Could you prove that statement?
5660Did n''t Gran''pa Jim send me any letter, or-- any information at all?
5660Did n''t I tell you?
5660Did n''t you recognize me?
5660Do n''t Will Morrison have a car? 5660 Do n''t you know?"
5660Do n''t you think Agatha Lord stole that missing book?
5660Do you believe my grandfather is a bad man?
5660Do you cook your own meals?
5660Do you hear that, Gran''pa Jim?
5660Do you know his name to be Weatherby-- or is it Hathaway?
5660Do you mean that you WILL not?
5660Do you not know?
5660Do you remember our referring to an old letter, the other day?
5660Do you remember the address of the Conants, at Dorfield?
5660Do you remember your father?
5660Does n''t Irene know?
5660Does n''t it seem to reflect on our characters?
5660Does she-- eh-- snoop around much?
5660Drive?
5660Eh? 5660 Feel better?"
5660Field glasses, eh? 5660 Going far?"
5660Has the funeral been held?
5660Have you any idea of redeeming it?
5660Have you any-- any-- news of Gran''pa Jim?
5660Have you been eating and sleeping here?
5660Have you had breakfast?
5660Have you your notebook here?
5660He did n''t say where he was going?
5660Heh? 5660 Here?"
5660Hev ye got a order from Will Morrison, in writin''?
5660Honor bright?
5660How about this girl''s board money?
5660How are you, partner? 5660 How could they go, Uncle?"
5660How did you learn that?
5660How do you know?
5660How do you like being a sleuth?
5660How fer?
5660How kin I? 5660 How much do you want to borrow on this lot?"
5660How?
5660I wonder who that can be?
5660I wonder why it has chosen us for its victims?
5660I, Miss Lord?
5660Important?
5660In the Lodge?
5660In what way did they make it uncomfortable for you?
5660In what way?
5660In what way?
5660Indeed?
5660Is it possible that an innocent man would change his name and hide, rather than face an unjust accusation?
5660Is it really so late?
5660Is n''t he being shadowed?
5660Is that Bigbee''s, over yonder?
5660Is that true?
5660Is this action approved by your mother, or-- or-- by your grandfather?
5660Is this straight?
5660Known to the department?
5660May I get her something, Aunt Hannah?
5660Me? 5660 Me?
5660Meanin''Talbot? 5660 Miss Lord?"
5660Nor you, Aunt Hannah?
5660Now?
5660Oh; has he a tank of gasoline here?
5660Oh; so she hired you a year in advance and did n''t tell you, afterward, that she was going abroad?
5660Oh; then you have heard from Gran''pa Jim?
5660Oh; then you know his address?
5660Or leave any address?
5660Seems like a real sport-- fer a gal-- don''t she?
5660So you do not approve of the pictures, Mary Louise?
5660Suppose we let Miss Irene read it?
5660That proves, of course, that Gran''pa Jim and mother are in California, But how did the detective know that?
5660The Hathaway case?
5660The letter is authentic, then?
5660The letter which I found in the book?
5660The tires are in the cellar, you say? 5660 Then how dare you even suggest it?"
5660Then some of you intercepted the telegram?
5660Then where are they?
5660Then who could have sent you here?
5660Then why did your grandfather run away?
5660Then why do n''t you prove it by showing me the letter?
5660Then why not do so and by restoring Mary Louise to her grandfather make them both happy?
5660Then you are Government agents?
5660Then-- has anything happened to-- to-- mother?
5660There are no near neighbors, are there?
5660There are some new developments, then, O''Gorman?
5660There can be no reason in the world, Mary Louise,she averred,"why your private affairs are of any interest to outsiders, except--""Well, Irene?"
5660This is an astonishing change in your life, is it not? 5660 Was n''t that the book you found the letter in?"
5660Well, what''s that got to do with this insulting order to stay in evenings?
5660Well; what then, Miss Lord?
5660What DID he say?
5660What are you doing here?
5660What are your affairs to Agatha Lord?
5660What boy?
5660What caused her affliction?
5660What cushion do you refer to?
5660What did it say?
5660What do YOU think of it, Mary Louise?
5660What do they imagine he has done that is wrong?
5660What do you mean by running away?
5660What do you think, Mary Louise,demanded Jennie, as the girl paused before them,"of this latest outrage?"
5660What do you want?
5660What for?
5660What is on that black ribbon around your neck?
5660What letter are you talking about?
5660What letter is this that you have referred to?
5660What number do you want?
5660What outrage, Jen?
5660What sort of girls are they?
5660What''s the use firin''thet high- brow stuff at me?
5660What''s up?
5660What''s wrong with them?
5660What''s your idea about it, Mary Louise?
5660When did he go?
5660When did he say he''d send it?
5660When?
5660Where did Mr. Conant find it?
5660Where did the boy go?
5660Where is Mr. Morrison''s man?
5660Where is he?
5660Where on earth have you come from?
5660Where?
5660Who are the Morrisons?
5660Who are you, Miss Lord?
5660Who are you?
5660Who are you?
5660Who is Agatha Lord, and why did they send her here as principal, with Nan as her maid?
5660Who? 5660 Why are you our neighbor?"
5660Why did n''t they come, then?
5660Why did n''t you obey me?
5660Why did n''t you tell me?
5660Why do n''t you make your own discoveries?
5660Why do n''t you put on the tires and use the car?
5660Why has he been hunted all these years?
5660Why not, my dear?
5660Why not? 5660 Why not?"
5660Why should she?
5660Why should you attach any importance to that?
5660Why?
5660Will you ask her to send my trunk?
5660Will you come with me to my room?
5660Will you ride with me to Millbank to- morrow?
5660Wo n''t Nan be wild, though, when she finds I''ve beaten her and won the case for Hathaway?
5660Would n''t, eh? 5660 Would you be safe in that out- of- the- way place?"
5660Yes?
5660Yes?
5660Yes?
5660You do n''t, eh? 5660 You refuse, then, to let me go?"
5660You''ve read the letter, I suppose, and are now making fun of me for trying to get it? 5660 Your report?"
5660After a time she asked:"What are you and Aunt Polly going to do, Uncle?"
5660And, Uncle Peter, what, do you think of Miss Lord?"
5660And, by the way, have you noticed anything suspicious about our hired girl?"
5660And, even if detectives were placed here to watch your actions, they would n''t be interested in spying upon ME, would they?"
5660Are n''t they here, with you?"
5660Are n''t you glad?"
5660Are you Talbot''s boy?"
5660At dinner she asked:"Did you take a book from my room to- day, Mary Louise?"
5660Bub''s hesitation vanished, but he asked anxiously:"Tain''t go''n''to do no harm to them gals thet''s stoppin''here, is it?"
5660But how did he happen to be there?
5660But she quickly controlled her surprise and asked in a calm voice, as she faced him:"What''s up, O''Gorman?"
5660But tell me, why did n''t you nab Hathaway at Dorfield?"
5660But where had she heard the name of Hathaway before?
5660But where?"
5660But-- see here, Dad-- are you still working for the Department?"
5660CHAPTER V OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION"And you say they are gone?"
5660Can not the law make a mistake, Aunt Hannah?"
5660Can you accept her judgment, Mary Louise?
5660Can you feed me?"
5660Can you steadfastly ignore any aspersions that may be cast upon my good name?"
5660Conant?"
5660Conant?"
5660Conant?"
5660Could it be true?
5660D''ye know where Mark''s Peak is?"
5660Did it belong to any of her schoolgirl friends?
5660Did n''t he leave an address?"
5660Did n''t you say Will had a man for caretaker?
5660Did n''t you see it posted on the blackboard this morning?
5660Did the lawyer''s wife know more than she had admitted?
5660Do n''t you realize what you''re up against?"
5660Do you admit the truth of the statements contained in this letter?"
5660Do you drive your own car?"
5660Do you know how?"
5660Do you know what we''re after?"
5660Do you think you can follow these instructions?"
5660Do you think,"she added,"that the Secret Service employs female detectives?"
5660Do you understand all this, Mary Louise?"
5660Do you understand that?"
5660Ever hear of O''Gorman?"
5660Had he not told her to have faith in him, whatever happened?
5660Had she accidentally stumbled upon him, or had he purposely placed himself in her path to assure her that escape from him was impossible?
5660Hathaway?"
5660Have you considered how a knowledge of the truth will affect her?"
5660Have you ever heard of''harlequin fate''?
5660Have you no mercy-- no compassion?"
5660He glared at her with a scowl for a moment and then demanded:"Where''s Hathaway?"
5660Her toilet was almost complete when Mary Louise suddenly exclaimed:"Why, what has become of your chair cushion?"
5660How about that letter?
5660How did the girl-- Mary Louise-- take her mother''s death?"
5660How do you account for all that, Irene?"
5660How have you been getting along?"
5660I can not help that, can I?"
5660I felt like giving her a good shaking, did n''t you?
5660I object to being hurried, do n''t you, Mary Louise?"
5660I suppose your family left Beverly this morning, by the early train?"
5660I wonder what drove us from it?"
5660If he writes you, or you learn what has become of him, will you tell me?"
5660If so, why was everyone trying to keep her in the dark?
5660If they arrested him, do you think they would put him in jail, Aunt Hannah?"
5660Indeed, his first words proved this, for he asked sternly:"Why are you here?"
5660Is it necessary for me to find it?"
5660Is my room ready?"
5660Is n''t that a glad prospect?
5660Is she in Hathaway''s pay?"
5660Is there any oil?"
5660It was Peter Conant who faced the speaker and demanded:"What do you mean by that statement?"
5660It was a strange girl, who asked in a meek voice:"Is this Hillcrest Lodge?"
5660Lord?"
5660May I have a lift?"
5660May I take this book home, Irene?
5660Me?
5660Mr. Hathaway had been growing uneasy and now addressed Officer O''Gorman in a protesting voice:"Is this reading necessary, sir?"
5660Now, tell me, how''s mother?"
5660Or even a persecuted grandfather?
5660Shall we disregard the order, and do as we please, or be namby- pambies and submit to the outrage?
5660She must have overheard the conversation in the living room, for she came beside the lawyer and asked:"When did Mrs. Burrows die?"
5660She-- eh-- was under a-- eh-- under a nervous strain; a severe nervous strain, you know, and--""Is she dead?"
5660Should she prove disloyal just because a brutal officer and an irresponsible newspaper editor had branded her dear grandfather a criminal?
5660So why should n''t I be kind to a helpless, unfortunate girl?"
5660So you know about the letter, do you?"
5660Then Agatha and I are out of it?"
5660Then she said with a sigh of relief:"It''s a queer world, is n''t it, Mr. Conant?
5660Then, turning to O''Gorman, she continued:"So Hathaway''s coming, is he?
5660Want to take a ride now?"
5660We''re friends, then?"
5660We''re to be friends, are we not?
5660Wha''d''ye think I am-- a KID?"
5660What book is missing?"
5660What did Irene do with the letter?"
5660What do you wish to say to me, Miss Lord?"
5660What should there be about Sarah Judd to frighten anyone?"
5660What the Sam Hill is they to be lonesome over?"
5660What''s a twisted ankle or a shriveled leg to do with happiness?
5660When did Mrs. Morrison tell you that?"
5660When they came to the garage the lawyer halted, more winded than Bub, and demanded sharply:"What is needed to put the car in shape to run?"
5660Where did he go?"
5660Where is Hathaway-- or Weatherby-- or whatever he calls himself?"
5660Where is Mrs. Morrison, please?"
5660Where is he?"
5660Where is he?"
5660Where shall we go, Gran''pa Jim?"
5660Where''s Nan?"
5660Where, then, COULD she go?
5660Who is she, O''Gorman, and why did the Chief cut under us by planting Sarah Judd in the Conants''household?"
5660Who knew about that letter?"
5660Who wrote the letter?
5660Why ca n''t you give me an honest tip?
5660Why did n''t you stick it out?
5660Why did n''t you tell me of this before I left the Lodge?"
5660Why had n''t she thought of this simple method of communication before?
5660Why not keep her?"
5660Why not?"
5660Why should n''t we accept Will Morrison''s proposition to occupy it?"
5660Will you allow me to sit down awhile?
5660Will you make the proper arrangements, Peter?"
5660Will you promise to do this?"
5660With hesitation she asked:"Do you suppose you could find him for me?"
5660Yet why were they closeted in the library so long, and how could the meeting with that insolent stranger affect Colonel Weatherby so strongly?
5660Yet-- what did she know of Hathaway?
5660You have decided to stay, then?"
5660cried Hathaway indignantly, starting to his feet;"how dare you throw the burden on this poor child?
5660she cried admiringly, as she looked at her bonds,"What next, Nan?"
43584A big city is grand, is n''t it?
43584A detective?
43584About somebody''s Christmas present? 43584 And did you enjoy your dinner?"
43584And does everybody call you by both names?
43584And were the other watches stolen the same day?
43584And were there any transients here at that time?
43584And what became of the girls?
43584And what good will your career be to you then?
43584And what is its name?
43584And you believed her?
43584And you could go home?
43584Anything gone?
43584Are the Weinbergers still here?
43584Are there any empty houses she might have rented?
43584Are you a guest at the hotel, miss?
43584Are you responsible for this?
43584Are you sure you''re all right?
43584Because we''re such pretty girls?
43584But I do n''t have to write my name in my books the minute I get them, do I?
43584But how did you get out of that house?
43584But how did you happen to have the key, Margaret?
43584But if Mrs. Ferguson really is a crook, why should she write all her plans to a prisoner, when she would know that the letter would be censored?
43584But she feels encouraged since you found two of the thieves, does n''t she?
43584But what are you going to do?
43584But what finally led you to suspect her?
43584But where is she?
43584But why should she hide? 43584 But why?"
43584But with that change at the Junction, we''d have to wait all night, should n''t we, Daddy?
43584But you did n''t lose anything, did you?
43584But you really do n''t think you''ll do dangerous things again, do you, Mary Lou?
43584Can I have your help?
43584Can I help you?
43584Can I see you tonight?
43584Can we go now, Constable?
43584Can we have a doctor immediately?
43584Can you climb that hill, Max?
43584Can you get me a photographer?
43584Can you imagine me-- one lone fellow-- in that dining room full of dames? 43584 Can you take me to the constable?
43584Could I see the manager?
43584Could n''t we break in?
43584Could n''t you arrest her?
43584Could we take a mechanic to fix my car, too?
43584Could you describe her?
43584Did he have a gun?
43584Did n''t Margaret say anything in her letter about how she was getting on or what she was doing?
43584Did n''t Mrs. Ferguson tell you?
43584Did n''t she send her address?
43584Did n''t you write to her?
43584Did she give you a salary?
43584Did she hear from her daughter?
43584Did that man open the door for you?
43584Did you advertise?
43584Did you fellows really get it?
43584Did you get your salary-- your twenty- five bucks?
43584Did you girls ever meet a girl named Margaret Detweiler, from Riverside? 43584 Did you have a good time, dear?"
43584Did you have a good time?
43584Did you search for the burglar in her room too?
43584Did you see anybody?
43584Did you talk to Miss Stoddard?
43584Do n''t you want to think it over another day? 43584 Do you feel nervous after last night?
43584Do you mean to say that you did steal, Margaret?
43584Do you still have the envelope?
43584Do you think the snow''s packed hard enough?
43584Do you think there''s any chance of your getting home for Christmas?
43584Do you think you''ll be back tonight?
43584Do you want the names of the maids?
43584Does she know that you suspect her daughter, Mary Louise?
43584Does she play?
43584Even her own mother''s watch?
43584Had n''t we better go back to my house, where it''s warm, till your car is fixed, Miss Gay?
43584Has anything been stolen since their arrival?
43584Has anything happened since I left?
43584Have you ever stayed at Stoddard House before?
43584Have you seen the girls-- Pauline Brooks and Mary Green?
43584Here? 43584 How about Miss Stoddard?"
43584How about my money?
43584How are you? 43584 How are you?"
43584How can I tell them what has happened? 43584 How did her mother take it?"
43584How did they get the money-- it was five hundred dollars, was n''t it?--so soon?
43584How did you know I''d be so glad to see you?
43584How did you know, Mary Lou?
43584How did your entertainment go?
43584How many watches?
43584How much do you charge?
43584How old a woman is she?
43584How''s the head?
43584I suppose Mrs. Hilliard told you?
43584I suppose it will be all right, then,agreed Mrs. Hilliard reluctantly...."What are your immediate plans, dear?"
43584I understand you want to ask me about Miss Detweiler?
43584I----"You been in the house now?
43584If Hortense Weinberger really is married,said Mary Louise,"do n''t you suppose her mother will hear about it tomorrow?
43584In the hotel? 43584 Is Center Square far away?"
43584Is Miss Brooks here?
43584Is Mr. Hayden here?
43584Is n''t that where you got that blow on your head?
43584Is she any relation of the founder?
43584Is that what you came here for, Max Miller?
43584Is there a Mrs. Ferguson staying here?
43584Is this the stamp album?
43584Is your aunt''s place at Center Square?
43584It''s all right now, is n''t it, Daddy?
43584Mary Lou,he asked,"you''re not doing any more detective stuff, are you?
43584Mary Louise, could you do an errand for me? 43584 Max and Norman?"
43584May I go to the hotel with you?
43584May I offer my congratulations?
43584May I sit with you, Miss Gay?
43584Meet me here in an hour?
43584Men are helpful sometimes, are n''t they?
43584Mrs. Ferguson-- is she in jail too?
43584Must we use handcuffs?
43584Never at Stoddard House?
43584Now the great question is: would you want to give up your holiday for this purpose? 43584 Now, can you tell me just what was stolen?"
43584Now, what do you want a photographer for?
43584Now, what will your plans be for tomorrow?
43584Of course, it will be late, but I''ll give you your other present first, so you would n''t mind that, would you, Mary Lou?
43584Oh, Mary Lou, did you take them?
43584Oh, how can I ever thank you enough?
43584Or have you an appointment?
43584Ready, Daddy?
43584Recently?
43584Sha n''t I ask the Walder girls to take you along? 43584 Shall I?"
43584She never came back here to Stoddard House?
43584She owes you money?
43584She was n''t home all summer, was she, Mother?
43584Somebody had''planted''it there?
43584Suppose I go there about midnight, Miss Gay? 43584 The boys there yet?"
43584This it?
43584To collect damages?
43584Want to see the gang''s picture?
43584Was a Mrs. Brooks staying here at the time?
43584Was she sent to prison?
43584Well, we''ll see.... Now, do n''t you think you had better go to bed?
43584Were you asleep, sir?
43584Were you out at Center Square last Sunday, Margaret?
43584What are you going to do now?
43584What are you going to do with all that money, Sis?
43584What can I do for you today?
43584What could I do with her if I did find her?
43584What did you do?
43584What do you say we dance?
43584What do you say, Hayden?
43584What do you say, Mary Lou? 43584 What guy?"
43584What happened?
43584What in thunder are you doing that for?
43584What is her name?
43584What is the trouble, my girl?
43584What name, please?
43584What store was she working in? 43584 What time is it now, I wonder?"
43584What time is it, anyway?
43584What time is it?
43584What were theirs like?
43584What would your plan be, Miss Gay?
43584What''s that?
43584When did you first miss the money?
43584When would I start?
43584Where are we, Max?
43584Where did they go?
43584Where do you expect to look for the leader of this gang?
43584Where is the hotel, Daddy?
43584Where was the letter postmarked?
43584Where were you, Ida, when I sent for you?
43584Where''s that?
43584Where? 43584 Where?"
43584Who do you think did all the stealing, Miss Stoddard?
43584Who is it?
43584Who is your daughter?
43584Who was he, Margaret?
43584Who-- are-- you?
43584Whom do I thank for this?
43584Why could n''t you plan to go with her?
43584Why the rush?
43584Will you bring your knitting or your magazine to my room till you''re ready to go to bed?
43584Will you stay here with me while I eat my dinner, Mary Louise?
43584Will you suggest something youthful?
43584Will you take charge of it till I can bring my father up to get it? 43584 Would n''t you ever tell on me?"
43584Would you be good enough to take care of Mary Louise-- introduce her to any of the other guests who come in-- Miss Brooks? 43584 Would you be kind enough to ring him up and ask him to come here while I eat my lunch in the dining room?
43584Would you have last year''s register?
43584You do n''t eat at your house before six- thirty, do you?
43584You do n''t want to break up the party, do you?
43584You have n''t any idea where Margaret went-- or what she did?
43584You have n''t evidence enough to convict them of the robberies at Stoddard House?
43584You have never come across a girl named Margaret Detweiler, have you, Miss Horton?
43584You heard that my daughter is married, Miss Gay?
43584You mean besides last night?
43584You mean that they''ll drive down for us?
43584You mean you want to go home, Mary Louise?
43584You never heard anything about those watches, did you?
43584You one of Mrs. Ferguson''s girls?
43584You remember her, do n''t you?
43584You saw me come out of that pawnshop yesterday, did n''t you, Miss Gay?
43584You think that young man is guilty? 43584 You''ll go to the senior prom with me?"
43584You''ll leave the solving of mysteries and crimes to your father hereafter, wo n''t you?
43584You''re a schoolgirl?
43584You''re home to stay, darling?
43584You''re not going to follow me everywhere I go, are you?
43584You-- are-- going to arrest me?
43584All those engagements you have-- all the fun you have planned with your young friends?
43584An accident?"
43584And another thing, can you tell me where Mrs. Weinberger''s room is?
43584And for what?
43584And if you have a chance, Mr. Hayden, will you keep your eye on these girls we''re suspecting?"
43584And perhaps you brought your knitting?"
43584And what was the date?"
43584And will you please let me pay the bill-- out of my salary?
43584Are they all members of a secret band of thieves?
43584Are you alive?"
43584Are you alive?"
43584Are you very busy?"
43584Are you willing to try it?"
43584Baltimore is tiresome, and I''ll be glad to leave.__ Love,__ Aunt Ethel._"May I make another copy of this letter?"
43584But do you really think it would do you any good to go there?
43584But have n''t you had enough, little girl?
43584But shall we be in time?"
43584But what will you do at the Ritz, Daddy?"
43584But why did you ask that, Mary Lou?"
43584CHAPTER X_ In the Dead of Night_"How about a movie?"
43584Christmas Day alone in a strange city?
43584Could she have gone to the movies with any of the girls, do you think?"
43584Could you ask her to spare me a minute or two?"
43584Could you be watching then?"
43584Did a young woman named Margaret Detweiler ever register here?"
43584Did n''t you tell me the employment manager promised not to send her to jail?"
43584Did you ever hear of that store?"
43584Did you question her about Ida''s story?"
43584Did you see the man, Miss Stoddard?"
43584Do you know where he lives?"
43584Do you play, Mary Lou?"
43584Do you think that would be too much trouble?"
43584Doing what?"
43584Gay, turning to his daughter,"did this aunt of Pauline''s live when she was in Philadelphia?"
43584Gay?"
43584Had someone come in?
43584Have n''t I been pretty good all fall?
43584Have you any in Center Square?"
43584Have you anything valuable here?"
43584Have you told Mother yet?"
43584Hayden?"
43584Hilliard?"
43584Hilliard?"
43584Hilliard?"
43584Hilliard?"
43584Hilliard?"
43584Hilliard?"
43584Hilliard?"
43584Hilliard?"
43584How about you, Mary Lou?"
43584How could she possibly get to know so many people in the short space of two weeks and hope to find the thief?
43584How did it happen?"
43584How did you ever come to suspect those girls?"
43584How do you feel?"
43584How do you like this weather for your vacation?"
43584How is your head now?"
43584How stupid of me.... Well, could you tell me whether any ladies''watches have been pawned here since midnight last night?"
43584I thought you were at the Ritz?"
43584I''ll get an Ingersoll tomorrow when I''m in town.... Now, what time is it?"
43584If everything had turned out all right, why had n''t Margaret written to her grandparents?
43584If she refused, might n''t he knock her down?
43584If she were behaving herself, would n''t she have written to her grandparents?
43584If so, how did he escape from the hotel?
43584In what other country would they detain innocent girls?__ Baltimore is where I am now, but I am leaving immediately for a trip to Florida.
43584In what other country would they detain innocent girls?__ Baltimore is where I am now, but I am leaving immediately for a trip to Florida.
43584Is Miss Weinberger''s friend like that?"
43584Is it?
43584Is n''t there something she left that I could take over to her, to use for an excuse?"
43584Is that O.K.?"
43584Is that correct?"
43584It knocked you out.... Now, can you manage to walk up to the hotel, or shall I carry you?"
43584It''s pretty good, do n''t you think?"
43584Looking me over and snickering at the way I wear my hair or tie my shoes?
43584Macgregor?"
43584Macgregor?"
43584Max, could we go to the Bellevue for lunch?
43584May I come in, Miss Stoddard?"
43584May we come in?"
43584Now what in the world could she do?
43584Now-- what would you say to a dance while we wait for our first course?"
43584Oh, what on earth could she do?
43584Oh, why had n''t she rushed down to see who was doing it?
43584Or do you want a typewriter?"
43584Out of Pauline''s window?
43584Remember-- I thought it was a man who stole my watch, though he did seem awfully small?
43584She''s been terribly worried, Mary Lou.... And shall I tell her that we''ll eat Christmas dinner with her at Stoddard House?"
43584So will you go back with me and arrest him, Constable Hodge?"
43584Solved your mystery yet?"
43584The solution seemed logical and plausible, yet how, Mary Louise asked herself, could she prove her accusations?
43584The startled voice of a man called out,"What do you want?"
43584There is n''t anybody by that name around here, is there?"
43584Was Margaret Detweiler connected with this gang?
43584Was it the Margaret whom Mrs. Ferguson had mentioned in her letter, or was it the woman herself?
43584Was n''t it funny, she mused, that the very first guest she had met at Stoddard House had been the guilty person?
43584Was n''t she just being terribly foolish to stay here in Philadelphia, missing all those good times?
43584Was one of those young men whom Pauline was dining with today an accomplice?
43584Was there a letter from this Mrs. Ferguson, or did she merely send the money?"
43584Was this country place at Center Square, and was that woman whom Mary Louise had seen in the dark Pauline''s aunt?
43584Was"Margaret"here, or had the police come to arrest Mary Louise for housebreaking?
43584Weinberger?"
43584Well, that''s an honest living, is n''t it?"
43584What could have happened to her?
43584What does she call herself?"
43584What happened then?"
43584What happened?"
43584What next?"
43584What time does the club meet?"
43584What would Christmas be without eating?"
43584What''s the nearest room you can give me?"
43584Where could he have vanished to?"
43584Where did Mrs. Weinberger go?"
43584Where does the postmaster live?
43584Where is it?"
43584Where was her father?
43584Where was the noise coming from?
43584Who else was there?"
43584Who was the intruder?
43584Who was this Mrs. Ferguson, and why had she done this kindness for an unknown girl?
43584Whoever it was, was he or she armed with a revolver?
43584Whom shall we get for a fourth?
43584Why had n''t he driven out here to Center Square when he returned to Stoddard House last night-- and had found her missing?
43584Why had n''t she come here before breakfast, since she knew from Mr. Hayden last night that the girls had telegraphed a request for the money?
43584Why had n''t she gotten the names of those girls from Mrs. Hilliard''s old register?
43584Why had n''t she thought of that explanation before?
43584Why had n''t she thought of that plan before?
43584Will you submit peacefully, Mrs. Ferguson, or must we call in the police?"
43584Will you write to her?
43584Will you write to her?
43584Will you?"
43584Wo n''t you go, dear?
43584Would it be too much trouble to look her up in your files?
43584Would it be worth it to you?"
43584Would n''t it be too wonderful?
43584Would n''t somebody miss her and come to her rescue?
43584Would n''t you want us to do everything in our power to get it back for you?"
43584Would that be time enough-- or do you want it now?"
43584Yet if she complied with his demand and let him see the roll of bills, what would prevent his stealing them all at once?
43584You do n''t suppose my parents would allow me to leave high school and take a regular job when I''m only sixteen, do you?
43584You''re sure it was a man, Mary Louise?"
4987A ghost?
4987Afraid?
4987Am I hurt? 4987 Amy, want to steer?"
4987And have you a boathook? 4987 And see the-- what are we supposed to call these?"
4987And sleep aboard?
4987And so you expect to make Rainbow Lake by six bells?
4987And stand watches-- and all that sort of thing, the way your uncle told of it being done aboard ships?
4987And the dining room-- may I call it that?
4987And the papers?
4987And was n''t it nice of Will, Frank, and Allen to come?
4987And you are really going to camp on Elm Island?
4987And you have never let on that Grace was the girl on the horse?
4987And you think you girls will go for a cruise?
4987Angry? 4987 Any candy left, Grace?"
4987Any for me?
4987Any luck?
4987Any news about the papers, Grace?
4987Any news?
4987Any particular island?
4987Anything doing, old man?
4987Anything-- what do you mean?
4987Are n''t we ever going to do any night cruising?
4987Are you all ready?
4987Are you girls all right?
4987Are you looking for us?
4987Are you sure, Grace?
4987Are you sure, Grace?
4987As for shoes----"Who took my candy?
4987Besides, it''s important; is n''t it?
4987But can we lift out the heavy stones?
4987But dare you do it, Miss Nelson?
4987But how are you going to do it?
4987But how can we get it up?
4987But how?
4987But if any one tries to get them away from us, we-- we''ll just-- run away; wo n''t we, Prince?
4987But if there is time, and we can do it, we might decorate?
4987But the ghost-- the one Mr. Lagg told about?
4987But the rattling chains?
4987But the surprise?
4987But was n''t it oddly shaped, Betty?
4987But what are you going to anchor it with?
4987But what is it?
4987But what is this story?
4987But what makes the boat go?
4987Ca n''t they see we''re not under control? 4987 Ca n''t you turn on a little more gasoline?"
4987Can we get back in time?
4987Can you do it, Betty?
4987Can you imagine what it may be?
4987Charts?
4987Could I see her?
4987Could n''t he swim?
4987Could n''t you ship us before the mast?
4987Did I splash much?
4987Did I, Amy?
4987Did we really?
4987Did you find it?
4987Did you strike bottom?
4987Do n''t need any charts? 4987 Do n''t you know what you''re doing?"
4987Do n''t you recall, you held it in one hand behind your back and told Billy to choose?
4987Do n''t you remember? 4987 Do you have to do subtraction and addition every time the clock strikes?"
4987Do you like this, Bet?
4987Do you motor?
4987Do you really think, Will, that some one has Prince and the papers?
4987Do you?
4987Dodo?
4987Does the ghost keep you awake?
4987Dot any more tandy?
4987Dot any tandy?
4987Dot any tandy?
4987Elm is a nice one,remarked Will"Why do n''t you girls try that?
4987For what?
4987Girls, have you any idea what it was?
4987Girls, you are hereby invited to accompany me on a cruise to go-- Oh, where can we go?
4987Got any chocolates that need eating?
4987Has he dot any tandy?
4987Haunted?
4987Have we time?
4987Have you enough gasoline?
4987Have you got a pump aboard?
4987Have you seen the ghost?
4987How about Percy Falconer?
4987How about chewing gum?
4987How can you carry them?
4987How is she-- much hurt?
4987How is that?
4987How-- how is little Dodo?
4987How?
4987How?
4987How?
4987I mean told''em who you are?
4987I mean, did they seem to follow you-- as if they had knowledge that the papers would be transferred to- day, and were determined to get them?
4987I suppose your brother told you these papers were rather valuable; did he not?
4987I wonder if I''ll be disappointed in expecting a ride in Betty''s boat?
4987I wonder if they are any worse than girls, grandma?
4987I wonder when we will get our prize?
4987I''ll ask Will, of course, and Frank Haley, but----"Not Allen?
4987If we are thinking of camping on Elm Island, we do not want to be annoyed by some one playing pranks; do we, girls?
4987If you find her we''ll give you that money; wo n''t we?
4987Is father much worried about the missing papers?
4987Is he reliable?
4987Is it a good place?
4987Is it a riddle?
4987Is it from that queer Mr. Blackford, whose five hundred dollar bill we found when we were on our walking trip?
4987Is it-- is it gone?
4987Is she much hurt?
4987Is the ghost going to keep us away?
4987Is there anything else you''d like?
4987Is this as fast as you can go?
4987It''s no use, Amy, for Grace finished the last of them long before Betty blew in on us-- or should I say drifted? 4987 It''s up in front; is n''t it, Uncle Amos?"
4987Just what is it?
4987Little brother, are you in there?
4987Never mind, did you bring the talcum?
4987No soda?
4987No sooner do we arrive than we are plunged into the midst of-- er-- the midst of-- what is it I want to say?
4987No; why?
4987Now, what do you say to a little run down the river? 4987 Of course,"assented Betty,"Wo n''t you stay with us to- night, Uncle Amos?"
4987Of--?
4987Oh, is Mollie coming here?
4987Oh, is n''t it nice?
4987Oh, would you?
4987Old, grandma? 4987 One thing, though, we''re not going to let it drive us away, are we-- not away from our camp?"
4987Ready?
4987Really, Mr. Lagg, is there-- er-- anything really there?
4987Say, Mr. Lagg,asked Will, lingering a bit behind the others,"just how much is there in this ghost story, anyhow?"
4987Say, Sis, will you go if I let you ride Prince?
4987Say, is it Christmas, or Fourth of July?
4987Say, you have n''t seen a big green canoe, with an Indian''s head painted in red on each end; have you?
4987Seen anything more of the ghost?
4987Shall I cast off?
4987Shall I stay, mother?
4987Shall we holystone the decks, or scrub the lee scuppers? 4987 Shall we start off again?"
4987Shall we try it, girl?
4987So these are your consorts; eh, Bet? 4987 Surely,"said Grace, and Mollie took the chance to whisper to her:"Why do n''t you start some questions?"
4987That''s what I am, lass, and I struck the right harbor first thing; did n''t I? 4987 The Gem goes in, and her captain''s name--?"
4987The ghost?
4987The question is, shall we go on a cruise?
4987Then we are going to meet him?
4987Then we''re going to sleep aboard?
4987Then why not enter?
4987Then you''ll enter?
4987Then you''ll get those papers from grandmother for me, and take them to dad?
4987They never found out who those mean autoists were, did they?
4987They walked-- I think it was two hundred miles, just before coming on this cruise; did n''t you, Betty?
4987This fine and beautiful sunny day, what will you have-- oats or hay?
4987To sail and sail the bounding main, And then come back to port again? 4987 To scare away sharks?"
4987Trouble?
4987Unexpectedly?
4987Want a drink, lady?
4987Was it only a letter?
4987Was that the grand surprise?
4987We can use the boat, too; ca n''t we?
4987Well, how are we coming on?
4987Well, what do you think of that?
4987What are all you folks doing around here?
4987What are they?
4987What are we going to do?
4987What book?
4987What did it turn out to be?
4987What did you want to start off for, in the middle of the night?
4987What do you mean?
4987What happened?
4987What if it''s an airship?
4987What is it now?
4987What is it?
4987What is it?
4987What is it?
4987What is the matter?
4987What is your news, Grace?
4987What time is it at two o''clock?
4987What were they?
4987What will happen if we ca n''t find the papers?
4987What will it be to- day?
4987What will it be? 4987 What will we do to- morrow?"
4987What will you please to buy to- day? 4987 What''s that?"
4987What''s the matter with you fellows?
4987What-- the ghost?
4987What-- what kind?
4987What?
4987What?
4987What?
4987When do they take place?
4987When will they get here?
4987When?
4987Where are you going, pray tell?
4987Where are you going?
4987Where can he be going?
4987Where is that book?
4987Where is that?
4987Where''s your charts?
4987Which is port-- right or left? 4987 Which way shall I steer to pass that boat, Uncle?"
4987Who said anything about him?
4987Who said breakfast?
4987Why do n''t they change their course?
4987Why do n''t they stop?
4987Why do n''t you start the motor?
4987Why is he here-- in the house-- is some one else ill?
4987Why not say it?
4987Why not?
4987Will we wear our sailor costumes all the while?
4987Will you ever forget the awful shower that kept us in the deserted house all night?
4987Will you tell him about the-- ghost?
4987Wise? 4987 Wo n''t you have some of our sandwiches?"
4987Would n''t Will just love this?
4987Yes, Nellie, what is it?
4987Yes, how are you sailing? 4987 You mean-- take some action to get the property?"
4987You say the doctor was here to see me?
4987You see we have let our supplies run low,remarked Betty as she gave her order,"Are you going on a long cruise?"
4987Your new horse?
4987And are you sure you do n''t feel resentful toward me?"
4987And, now what can I do for you?
4987Are we going to stay around here, where I can get word quickly?"
4987Are you going by dead reckoning?"
4987Are you much hurt?"
4987But it was an accident, pure and simple; was n''t it, Bob?"
4987CHAPTER II AFTER THE PAPERS"Hello, is this you, Will?"
4987CHAPTER IV THE MISSING DOCUMENTS"How do you feel now?
4987CHAPTER VII STOWAWAYS"Then he is n''t your horse, Will?"
4987CHAPTER VIII A HINT OF GHOSTS"Who can they be?"
4987CHAPTER X ADRIFT"Well, Captain Betty, what are your orders?"
4987CHAPTER XI IN DANGER"What is it?
4987CHAPTER XIX A QUEER DISTURBANCE"Have we blankets enough?"
4987CHAPTER XVI FIGHTING FIRE"Betty, do you think we can win?"
4987CHAPTER XVII ON ELM ISLAND"Have you a long rope aboard, Miss Nelson?"
4987CHAPTER XXII WHAT MOLLIE FOUND"Did you get-- it?"
4987CHAPTER XXIII SETTING A TRAP"Are you sure it is the canoe?"
4987CHAPTER XXIV THE GHOST CAUGHT"When do you expect to hear about little Dodo?"
4987CHAPTER XXV THE MISSING SADDLE"Have you caught Prince?"
4987Can you find your way back to the dock?"
4987Did you ever hear of a girl on a white horse being seriously hurt?"
4987Do you girls mind if I sit up and read a little?
4987Do you remember us, Miss Nelson?"
4987Do you think you can drink a little of this?"
4987Girls, do you hear?
4987Has dad said anything lately?"
4987Have you heaved the lead to see how much water you''ve got?"
4987Have you marked the course since last night and posted it?
4987Have you put them wise yet?"
4987He----""Did he''fess up''about the chocolates?"
4987How do you expect to make Rainbow Lake without some kind of charts?
4987How have you been?"
4987How is Mollie standing it, Grace?"
4987How is little Dodo coming on?"
4987How would this do?
4987I saw one run away once, with a young lady, and----""Do you mean that time we were speeding up to get out of the storm?"
4987I wonder did we get any pickles?"
4987I wonder if any campers here keep a white cow?"
4987I wonder if there is n''t some way I could make sure?"
4987I wonder what we shall do then?"
4987I wonder where he could have run to?"
4987I''d give anything to hear her say now''Has oo dot any tandy?''"
4987Is everyone well?"
4987Is n''t it strange that we should meet the two autoists?"
4987Is your boat entered yet?"
4987It----""But what is the surprise itself?"
4987Just a bump on the head; eh?"
4987Lagg?"
4987Lagg?."
4987Now, is everything arranged for?"
4987Now, what did I do with that letter?"
4987Oh, what can have become of him?
4987Oh, what has happened?"
4987Oh, what shall I do?"
4987Oh, will they ever forgive me?"
4987Oo dot any tandy?"
4987Paul looked up at the familiar face and asked:"Oo dot any tandy?"
4987Prince has not come home?
4987Prince, old boy, you knew me; did n''t you?"
4987Salt water and a tide would make any place, even a desert-- er-- er-- what is it I want to say, Bet?"
4987Say, Will, how is poor little Dodo getting on?"
4987So that''s the ghost; eh?
4987Suddenly Mr. Kennedy, who was sitting well forward on the trunk cabin with Grace, sprang to his feet, exclaiming:"What''s that?"
4987The boat will be safe; wo n''t it, Betty?"
4987The girls are here, and-- Never mind about the chocolates?
4987Then, having finished that, he fixed his big eyes on Mr. Lagg, and demanded:"Oo dot any tandy?"
4987Was n''t it unfortunate?"
4987Was this a subterfuge-- a means to an acquaintance?
4987Well, how are you?"
4987Well, shall we start?"
4987What are you going to do, Amy?"
4987What can I do?
4987What could it have been?"
4987What did you do with my chocolates?
4987What do you mean?
4987What happened?
4987What horse power have you?"
4987What is Mr. Lagg''s special line of jollity?"
4987What kind of a voyage did you have?"
4987What sort of a place is it without a tide?
4987What will it be to- day?
4987What will it be?
4987What would be the fun of having bunks if we did n''t use them?
4987What''s that-- Dodo-- tell Mollie Dodo is over the operation and is going to get well?
4987What''s that-- you have a stray white horse?
4987What''s that?
4987What?
4987Where are your charts-- your maps?
4987Where did you get it?"
4987Where is he?"
4987Where is it?"
4987Where is that list, Mollie?"
4987Who could help it?
4987Who has the olives?"
4987Who was it?"
4987Why not Dodo come wif us?"
4987Will I do your errand for you?
4987Will you be angry if I run away for a little while?
4987Will you come, Grace?"
4987Will you do it for me, Sis?
4987With four girls?
4987With the ghost?"
4987Wo n''t you come on a trip with us?
4987Would it hold?
4987You can have chafing dish parties-- is that what you call them?
4987You do n''t mind; do you, Aunt Kate?"
4987You do n''t suppose, do you Grace, that those men could have had any object in getting those papers away from you?"
4987You girls tied the boat, did n''t you?"
4987You want to go to the ball game?
4987asked Betty,"Do you want me to tell you?"
4987cried Grace,"Has anyone a chocolate cream?"
4987declared Grace,"Your candy?"
4987do n''t you know me?"
4987his friend interrupted,"and we hit a stone, swerved over toward the animal, and nearly struck it?"
43583A hot drink?
43583A little bill? 43583 A nurse?
43583A son?
43583About what time was that?
43583Am I supposed to get dressed?
43583And are there plenty of young people?
43583And could n''t they tell you anything more about the fire?
43583And how do you feel today, dear?
43583And if you do n''t mind, Miss Stone, will you call me by my right name? 43583 And is your mother going to rebuild?"
43583And little Ethel?
43583And sometimes those fires spread farther than you want them to?
43583And that''s all you know?
43583And then what do I do?
43583And where is our next- door neighbor''s cottage?
43583And why did Tom Adams suspect that you knew anything?
43583And you saw two people on your way back, you said?
43583And you''d kind of like to prove Cliff Hunter is innocent, would n''t you, Jane?
43583Another fire?
43583Any news yet?
43583Anybody drowned?
43583Are you responsible for Cliff''s arrest, David McCall?
43583Beat me up?
43583Business is n''t any too good----"What would it have been without me to help?
43583But ca n''t he be arrested?
43583But do you think she could be setting the places on fire?
43583But how can we call on him if we do n''t know him?
43583But how could he?
43583But how do you know, Mary Lou?
43583But we''d have to quote prices, would n''t we?
43583But what are you going to do?
43583But what made you do that dreadful thing to Mary Louise?
43583But what makes you think you do n''t want to go over to the Reeds''with me?
43583But where is Hattie?
43583But where were you, Mary Lou?
43583But where''s Mary Lou?
43583But who are you?
43583But why?
43583But you did n''t see anybody?
43583But you have another week, do n''t you, David?
43583By the way,asked Jane,"where is David McCall staying?
43583Ca n''t we send for him?
43583Ca n''t you tell us where you were when that fire started?
43583Ca n''t you think of something you want?
43583Can they save it?
43583Can you show me where there is a well of clear water?
43583Can you take us over to the farm now, Ditmar? 43583 Card tricks?"
43583Could n''t you borrow one?
43583Could we go upstairs and see her when you take up her broth?
43583Could we talk to Rebecca?
43583Did Frazier expect to burn any more cottages?
43583Did I-- or did I not put money in your pocket?
43583Did n''t I tell you? 43583 Did n''t anybody see the flames-- or smell the smoke?"
43583Did n''t he save our lives that night we rode in Harry Grant''s car?
43583Did n''t you bring any bag, Rebecca?
43583Did n''t you go to bed that night?
43583Did n''t you have enough excitement and mystery at Dark Cedars?
43583Did n''t you say she is home now?
43583Did she happen to say?
43583Did they expect to go to the picnic tonight on the island?
43583Did you make a fire?
43583Did you need the work, Hattie?
43583Did you see anybody in the woods or around Shady Nook?
43583Did you see the boys or anybody around at all?
43583Did you see the boys this morning?
43583Did you show it to your husband?
43583Do n''t you love it?
43583Do n''t your patients have anything to do?
43583Do you believe that, Mary Lou?
43583Do you care that much about Cliff, Jane?
43583Do you know a woman with gray hair who calls herself Rebecca, Hattie?
43583Do you know any of the details, Freckles?
43583Do you make fires at all?
43583Do you really think her husband is guilty, Mary Lou?
43583Do you think Hattie will be back soon?
43583Do you think she could be starting the fires? 43583 Do you think you have all those things?"
43583Does burning people''s houses come into his plan?
43583Even when you reached your own dock, did n''t you smell smoke?
43583Fires?
43583Freckles, what do you think could have happened to Mary Lou?
43583From the kitchen?
43583From the river, I mean?
43583Had n''t you seen any flames?
43583Had you ever seen him before?
43583Has Mr. Frazier run away too?
43583Has anybody seen Freckles?
43583Has she been here?
43583Have n''t you ever heard of a bribe, Mary Lou?
43583Have n''t you gotten over that fad yet, Cliff?
43583Have you any engagement, or can I talk to you for a while?
43583Have you any plans at all, dear?
43583Have you any suspicions at all?
43583Have you had anything to eat?
43583Have you heard any news this morning?
43583Have you seen her since breakfast, Tom?
43583He can be arrested for signing that paper confining me to the insane asylum, ca n''t he, Dad?
43583He would n''t give up college?
43583Honestly?
43583How about Frazier?
43583How can I?
43583How could Cliff have anything to do with it when he was with us all evening?
43583How did it happen?
43583How did it start?
43583How did this come?
43583How did you boys find out about it? 43583 How do you know Lem Adams?"
43583How many bungalows did you say there are, Mary Lou?
43583How?
43583How?
43583I do n''t suppose you''d have time to play with us this afternoon, would you, Mary Lou?
43583I mean, how could a detective from Albany know about the fires here at Shady Nook-- let alone suspect Cliff?
43583I mean, what other families with young people?
43583I mean, when you finally left your camp?
43583I thought maybe you girls would come in my motorboat----"And lose the chance of winning a prize?
43583In all this heat? 43583 In my motorboat?"
43583Is Hattie home today?
43583Is Mary Louise here? 43583 Is he guilty?"
43583Is he here now? 43583 Is it anything dangerous?"
43583Is n''t Frazier guilty?
43583Is n''t there some way I can prove that I''m sane?
43583Is that because you expect to become a writer?
43583Is that where they hold the dances?
43583Is there any question you want to ask this criminal, Miss Gay, before we take him away?
43583It does look good, does n''t it?
43583Lemuel Adams?
43583Letting you in on all the thrills of solving a real mystery.... Well, are you coming or not?
43583Lost a tennis ball?
43583Mary Lou, you think David sent that wire, do n''t you?
43583May I break off two sticks from some bush?
43583May I come over to see you after supper?
43583May I come up and see you, Rebecca?
43583May I go with the boys now?
43583May I have a shower?
43583Mr. Adams,she said,"may I ask a question?
43583Mystery? 43583 No clues at all?"
43583No signs of anybody?
43583Now that I have finished my work, may I go out into the garden and practice my semaphore for an hour before lunch?
43583Oh, Mary Lou, you''re not hurt, are you?
43583Oh, what?
43583Oh, where is he?
43583Oh, why ca n''t he behave himself?
43583Oh, yeah? 43583 Oh, yeah?"
43583On a case?
43583On what grounds could you arrest him, then?
43583Or do the Hunters live on the other side of you?
43583Pare potatoes-- or something?
43583Popular?
43583Prepared for what?
43583Rebecca Adams?
43583Recognize them, McCall?
43583Regular hold- up men?
43583Remember the scout motto,''Be prepared''? 43583 Since the bungalow is gone, where would he stay?"
43583Small children? 43583 So I suppose we have to go to Four Corners this afternoon?"
43583So we ca n''t count on them for any fun?
43583So what did you do?
43583So you narrowed your suspects down to two people-- besides Tom Adams?
43583Some test I can take?
43583Somebody set it on fire-- on purpose, you mean, David?
43583Such as gypsies?
43583Suppose Watson had told Sherlock Holmes that he had a date with a girl and could n''t go on an investigation with him when he was needed?
43583Tell me,urged Jane,"which boy you really like best-- Cliff Hunter or David McCall or Max Miller?"
43583The Ditmars?
43583Then I sha n''t be competing against you if I go in Cliff''s launch?
43583Then I sha n''t need any fancy clothes-- like dance dresses?
43583Then we can count on you three?
43583Then what do you believe? 43583 Then who?"
43583Think you''ll make me fergit them hundred berries you owe me? 43583 This is n''t Clifford?"
43583Tired, dear?
43583Together?
43583Tom Adams? 43583 True.... Who''s your other suspect, Mary Lou?
43583Two?
43583Want a receipt?
43583Was Tom home?
43583We had supper at half- past five last night, did n''t we? 43583 We''ll look for you in the water, then.... And, by the way, you''ll come to the party on the island tomorrow night, wo n''t you?"
43583Well, if my brother comes back here, will you please send him right over to the inn?
43583What are you doing?
43583What can you possibly do about it?
43583What did he do?
43583What did you do that for?
43583What did you do the next day?
43583What do you mean by that?
43583What do you think about it?
43583What do you want, Mary Louise?
43583What does your mother think?
43583What for?
43583What have you on the program for today?
43583What idea?
43583What in the world did you do?
43583What kind of diabolical plot is this?
43583What makes you think there will be one tonight?
43583What paper?
43583What proof have you?
43583What time was she here?
43583What''ll we go in, Mary Lou? 43583 What''s happened?"
43583What''s that, dear?
43583What''s the youth''s name?
43583When did you find it?
43583When we wear our flossy dresses?
43583Where are the Smiths now?
43583Where are they now?
43583Where are you going?
43583Where are you?
43583Where can we buy food?
43583Where did your brother go?
43583Where do I take my bath?
43583Where was she going after she left you?
43583Where will the fire be tonight?
43583Where will the''Wild Guys of the Road''be today?
43583Where you goin''?
43583Where''s Mary Lou?
43583Where''s your sister?
43583Which one?
43583Who be you?
43583Who cares about that old stiff?
43583Who else are there besides the Hunters?
43583Who is he? 43583 Who is the leader?"
43583Who''s driving first?
43583Who''s she?
43583Who? 43583 Who?"
43583Who?
43583Who?
43583Whose accomplice are you?
43583Why did I ever try to be a detective?
43583Why did he want them burned down?
43583Why hot?
43583Why not Flicks''?
43583Why not stop for the Reed girls?
43583Why?
43583Why?
43583Will you come with me or play around with Cliff?
43583Will you dance with me after supper, Mary Lou?
43583Will you men come inside?
43583With her nurse?
43583With whom?
43583Would that be all right?
43583Would you like to come and join us?
43583You are Mrs. Ditmar, are n''t you? 43583 You do n''t mean David McCall, do you?"
43583You do n''t mind my doing it, Mother?
43583You do n''t suspect him, do you?
43583You found her, Gay?
43583You have a sister Rebecca, have n''t you, Adams?
43583You mean Lemuel Adams and his son?
43583You mean that now you have to turn in and do the cooking since Flicks''Inn is gone?
43583You really are serious?
43583You remember Mary Louise? 43583 You saw the ruins?"
43583You suspect Horace Ditmar, of course?
43583You think we''re as wicked as that, Mary Lou?
43583You were expecting it, David?
43583You''re not still mad at me, Mary Lou, are you?
43583You''re not still worried, are you, Mother?
43583You''re sure that''s the truth?
43583You-- have been thinking of putting Rebecca into an asylum?
43583Your brother-- or your father-- didn''t know anything about it, either?
43583Your father? 43583 A fellow who does odd jobs around the hotel sometimes?
43583Adams?"
43583And I''m going to miss Cliff dreadfully.... By the way, where was David McCall today?
43583And how about that threat they got?
43583And is n''t it nice I have my license, so you wo n''t have to drive all the way?"
43583And the other people who were boarding at Flicks''?"
43583And who wanted them burned down except Frazier, or possibly Horace Ditmar, who, as you know, is an architect?"
43583Any news?"
43583Any relation to Hattie Adams, who always waited on the table at Flicks''Inn?"
43583Are n''t I, Miss Stone?"
43583Are there many cottages on the other side of Flicks''?"
43583Big brute with light hair?
43583But how could Mary Louise possibly prove this fact?
43583But not boys as big as Freckles and the Smiths?"
43583But she must know something, or how could she predict when they are going to occur?"
43583But what do you want me to do about them, Jane?
43583But what had he done to Mary Lou first?
43583But who cares?"
43583But why would your mother suspect Mr. Ditmar of setting fire to her cottage?"
43583But, Jane, how can you take an interest in men when your own boy- friend is in such trouble?
43583But-- but-- can you prove anything?"
43583CHAPTER II_ Clifford''s Story_"What did he say?"
43583CHAPTER I_ The Burnt Bungalow_"For the whole month?"
43583CHAPTER VIII_ Danger_"Freckles,"said Mary Louise at supper that evening,"will you lend us your tent tonight?
43583CHAPTER V_ Freckles''Story_"What in the world are you doing?"
43583CHAPTER XIII_ The Threat_"Is there anything I can do to help you people?"
43583Ca n''t you get your tennis things on and play with us this morning?"
43583Ca n''t you, Mary Lou?"
43583Can you figure out how it happened?"
43583Could we ask him?"
43583Did Tom say anything about seeing her?"
43583Did n''t he pay you a certain sum of money to start those fires?"
43583Did n''t this storekeeper profit-- by getting extra business-- because Flicks''burned down?"
43583Did the Ditmars see you boys in the woods?"
43583Did the nurse believe her?
43583Did you stay there in the woods all day?"
43583Do n''t I always square up my debts?"
43583Do n''t you know what kind of place this is, Max?
43583Do n''t you remember?
43583Do n''t you want to wear your pink georgette?"
43583Do you happen to know Tom Adams?
43583Do you know, she warned Mary Louise day before yesterday there would be another fire?
43583Do you see him?"
43583Do you, Mother?"
43583Does your husband approve, Adelaide?"
43583Flick?"
43583Flick?"
43583Flick?"
43583Flick?"
43583Frazier?"
43583Gay?"
43583Had she-- and the rest of the staff at the asylum-- been accomplices to a hideous crime?
43583Had the girl taken any part in the plot?
43583Has it occurred to you, Mary Lou, that both fires started when everybody from Shady Nook was off on a party?"
43583Have a party and invite them over?"
43583Have you found a well of clear water?"
43583How are you feeling?"
43583How are you this summer?"
43583How could anybody help liking a boy like Cliff?
43583How could he?"
43583How could she sit there and talk like that?
43583How could they commit anybody to an insane asylum?
43583How do you know?"
43583Hunter?"
43583If it had, why would n''t Ditmars''and Robinsons''cottages have been burned?
43583If only my husband did----""Does n''t Mr. Ditmar like Shady Nook?"
43583If she had been responsible for the kidnaping of Mary Louise, why was the girl so polite to her?
43583Is it in the papers?"
43583Is it-- Cliff?"
43583Is n''t there some policeman we can get to watch our house?"
43583Is this a hospital?"
43583Is this man the criminal type, Cliff?"
43583Is this the grocery?"
43583It''s about my daughter Rebecca, ai n''t it?
43583Mary Lou, what can we do?
43583No-- but maybe----""Maybe what?"
43583Now you answer a question for me: Who do you think set the Hunters''bungalow on fire-- Cliff himself, or that Mr. Ditmar, the architect, or the kids?"
43583Now, can you think of anybody else?"
43583Oh, what shall I do?"
43583Or did the Flicks buy groceries from you anyhow?"
43583Pretty, is n''t she?"
43583Remember her?"
43583Remember that time we wanted to give an entertainment for the Red Cross and he tried to charge us fifty dollars for using his dining room?
43583Remember the time they locked that little boy in the boathouse and almost left him there all night?"
43583Remember?
43583She''s all right, ai n''t she?"
43583Should she add Hattie''s name too?
43583So will you tell us when you left Flicks''--and all you know about it?"
43583Suppose Jane and I run over?"
43583The canoe?"
43583The girl who saved France, you remember?"
43583The girl who saved the Smith baby in the fire?"
43583Turning to Tom she asked,"Is Hattie over at the farm?"
43583Want to come with me, Jane?"
43583Was Miss Stone joking, or did the patient really believe she was Joan of Arc?
43583Was this plan just another proof of the Ditmars''guilt in the burning of the cottages?
43583Was what she said the truth, or only a figment of her crazy brain?
43583We could hire Hattie Adams to wash dishes, and I could cook, and you and Jane could wait on the tables.... Would you, Mary Louise?"
43583We''ve got to cook our camp meals, have n''t we?
43583What could be simpler?"
43583What could have happened to Mary Louise?
43583What could he do?"
43583What did he care about those four fellows?
43583What gave you that idea?"
43583What had he done to Mary Lou?
43583What in the world did she want?"
43583What time do we start?"
43583What were they planning to do to her?
43583What, I asked myself, could the job be except setting those houses on fire?
43583When did I promise him?"
43583Where is he, Mary Lou?
43583Where shall we go first?"
43583Where?"
43583Who around here could owe you a hundred smackers?"
43583Who cares, anyhow?
43583Who is he?
43583Who would n''t have?
43583Who would n''t?"
43583Who''s your third suspect-- the one you called a possible chance?"
43583Whom should she inform first?
43583Why do n''t you come over and go in with the crowd, now that you have n''t any job?
43583Why do you think that there will be another fire?"
43583Why must girls always talk?"
43583Why?"
43583Why?"
43583Why?"
43583Will you be home then?"
43583Will you get me a drink of water, Mary Louise?"
43583Will you promise me that?"
43583Would n''t you rather walk by yourself than have these men carry you?"
43583Would you-- go into it with me, Mary Louise?"
43583You do n''t mind, do you, Jane?"
43583You do n''t want to be with them, do you?"
43583You know the two new bungalows that were put up here this year-- beyond Flicks''?"
43583You pay me by tonight, or I''ll----""You''ll what?"
43583You really do n''t think the Flicks''Inn was just an accident?"
43583You remember hearing Freckles describing a queer creature he saw last night on his way home from the woods?
43583You saw that?"
43583You were here when it happened?"
43583You would n''t mind-- if it was something about your family?"
43583You''ll sleep out with me, wo n''t you?"
43583You''ve heard of Girl Scouts, have n''t you?"
32310''He?'' 32310 ''Heap coals?''"
32310Afraid? 32310 Am I?"
32310And after that? 32310 Are you, dearest?
32310Ate spoiled fish out of a garbage can, did he? 32310 Begging for what, Win?"
32310But how Baal, and why? 32310 Could n''t you talk without stopping?
32310Did you send for me, dear Bishop?
32310Dorothy, will you please ring for a maid to look after Grace? 32310 Forgive you?
32310Go away? 32310 Got any money, Dorothy?"
32310Half- starved, sir? 32310 Has you got any nuts in your pockets?
32310Have you been''inquisitioned''yet?
32310I ca n''t work and talk, too; please be still, ca n''t you?
32310I do n''t know how long I shall be, and why care about nuts while we can have-- this?
32310Is it so far? 32310 It means-- is your father an Earl?
32310Jack, are you in the habit of keeping that animal here, in this room?
32310Likely somebody''s late and she''s waiting to say:''Miss''--whoever it is--''your excuse, please?'' 32310 Lost?
32310Lost? 32310 Lovely, but is n''t it terribly clumsy?"
32310Lovely? 32310 Not belonging?
32310Robin, are you willing to work rather hard, in a good home, for your mother and to provide one for her, too?
32310Robin, would n''t you be afraid?
32310Said you''d got to go, did she? 32310 Seemed to be an old acquaintance of the farmer''s, did n''t it?
32310Shall we try it again, Win? 32310 So this is my old friend Betty Calvert''s child, is it?
32310Speaking of Robins, suppose we write her a round- robin letter? 32310 Staying with Grace?
32310Sure we can be back in time, Robin?
32310There, girlie, what do you say to that? 32310 To this shanty?
32310Want the Metropole, Miss?
32310Was Queen Elizabeth fat?
32310Well, Win, you can be glad without squeezing the breath out of a body, ca n''t you? 32310 Well, dearie, I suppose I dare because Miss Tross- Kingdon--""Did she say you could?
32310Well, if he wanted her to, what harm, Gwen? 32310 Well, now, Dorothy, do n''t that beat all?
32310What Robin?
32310What do you mean, Winifred Christie? 32310 What does that matter, whether she were or not?
32310What in the world do you mean, Baby? 32310 What is it?
32310What is the explanation of this, Dorothy? 32310 What makes him so slippery?
32310What now? 32310 What things, dear?
32310What? 32310 Whatever is the matter with that girl?
32310Where can they go, how can they go, when can they go, Teacher?
32310Where you going, Dolly Doodles? 32310 Where''s your trunk?"
32310Who cares? 32310 Who owns him?
32310Who''m you? 32310 Who''re you going to slide with, Dolly?
32310Why ca n''t they? 32310 Why did I come to Oak Knowe alone?
32310Why did he throw out the barrels?
32310Why did n''t you come back? 32310 Why did you do it?
32310Why for ca n''t I speak, Dorothy? 32310 Why should I be afraid?
32310Why, Gwen, dearest, surely she did n''t make you nervous again, did she? 32310 Why, Mr. Gilpin, what''s the matter?
32310Why, are n''t you stupid, Dolly? 32310 Why, darling, what is this?
32310Why, sir, things ca n''t be done without folks do them, can they?
32310Why-- why-- darling-- can you_ speak_? 32310 Will I not?
32310Will ye? 32310 Win, you darling, what do you mean?"
32310Would you? 32310 Would you?
32310You do forgive, do n''t you, dear old John?
32310You fix it? 32310 You want me to''begin at the beginning''?
32310You''ll be quiet, Winifred, and keep out of mischief?
32310''Tisn''t winter all the year and who wears top- coats in summer?
32310''Where are you going, my pretty maid?
32310A real letter explainin''about the accident, when the lassie''s toboggan got in our way and we got that mixed''twas nigh the death of the lot?
32310A share of the Hallowe''en treat, is it, Dorothy?"
32310Afraid to go into my own house, that was, that my father built with his own hands?
32310After all my meanness to you, could you make yourself like me just a little?"
32310Am I invited?"
32310And Baal?
32310And a boy who in but a week''s time had learned to clean shoes so well and promptly?
32310And am I a bit better-- in myself-- because in reality I belonged to a rich old family, than I was when I washed dishes in Mother Martha''s kitchen?
32310And had Dorothy come suddenly upon his track?
32310And immediately the meal was over, Winifred hurried to the Lady Principal and asked:"Please, Miss Muriel, can you tell me, is Dorothy Calvert ill?"
32310And most of all how came he here in the house?"
32310And say, girlie, where''s that Jack, boot- boy?
32310And this Robin was a paragon, was n''t he?
32310And what you think?
32310And who invited it to the masquerade?
32310And why ai n''t you_ in_ bed,''stead of out of it?
32310And would n''t you rather carry nuts in your pockets for such nice little girls as me, than crawly things inside your smock to bite you?
32310And, Gwen, dear, have you finished your picture yet for the exhibition?"
32310And, please, Lady Jane, may I go now?
32310Anything wrong in the dormitory?"
32310Are n''t you grateful that somebody who could swim, even poor I, was at the pool to help you out of it that day?
32310Are those for me and so soon?
32310Are you hungry?"
32310Are you ill?"
32310Are you mischievous, too, I wonder?"
32310Are you sure you''re quite strong enough to come?"
32310Are you trying to''heap coals''on my head?"
32310Are you_ alive_?
32310As a sort of payment for Dorothy''s assistance at the Maiden''s Bath?
32310At the point where you knew you were to change trains, why did you not keep watch and inquire for direction?"
32310Baal, what say?
32310Back out?
32310But Dolly?
32310But I do n''t know which ones are; do you?"
32310But how came she to have it?
32310But is all your clothes in that satchel?"
32310But now, was the burglar real?
32310But people may travel once in a while, may n''t they?
32310But say, girl, you have n''t told me your name yet?"
32310But what matter?
32310But what sort of sled is this, man?
32310But where''s your jacket?
32310But would n''t you better wait another day?
32310But''he''d admire''to have just one before he died--""He had it, did n''t he?"
32310But, as she spoke, a hand was laid upon her shoulder and a rather gruff voice demanded:"Why, little stranger, what''s a- troublin''ye?"
32310But-- was there not?
32310But_ half did_ have sense and that is-- Who do you think gave me my beautiful toboggan things?"
32310Buttons it right around me-- this way-- so I never could slip out, could I?
32310Ca n''t I have nice feelings same as you?
32310Ca n''t eat it?
32310Ca n''t one man do same''s t''other, I''d like to know, Mis''Dawkins?"
32310Can we get a carriage anywhere and would it take us back without any money to pay it?
32310Can you see Dorothy Calvert anywhere behind?
32310Can you?"
32310Changing the subject, did you get a slide to- day?"
32310Could I-- could I climb out it?"
32310Could it be Dorothy?
32310Could n''t a body believe one''s own eyes?
32310Could she?
32310Did Millikins ever tell you a wrong story in her whole life?"
32310Did n''t the apples sell well?"
32310Did n''t the_ chef_ often say that"Seeing is believing,"when the scullery maid stole the raisins and he found them in her pocket?
32310Did n''t you know about it before?
32310Did n''t you pester the life clean out o''me till I said I''d try?
32310Did she really mean it?"
32310Did you ever see my mother, lady?"
32310Did you say the''whole school''?"
32310Did you see which way they went, Gwendolyn?"
32310Do love her and take her back into your trust, and may I go now to tell her she can go nutting and about Saturday, and may I hurry up?"
32310Do n''t that beat all?"
32310Do n''t you think it was terrible nice for Gwendolyn to give you your things?"
32310Do n''t you think so, Miss Muriel?"
32310Do n''t you think so?
32310Do n''t you?"
32310Do you like them?"
32310Do you mean that she is n''t in her own place?"
32310Do you play at all, on any instrument, or sing?"
32310Do you s''pose we could get a doctor to him?"
32310Do you suppose the Bishop has had it made, or bought it, for me?
32310Do you think I could get it?"
32310Do you think I ought to have them?
32310Do you want to be disgraced before them?"
32310Do you want to hear any more?
32310Do you?
32310Do your young eyes see something or somebody lying beyond in the middle of the road?"
32310Do''reptiles''buzz, Dolly, same as sting- bees do?
32310Doctor, what if it should be something contagious?
32310Does it rain every day in Canada?
32310Does n''t it make you feel you''re a bird of the air?
32310Dorothy Calvert, can you, will you ever forgive me?
32310Dorothy Calvert-- will you forgive me?"
32310Dorothy was frightened and surprised, and quickly asked:"How can anybody call that''sport''which is as dangerous as that?
32310Dorothy?
32310Down on her knees she went, flung her arms around the shaking shoulders, and pleaded:"Well, you poor dear, ca n''t you be glad of that?
32310Dressin''up like the Old Boy, be ye?
32310Else why should she kiss her?
32310Even if you can never like me is n''t it good to be alive?
32310Ever ride in an ox- cart?
32310Ever see a neater yoke o''cattle?
32310First start-- who be ye?"
32310For who could bear to leave behind that one last child of the great family?
32310Gilpin?"
32310Girl, what do you think?
32310Gwendolyn how dared you?
32310Gwendolyn turned toward Dorothy with a smile intended to be cordial, and asked:"Is that so, indeed?
32310Had harm befallen her favorite?
32310Has you?"
32310Have a biscuit, dear?"
32310Have n''t you another pair?
32310Have you an Honorable amongst you?
32310Have you felt any chill?"
32310Have you got anything to eat?
32310Have you?"
32310Have you?"
32310Have you?"
32310He called it''Baal,''as if that was its name; and was n''t it too funny for words?
32310He does n''t mince matters, does he?"
32310He had a dime novel in one pocket, an English sixpence in another-- And what was this?
32310He was so vexed with me because he thought-- May I go now, Ma''am?
32310He''s well now an''why should I go to harboring_ reptiles_ in my buzzum?
32310He?
32310Hey?"
32310How are you?"
32310How be ye all?
32310How can anybody help where they''re born or who their parents are?
32310How can she be right here in this house?
32310How could I?
32310How could there be under this safe roof?"
32310How dare she?
32310How dare you stay in bed so?"
32310How did you get Baal into this room without being detected in it?"
32310How did you keep warm in here, if this is where you lived?"
32310How is she doin'', lass?
32310How long will it be before we can go find the others?
32310I just stepped here to ask is Miss Dorothy Calvert staying the night?"
32310I mean your other one?
32310I wish-- do you suppose-- Ain''t there a winder some''ers nigh?
32310I wonder if I ought to take it back?
32310I wonder was the little Grace scared again, by that ridic''lous goat?
32310I wondered who he meant; but Lady Principal saw me looking in and asked me if''I wished anything?''
32310I''m safe, I''ll grant ye that; but-- sound?
32310I''m seekin''my fortune-- understand?
32310I-- I--""Lost?
32310If I asked you and your mother to come here to live, would you get tired?
32310If you must have an intimate, why not choose her from''our set''?"
32310If you''ll only remember I was n''t saucy then-- A girl you''d raised to hand, like me, could n''t really be saucy, could she?
32310In your mortal''arthly life, did ye?
32310Is Dorothy found?"
32310Is Dorothy in there?
32310Is he old enough?
32310Is it a''he''then and not one of the girls?"
32310Is n''t it fine-- fine?
32310Is n''t it funny?
32310Is n''t it marked plainly enough?
32310Is n''t she the very sight and image of Robin, the lad?
32310Is that why Dorothy went with her?
32310Is this Hall high up?
32310Is this another mystery of yours?"
32310It was her own party, was n''t it?
32310John Gilpin?
32310Just look out of window a minute-- what do you see?"
32310Leave before then?
32310Like to hear how I come nigh- hand to death along of a devil fish?
32310Looks rather rough, does n''t it?
32310Lost, you say?
32310Ma''am, did you hear tell of such a place?
32310May I go now and ask the Bishop, then tell the girls?"
32310May I talk to you a moment?"
32310May I, Madam?"
32310May I?"
32310May she and I give it?"
32310May she?"
32310May we go?"
32310Meanwhile how had the night passed with the imprisoned Dorothy?
32310Met you up with any trouble?
32310Miss Muriel, may I--?"
32310My, what''s this he clenches so tight in hand?
32310Negroes?
32310No living girl could make all that racket; yet-- was that a scream?
32310Nobody could call me all that, could they?
32310Not like the beggar folks come''tramping''by and has''victuals''given to them?
32310Now, what do you think of that?
32310Now-- what do you think of that?"
32310Old John turned his bare, bald head toward her and demanded:"What do you know about Halifax?
32310On Michael''s sled?
32310Or go to the railway stations?
32310Or the Governor General?
32310Or would she dislike to help care for the linen mending?
32310Please explain; are you''Peer''or''Lower House''?"
32310Queen Baltimore, are n''t you glad you''re poor?"
32310Queen, what shall we call you?
32310Right here and now, on the back of this letter of Father''s?
32310Right here in this town?
32310Robin?"
32310S''pose the faculty''ll offer a reward?
32310See?"
32310She asked merrily:"Is it there we keep our consciences?
32310She had accused him of"trying to kill her"as well as Gwen and little Grace; but he"kill anything"?
32310Slow and sure''s their motto and what''s an hour, more or less, in a little girl''s lifetime?
32310So I fastened''em together on the insides-- See?
32310So still that they were both frightened and Dolly asked:"How can we get him there, if they would take him in?
32310So that the sensitive girl was alarmed and asked:"Is it something that I''ve done but ought not?"
32310So you think it''s ptomaine poisoning, do you Doctor Jack- o''-my- thumb?
32310So-- Well, I suppose I''ll have to stay, then, for who wants to get took up?
32310Sound?
32310Still, as she turned to follow the teacher, she obediently saluted the physician and, glancing up into his face, saw-- was it possible that he winked?
32310Suppose he should get lost?"
32310Sure you could manage it on this steep incline?"
32310That seemed a very long answer to impatient Dawkins and she clipped it short by asking:"Then, Ma''am, where do you suppose she is?"
32310That was so funny she smiled, seeing it, and asked him:"Ca n''t you explain this, Jack?"
32310The simple country treat of nuts, popped corn, and cider had proved enjoyable to other schoolmates-- why should n''t it to Gwendolyn?
32310Then he dropped what the schoolgirls called his"preachy manner"and asked:"How do you like tobogganing?"
32310Then what do you want?"
32310This wo n''t be very different, will it?"
32310Understand?
32310Want to feel your hair rise on end and your arms get reg''lar goose- fleshy?
32310Was it laughter-- terror-- wild animal-- or what?
32310Was that what made him so top- lofty and up- steppin''?
32310Well, good- by, Queenie, with aching heart from you I part; when shall we meet again?
32310Were n''t you just awfully scared all the time?"
32310What are the things you''re talking about?"
32310What are they doing now?"
32310What did this mean?
32310What difference does it make, and who will know?
32310What do think?
32310What do you mean?
32310What do you mean?"
32310What do you take me for?
32310What do you think it was that happened?
32310What do you think now?
32310What do you think?"
32310What else do they l''arn children over in the States?
32310What has frightened you?"
32310What in creation makes you drag so on that strap and keep lookin''back?
32310What is it you want?
32310What is it?
32310What made her darling so incorrigible?
32310What makes you laugh, Winifred?
32310What next?
32310What of the latter''s realization?
32310What sent you out of bed, just in your nightgown?
32310What shall I do-- what shall I do?"
32310What sort of baby were you-- good, bad, or indifferent?
32310What stunts can you do?"
32310What was your bit of a roll down that smooth ice compared to what our girls went through?"
32310What wicked word is that you speak?"
32310What would Aunt Betty think of her heedless action?
32310What you carry me for, running so?"
32310What you doing in my house?
32310What''d he go for?
32310What''s it, lassie, you want?"
32310What''s that?"
32310What''s that?"
32310What''s the use standing here?"
32310What''s the use?
32310What''s yours, Dorothy?"
32310What?
32310Whatever are you talking about?
32310When may I, may we, go to see Robin?"
32310When''d you come?
32310When?"
32310Where are your suit case and hand bag?"
32310Where did he come from?"
32310Where do you hail from?"
32310Where have you kept him, Jack, and how?"
32310Where were you born?
32310Where''d the beast come from, anyway?
32310Where''d you come from?"
32310Where''s Robin now?"
32310Where''s your bath robe?"
32310Who are you, anyway, and what makes you stay in cubicle so long after breakfast?
32310Who are you?
32310Who can tell?
32310Who cares where it came from or how much it cost?
32310Who had done this thing?
32310Who would get it?
32310Who''ll win?"
32310Who''s the candidate you''re electioneering for?"
32310Whom do you mean?"
32310Why did I violate the privacy of Oak Knowe by setting them to search?
32310Why do n''t he come back?"
32310Why do you walk in it, Winifred?"
32310Why for ca n''t I be alive?
32310Why had she done it?
32310Why not go right away?
32310Why should she be made to feel so guilty and insignificant?
32310Why was I such a fool as to dance that jig instead of eating that pudding and beans?
32310Why, is that Ephraim a negro?"
32310Why, it''s only an hour ago, or not much more, since he spoke of it, and how could anybody go to town and back in that little while, in such a storm?"
32310Why?
32310Will she kindly advance and receive it?"
32310Will you be afraid?"
32310Will you be here?"
32310Will you see to it, Miss Muriel, that Dorothy has a toboggan rig provided?
32310Will you show me?"
32310Winifred caught the others about the waist and whirled them indoors again, first gleefully kissing her father''s bit of writing and asking:"Think so?
32310With more decency than she had hitherto shown, she finally asked:"However did you come to know so much botany, Miss Calvert?"
32310Wo n''t that be fine?"
32310Wo n''t the Lady Principal be angry if I do n''t get examined?"
32310Wo n''t you go with_ me_, dear?
32310Worst is, what''ll dame think?
32310Would Miss Tross- Kingdon pay it, do you think?
32310Would n''t I be able to talk for you?"
32310Would n''t I?
32310Would n''t cheaper ones answer for messing around in the snow?"
32310Would n''t you?"
32310Would she ever reach Oak Knowe, and how would this escapade be regarded there?
32310You are n''t real poor, are you, Dolly?
32310You did n''t get told, did you?"
32310You do n''t want it?
32310You got a box?"
32310Your duty--""Why, Lady Principal, you would n''t have us''pass by on the other side,''would you?
32310Your luggage, Miss, allow me?"
32310and say, look at the Aldrich ten-- can you see Dorothy?"
32310and should I dress before the supper?"
32310and when do you want us, Mother and me?"
32310dear, you know what I mean, do n''t you, dear Dawkins?"
32310do you mean it?
32310is n''t it good to see them?
32310may I?"
32310old woman, what''s the matter with you?
32310or your mother a Duchess?
32310ran Gwendolyn''s thoughts, and she showed her annoyance by asking:"Miss Calvert, will you oblige me by not screaming quite so loud?
32310remarked Bessie Walters; at which the others laughed and Annie Dow inquired,"Who is Robin?"
32310that style?"
27643''And that?'' 27643 ''Bob,''I said,''suppose your Rover had been hurt-- would you like to be laughed at?''
27643''But why did you take this so much trouble to find me Monsieur?'' 27643 ''But, Monsieur,''I cried, forgetful of his admonition,''you say this was a week ago?''
27643''Fighting?'' 27643 ''Have you nothing to say?''
27643''May I ask sir,''she said, with great primness, not unmixed with fear,''who comes so early in the morning with so strange, so unusual, requests?'' 27643 ''So you meant to marry Jeanette?''
27643''Then why do you turn round and make fun of Bull when he''s in trouble? 27643 ''Tis rather mean, is n''t it?"
27643''Well?'' 27643 ''What do you mean?''
27643A rather nice kind of world it was, too, was n''t it?
27643A very which?
27643All ready?
27643All right, sir,said the man, with an understanding grin, and added,"For the whole afternoon?"
27643And all this time Bull was being punished?
27643And are we to wait till she finds us out?
27643And did you find him-- the witness, I mean?
27643And does n''t Jack Wescott look splendid? 27643 And leave us home?"
27643And then?
27643And who was the girl?
27643And whom is that from, Lucy?
27643And you like our country?
27643Are n''t there any girls around here?
27643Are n''t you disappointed?
27643Are n''t you girls coming in to breakfast?
27643Are n''t you girls ever going to get up?
27643Are they just as wonderful as people make them out to be?
27643Are we all here?
27643Are we, Dad?
27643Are you better, dear?
27643Bull?
27643But I did n''t say,Lucile began; then, desperately,"Oh, please, ca n''t we talk of something else?"
27643But have you seen the paper? 27643 But he never told you about your parents?"
27643But how are we going to manage with only two cabins for six of us; little ones at that, from your account?
27643But if they were there, I just could n''t help looking, could I?
27643But the rain?
27643But what did he do?
27643But what do we care, on such a night? 27643 But what is it?"
27643But where do we come in?
27643But where is the inn?
27643But who speaks of sleep?
27643But you, the child?
27643But, Dad, how about dinner, and the theater, and all the other things we were going to do?
27643But, Evelyn, what else is there to do on a day like this?
27643But, wh- when are you going?
27643By the way, girls, have you heard about Margaret?
27643Ca n''t you just see the lights spring up and the theater crowds gathering?
27643Dancing does give you an appetite, though, does n''t it?
27643Dancing, Dad; do n''t you want to try?
27643Dear old Cap''n Cuttle and Uncle Sol''s nevvy, Wal''r-- you remember him, do n''t you?
27643Did Jim find him?
27643Did any of you see anything unusual about that chateau?
27643Did n''t I tell you we''d break the record?
27643Did n''t I tell you?
27643Did n''t it look-- well, rather familiar to you?
27643Did n''t you hear the captain say we were perfectly safe?
27643Did she say any special time, Lucy?
27643Did you ever hear such bird music in all your life? 27643 Did you find him, Dad?
27643Did you know we nearly ran down a hostile cruiser? 27643 Did you see him look at you, Lucy?"
27643Did you see the look Archie gave that''bally Henglishman''? 27643 Different, Margaret?"
27643Do n''t you girls want to come down in the cabin and take your wraps off?
27643Do n''t you suppose Jeanette has told him long before this?
27643Do n''t you think you had better go below? 27643 Do n''t you want to try it, Nell?"
27643Do you like it as much as you thought you would?
27643Do you see that young man coming toward us?
27643Do you think there is really any possibility of war?
27643Do you think you could find Henri Charloix for Jeanette, Dad?
27643Do you wish to be shown about the Abbey?
27643Does n''t it look lovely with the lights all over the place?
27643Evelyn, what have you done with my tan shoes?
27643Fine-- but who will let them know?
27643For such a little thing why quarrel?
27643Girls,she said,"did you hear her say''woof''when we clashed?"
27643Go on, Lucy; what more has she to say?
27643Got what?
27643Has he anything else to say?
27643Have her what? 27643 Have we got to give them all up?"
27643Hello, Lucy; that you? 27643 How about something to eat?"
27643How are your mother and father and Phil and everybody?
27643How can we wait that long?
27643How could I do such a thing?
27643How did he take the news?
27643How did you know what I was thinking about?
27643How did you manage to think it all out so beautifully?
27643How do you like it?
27643How''s this for a day?
27643How''s this for a storm, eh?
27643Humph, we know why they pretend to criticize us, do n''t we Marjorie?
27643I admit she could have done without you very well; I could myself, but----"Do I hear a gentle murmur as of buzz- saws buzzing?
27643I got ready in pretty good time, after all, did n''t I? 27643 I suppose I may at least be allowed the privilege of seeing you safely on board?"
27643I suppose you girls have never visited our great museums at home?
27643I tell you I do n''t know myself, so how can I tell you?
27643If we do n''t care where you''ve been, why bother to guess?
27643If you are going to be like this all summer, how on earth can I take you with me? 27643 If you do n''t know whom it''s from, why do you get all red and snappy and try to hide it?"
27643Is it there?
27643Is n''t it great?
27643Is n''t it great?
27643Is n''t it snug here?
27643Is n''t it wonderful?
27643Is n''t she dear to remember each one of us like that? 27643 Is n''t she dear, and did n''t the whole thing sound just like her?"
27643Is she coming to Burleigh?
27643Is that so, Dad?
27643Is that the truth?
27643Is that you, Mother? 27643 Is there anything?"
27643It seemed mighty funny to me to call our guardian Mrs. Wescott, and if it seemed strange to me, what must it have seemed to her? 27643 It''s enough to make one sentimental, is n''t it?"
27643It''s the first time I''ve had it on, Mother and Dad and Phil-- how do you like it? 27643 Jumped all over her?
27643Licking?
27643Lucile,called a low, unsteady voice,"will you come to me?"
27643Lucy, are you fooling? 27643 Lucy, stay near me, will you?"
27643Lucy,whispered Evelyn, squeezing her friend''s arm so tightly that it hurt,"did you ever see anything like it?"
27643Mademoiselle has been very seek?
27643May I ask our destination?
27643May I be allowed to ask what intricate and devious chain of reasoning leads you to make so unheard- of a charge?
27643May I look?
27643Mrs. Wescott, I suppose you mean?
27643My goodness, do n''t you think we''re hungry, too?
27643Nice?
27643No, she''s in earnest; ca n''t you see? 27643 No; what is it?"
27643Not quite? 27643 Now what have you been doing?"
27643Now, Lucy, what were you saying?
27643Now, what are you going to do about it?
27643Of course; are n''t you?
27643Oh, Dad, did you ever see anything like it?
27643Oh, Daddy, is n''t it magnificent?
27643Oh, Lucy, dear, what can we do?
27643Oh, Lucy, do you suppose we could possibly be swamped?
27643Oh, are we there already?
27643Oh, do keep still, Marj, for half a minute, ca n''t you?
27643Oh, does it? 27643 Oh, does n''t it seem great to be back?"
27643Oh, how could I waste so much time on sleep,she marveled,"when to- day means-- Europe?
27643Oh, is n''t it perfectly, beautiful, wonderfully lovely?
27643Oh, is n''t it splendid?
27643Oh, is n''t the view wonderful from here? 27643 Oh, is that so?"
27643Oh, so soon?
27643Oh, that?
27643Oh, what did she do that for?
27643Oh, what''s the use of raising our hopes?
27643Oh, yes, how long are you going to stay?
27643Oh,breathed the girls in unison,"what did you say?"
27643Old Charlie? 27643 Peculiar name--''Chin Chin''--what?"
27643Phil, can you really imagine we are standing here in London, actually looking at Westminster Abbey? 27643 Say, Dad, why do n''t you let Jack take Lucy in his car?
27643Say, that came in a hurry, did n''t it?
27643Say, would n''t it be great to have a little motor boat like this down at the river?
27643Say,said Phil, eyeing them pityingly,"do n''t you fellows know it''s time to eat?"
27643Say? 27643 Seasick?"
27643Shall I take the mail, Lucy?
27643She almost seems to be walking on air, does n''t she?
27643She is_ the_ Jeanette-- but, oh, how the plot thickens----"What have you found?
27643So that''s England?
27643Sorry?
27643Suppose I was n''t fooling; suppose I really meant what I said?
27643Take us with you?
27643Tell us, now-- what will you do?
27643That you, Jessie? 27643 The Abbey now, Dad?"
27643The only thing is, do you all like it?
27643The young folks are about to start the Victrola; do n''t you want to join them?
27643Then he does n''t know yet?
27643Then what did Jim do?
27643Then you do n''t know?
27643Time to get up?
27643Two days?
27643War? 27643 Was he-- did he-- oh, how did he look?"
27643Was n''t that fine, Mother?
27643Was n''t that lovely of them?
27643Was there ever such a summer anyway?
27643We are the first, then?
27643We can go on board now, ca n''t we, Dad?
27643We knew she was better, but-- oh, say, is n''t it great?
27643We''ve been here about three hours now, have n''t we?
27643Well, does it meet with your expectations?
27643Well, girls, have you got any luggage?
27643Well, what do you say if we start?
27643Well, what does it mean?
27643Well, what then?
27643Well,came Mr. Payton''s gruff, hearty voice from just behind them,"how do you like your first glimpse of the Old World, eh?
27643Well?
27643Wh- what''s the matter? 27643 Wh- what?"
27643What about her-- is she sick?
27643What about her?
27643What about him?
27643What are you going to wear this morning, Lucy?
27643What are you talking to yourself about, Lucile? 27643 What became of you?"
27643What did you mean by''thereby hangs a tale''? 27643 What did you want to run away for?"
27643What did you want to wear them for, anyway?
27643What difference does it make? 27643 What difference does it make?"
27643What do you call yourself?
27643What do you expect? 27643 What do you mean, no more left?
27643What do you mean?
27643What do you mean?
27643What do you say if we have an old- fashioned talk?
27643What do you suppose can be keeping them?
27643What does he say?
27643What good does that do?
27643What great plans have you been making now, Lucile?
27643What is it I can do for you, Mam''selle?
27643What is it?
27643What is it?
27643What on earth were you muttering about, Lucy?
27643What speech?
27643What then, Lucile?
27643What were you doing all the time with that Ridgely guy?
27643What''s all the rumpus about?
27643What''s happened to Bull?
27643What''s that?
27643What''s the matter with you? 27643 What''s the matter?"
27643What''s the row?
27643What''s the use of thinking of such awful calamities ahead of time?
27643What''s your awful hurry?
27643What?
27643What?
27643What?
27643Where are they?
27643Where are we going, Dad, now that we''re here?
27643Where is it?
27643Where is she, where is she?
27643Where to, sir?
27643Where to?
27643Where''s Jessie? 27643 Where''s my hat?"
27643Where''s that pound of Huyler''s?
27643Who in the world is old Charlie?
27643Who is n''t?
27643Whom is the first one from, Lucy?
27643Why do n''t you call it by its full name?
27643Why do n''t you?
27643Why do you have to fix up any?
27643Why not stick to the road we know about?
27643Why the Johnette?
27643Why the sudden fervor?
27643Why work when you do n''t have to?
27643Why, Dad, does that mean that we may have to fight?
27643Why, of course it is,soothed Jessie;"but I do n''t think you need worry about it not being from him----""Are n''t you going to read it over now?"
27643Why, we were listening with all our ears,declaimed Lucile; then added, naively,"What did you say?"
27643Why, what time is it?
27643Why?
27643Will I?
27643Will you ask Dad if he took my Gladstone bag downstairs?
27643Will you excuse me a minute? 27643 Will you get dressed for me, too, Evelyn?"
27643Will you go back again after the dance?
27643Wo n''t you ever learn to cover up your faults?
27643Would n''t it be fun?
27643Would n''t it be nice if Jack were here?
27643Would n''t it make you sick?
27643Yes, are n''t they stingy?
27643Yes, but how are we going to do it?
27643You are feeling better are n''t you, dear?
27643You do n''t happen to have any more of those candies around you anywhere, do you, Evelyn?
27643You do n''t think anything could have happened; an accident, perhaps?
27643You hate yourself, do n''t you?
27643You have an hour to catch the train, so why rush?
27643You know that-- but how?
27643You know you''re jealous, so why deny it? 27643 You mean real duels, where they both fight till one of them gets killed?
27643You mean that Jack says he may actually come to Europe? 27643 You mean we might be captured?"
27643You mean,it was Mr. Payton that spoke,"you mean, Major, that you think there is any immediate danger of-- war?"
27643You say the will can not be found?
27643You were dancing when we arrived, were n''t you?
27643You''re going to the station now, Lucy, are n''t you?
27643''Are n''t you the son of Charloix?''
27643''Is it because I''m going to see Daddy?''
27643''It''s just because I''m happy, little lad; so happy,''she said, and-- and-- oh, why is it that when you''re happiest, you have to go and cry?"
27643''Madame,''said I,''will you be so kind as to allow me the privilege of a few words of conversation?
27643''Must you stand there like a dog, a monkey, a piece of wood, and make no attempt to defend yourself?
27643''Pray, and may I inquire the cause of all this frivolity?''"
27643''What would you say, my son, if I were to tell you that the father of your fair Jeanette was-- a_ thief_?''
27643''When?''
27643''Why could you have not have spared the child that knowledge?
27643''You come from my father?''
27643''You mean that you were actually at the chateau three days ago and that the Vidaud woman said nothing to you of your father''s death?
27643Ah, to have reared such a son?''
27643And have you been looking for me since then, Monsieur?''
27643Are they new?"
27643Are those your feet?"
27643Are you sure that it was the right chateau?''
27643Are you sure you''re not sitting on it, Lucy?"
27643But oh,"she offered, in extenuation,"when mystery marches right up to you and begs to be looked into, what can you do?
27643But why do n''t you ever see anybody?"
27643But, on the other hand, how could I aspire to help if I remained at home?"
27643But, seriously, Jessie, what were you going to say?"
27643CHAPTER II ECHOES OF THE CAMP- FIRE"But whatever put it into your head to take us along?"
27643CHAPTER XII MONSIEUR CHARLOIX"What''s the matter, Lucy?
27643Ca n''t we, Mother?
27643Ca n''t you hear?"
27643Ca n''t you let a fellow sleep?"
27643Can you read any more, Jack?"
27643Come on, Lucy; who wrote that letter?"
27643Come, who''s first?"
27643Did you ever see anything so vivid?"
27643Did you ever see such a wonderful time in all your life, Jessie?
27643Did you ever see such gorgeous tints?"
27643Do I seem different?"
27643Do n''t ye see he''s killin''''i m?''
27643Do n''t you remember?"
27643Do you know what time it is?"
27643Do you suppose you will?"
27643Does the paper throw any light on the subject, Jack?"
27643Even if she does want to sleep, why should we worry?"
27643Everybody turned to greet the radiant little figure, and Lucile included them all in her bright,"How''s everybody?"
27643Germany sides with Austria----""War, war?"
27643Got a letter opener, Lucy?
27643Hairpin?
27643Half unconsciously, she straightened her little hat and ran downstairs, just in time to answer Phil''s urgent,"Where''s Lucy?"
27643Have n''t you thought of me at all?"
27643How about you?"
27643How could I hope to find it?
27643How long do you think they last when you''re around?"
27643How was it for my father to find out this-- my so great secret?
27643How would she look?
27643I could hear you way down the hall; and what_ are_ you doing?
27643I suppose you will be glad to get back to France?"
27643I was almost afraid----"her voice trailed off into silence, and Mrs. Wescott prompted, gently,"Afraid of what, dear?"
27643Is n''t it becoming?"
27643Is n''t it cute, Jessie?
27643Is n''t it the limit?"
27643Mam''selle will pardon if I speak with him a moment?"
27643Neat little craft, eh?"
27643Of course you are going with us?"
27643Oh, Jessie, why did you have to wake up just then?"
27643Oh, Phil, what do you mean?"
27643Oh, girls, what has she got to say?"
27643Oh, it can not be so; it can''t-- you say you found it in here?"
27643Oh, what does it mean?"
27643Phil demanded, but Jessie evaded with another question:"When are you going to tell us about Jim?"
27643Pictures in the fire again?"
27643So now Evelyn, merry, irresponsible Evelyn, said, with a gentleness that caused Mrs. Wescott to look at her in surprise:"What do you mean, Margaret?
27643Suppose she will not have you, what then, eh?''
27643The door opened quietly and a soft voice inquired:"Que voulez vous, Mam''selle?"
27643Then, after a moment, she added, dreamily,"Girls, do I look any different than I did when we started?
27643Then, leaning forward suddenly, she cried, excitedly,"Then M. Charloix deliberately made up that wicked, cruel lie that separated you and his son?"
27643Then, turning to Lucile, he inquired, lightly:"Did you get any sleep last night, or were the bumps too much for you?"
27643Then, with a shrug of the shoulders, he voiced the eternal and oft- repeated masculine query:"Are n''t girls the limit?"
27643Then,"Monsieur Charloix?"
27643To talk of something else, how did you happen to strike the old inn?"
27643Were you in the secret, Lucy?"
27643Wescott?"
27643What brought you here?"
27643What can he be?"
27643What could be more important than that?''
27643What did old Jim do?"
27643What difference does it make if we are a little crowded?"
27643What do you call them, Mother?"
27643What do you suppose he wants?"
27643What dress are you going to wear?"
27643What have you been talking about?"
27643What kind of language do you call that, Margaret Pratt Stillman?"
27643What plans have you made for the day?"
27643What then?''
27643What was it you were playing?"
27643What would she say?
27643What would you like to know?"
27643What''s that got to do with your story, anyway?"
27643What''s the use of wasting an hour?"
27643When I told him I wished you girls were going, too, he surprised me by saying,''Why not?''
27643Where can I have seen it before?
27643Where did I put my comb?"
27643Where did you go, anyway?"
27643Where may she not be?
27643Where to find Jeanette?
27643Who talks of war?"
27643Whoever would have thought it would get dark so quickly?"
27643Why are all those boys running around like chickens with their heads cut off?
27643Why did n''t you tell us while we were there, so we could have had a good look at the place?"
27643Will he not rest and partake of some refreshment before continuing his journey?''
27643With all the romance of the Old War about to unfold itself to their enchanted eyes, is it any wonder that our girls were eager for the start?
27643Wo n''t you please?"
27643Would she come?
27643and"Beastly hot weather, what?"
27643cried Lucile, and the next instant a voice at her elbow pleaded,"Give me this dance, will you, Lucy?"
27643his sister commented, and then, looking at the envelope he still held in his hand, she added,"Who''s the letter from?
27643said Lucile; but, receiving no answer, called out in a small voice, as the rap was repeated,"Who is it?"
27643they cried together, and Mr. Payton took him by the shoulder, demanding, sternly,"Where is she?"
18896About the rent? 18896 About what is?
18896Ai n''t it awful,said she, with a simper and a flutter of importance,"to have your name called right out so in the pulpit?
18896All alone, and singing to myself? 18896 Am I to hear no more?"
18896An''havint ye nivir a pair iv schissors in yer pocket?
18896An''how are yees now, honey?
18896An''thin ye''ll trundle yer hoop out to the big tree, an''lave Glory an''me our lane for a minute?
18896And I suppose it ought to make us satisfied to live whatever little life is given us?
18896And so we ask why ours should not be like them? 18896 And so, you and your mother have talked it over, together?"
18896And that was your oracle, then?
18896And want to learn more?
18896And what if I do? 18896 And what if they are bad and troublesome, Glory?"
18896And what is so rare as a day in June? 18896 And where are you living now?"
18896And where''ll you get your meals and your lodgings till you find a place?
18896And where''s the money, father?
18896And why not?
18896And willing to work?
18896And you own this house, too, father?
18896And you thought it would be good times, did you, to go off twenty miles into the country, to live alone with an old woman like me?
18896And you''ve told him the truth, like a woman, and he''s heard it like a man?
18896And you?
18896And your father, Paul? 18896 Anybody to do general housework in the country, twenty miles out?"
18896Are you ill, or tired?
18896Are you in a hurry to lose your patient?
18896Are you strong?
18896At the Old House?
18896At_ every_ sacrifice?
18896Auntie, will you go over with me to the Cross Corners house, after breakfast? 18896 Besides, with all this fearful tramping to war through the whole land, how can one feel like pleasure journeying?
18896Besides,added Mrs. Rushleigh,"why, else, should she have accepted him?
18896Bound? 18896 But are n''t there girls enough in Kinnicutt who would be glad to step in Prue''s place?"
18896But do n''t you ever get tired of it all, and long for something to rest or amuse you?
18896But why in the world do you come to the city for a servant? 18896 But your first name?"
18896Ca n''t I hold him while you undo the harness?
18896Ca n''t you be content with simply picking up things, and putting them by, for this year? 18896 Ca n''t you women tell what''s the matter with each other?"
18896Can you cook?
18896Can you wash dishes? 18896 Could n''t live there?
18896Country, did you say, ma''am? 18896 Did I frighten you, my child?"
18896Did it ever occur to you,said Mr. Armstrong,"how little your thought can really grasp at once, even of what you already know?
18896Did n''t you ask her?
18896Did she go out the door, ma''am? 18896 Did you say twenty miles, mum?
18896Do n''t they?
18896Do you dare to come and try to unfasten these buckles? 18896 Do you dare to tell him he lies, right before my face, you good- for- nothing girl?"
18896Do you know he means to set me up in these mills he is making such a hobby of, and give me half the profits?
18896Do you like that best?
18896Do you mean right off, this minute?
18896Do you mean to go upstairs?
18896Do you not quite belong to me, even yet?
18896Do you suppose I did n''t go to New Orleans? 18896 Do you think everybody ought to eat drumsticks?
18896Do you think everybody ought to take the hardest thing they can find, to do?
18896Do you think she would come over here if I should send for her?
18896Do you want to go home with me, and hang up your stocking, and have a Christmas?
18896Does anything trouble you to- night, Miss Faith?
18896Does n''t he want to come, then? 18896 Does that mean''Miss Sampson''?"
18896Faith,said Mr. Gartney,"what have you got on your feet?"
18896Faithie,said Paul, a little suddenly,"there is something you must do for me-- do you know?"
18896Friends-- are_ ye_ satisfied? 18896 Glory McWhirk,"said she, on another day after,"if you could do just the thing you would like best to do, what would it be?"
18896Going to_ train_ another, at your time of life, aunt?
18896Has Faith returned?
18896Has that thought troubled_ you_, too? 18896 Have I not a right to insist upon the wish?"
18896Have ye come till any good times yit?
18896How can she help caring? 18896 How does that appear to you?"
18896How is he, nurse? 18896 How many numbers are there to choose from?"
18896How much rent would this bring?
18896How shall I go to work to inquire?
18896How shall I know if I do choose the right?
18896How shall we get along if you do_ not_ live?
18896How should such a thing come into his head if you did n''t say it?
18896How, sir?
18896How?
18896I may go in, may n''t I, nurse, just for a good- night look?
18896I must write to my mother; and you, I suppose, will be busy with answering Paul?
18896I suppose you would quite as lief be called Parthenia?
18896I? 18896 If it do n''t, why not?"
18896If she is n''t your sister, who does she belong to?
18896In the first place, why should we keep the table about, half an hour longer than we need? 18896 Is Aunt Faith ill?"
18896Is it all right? 18896 Is n''t it right to let me try and make you happy all your life?"
18896It is n''t a_ very_ important matter-- still, it would be pleasanter to us, and I dare say you wo n''t mind trying to remember it?
18896Letters, or Latin?
18896M. S. What does that stand for?
18896Man? 18896 May I have your dream, Miss Faith?"
18896Me? 18896 Miss Gartney,"said the minister, in answer,"can you sit a horse''s back as well as you did his eyebrow?"
18896Miss Sampson, how came you, at first, to be a sick nurse?
18896Not if I sit on his head?
18896Not ill, I hope?
18896Not to- day? 18896 O Life, O Beyond,_ Art_ thou fair!--_art_ thou sweet?"
18896Out of his head?
18896Please, mum, might n''t I say good- by to the baby?
18896Shall I send you something here?
18896Shall we plan a wedding journey, Faith?
18896Sits the wind in that corner?
18896So that''s all you''ve got out of your visit?
18896So this is the way, is it, when my back is turned for a minute? 18896 So you really want to go?
18896Sure what''ll I call the baby?
18896That lovely, wild, shady road we took last summer so often, where the grapevines grow so, all over the trees?
18896That''s my name,replied the woman, as who should say, peremptorily,"what then?"
18896Then why did I love you, Faith?
18896There is a thought of something akin to them, is n''t there, under all this splendor? 18896 To- day, ma''am?
18896Was I wrong, child? 18896 We will just begin our quiet life, then, darling, shall we?
18896Well, Faithie,she cried, somewhat eagerly,"what have you found?"
18896Well, I must say!--and so Mr. Armstrong is to board here, now? 18896 Well?"
18896What ails Faith, Margaret?
18896What are you writing?
18896What can we do?
18896What did you let him do, Glory, to catch such a cold?
18896What is it?
18896What is it?
18896What party?
18896What shall I do with you, my child?
18896What shall I tell Margaret?
18896What used you to get for it?
18896What wages?
18896What was it I heard you say just now?
18896What would become of his family without his business?
18896What''s the use of taking a tough job if you do n''t face the toughest part of it? 18896 What''s your mother''s name, and where d''ye live?"
18896What''s your name?
18896What_ has_ happened to you-- and how came you there, Miss Faith?
18896When you spoke of having your hand on the mainspring of all this?
18896Where do you expect to go to?
18896Where have they been?
18896Where is it?
18896Where?
18896Whereabouts do you live?
18896Whereabouts do you suppose Jericho to be?
18896Whom do you think I met in the village, this morning?
18896Whom on earth has he picked up to bring with him?
18896Why ca n''t there be somebody to tell me what I ought to do?
18896Why do n''t you advise her, then?
18896Why do n''t you take your little sister home?
18896Why not?
18896Why, aunt?
18896Why, what has come over you, Faithie, to set you catechising so?
18896Will it be quite safe for her to go alone?
18896Will you mind it, aunt?
18896Will you mind my being here? 18896 Wo n''t she do?
18896You have n''t your morning paper yet? 18896 You knew I was back, then?"
18896You''re her spiritual adviser, ai n''t you?
18896''Cotyledons, are n''t they?''
18896''What do you call them?''
18896("What''s that?"
18896A little out of the way of most of the parish, is n''t it?
18896Ai n''t I been quick?"
18896Ai n''t he handsome?
18896Ai n''t it a splendid time?
18896Ai n''t she just like a princess?
18896An''the ould mother says,''Sure an''it is; an''have ye the little rid hin?''
18896And Glory?
18896And Margaret?
18896And has n''t it grown up from childhood with them?
18896And let the workdays and the holidays be portioned as God pleases?"
18896And set table?"
18896And sweep?
18896And the minister?
18896And was there not a white- robed presence with them, somehow, watching all?
18896And what else brought him up here after houses and mills?"
18896And what has become of Paul''s diamonds, I wonder?
18896And what troubled her now?
18896Are you going to take up that baby or not?"
18896Are you happy?
18896Are you hurt?
18896Are you killed?
18896Are you not well?"
18896Are you satisfied?"
18896Armstrong?"
18896Away over the broad face of the earth, out from such peace as this, might there, if one could look-- unroll some vision of horrible contrast?
18896Besides, it would be very pleasant; and why should she be afraid?
18896But if I were to take it and go off and spend it in traveling, you can understand that the housekeeping would fall short, ca n''t you?"
18896But is it quite safe for her?
18896But the poetry was elegant-- warn''t it?
18896But what''s the use of asking such a question?"
18896But,''I asked her,''do you_ use_ these, Glory?''
18896Ca n''t you make up some of these with me?"
18896Ca n''t you see, Glory?"
18896Ca n''t you stay put, nohow?"
18896Can I ever thank you for your courage?"
18896Come Wednesday, wo n''t you?
18896Could I have helped it?
18896Could it be among the buildings of the mill?
18896Did anybody ever trust you with a carpetbag?"
18896Did you get the money?"
18896Did you think, as you said this, how your little hand lay, otherwise, also, on the mainspring and motive of it all?
18896Do n''t you feel, sometimes, like a little brook in a deep wood?"
18896Do n''t you hear?"
18896Do n''t you think so?
18896Do not thoughts and knowledges cross, from spirit to spirit, over the abyss, that lip, and eye, and ear, in waking moments, neither send nor receive?
18896Do not two thoughts, two consciousnesses, call and answer to each other, mutely, in twin dreams of night?
18896Do we not-- and most strangely and incomprehensively-- live two lives?
18896Do you think girls of seventeen do n''t have thoughts and longings like these?
18896Do you think she''d come?"
18896Does that make a better game, or one pleasanter to play?"
18896Does the child care for Paul?"
18896Everybody looked up, and everybody''s imagination took a discursive leap among possibilities, and then everybody, of course, asked"Whom?"
18896Faith wondered if it were right that she should n''t quite care to be"had all the time to himself until then"?
18896Faith, you''ll go with me, by and by, wo n''t you, and help me find the way?"
18896Faithie-- I have never told you yet-- will you be frightened if I tell you now-- that I am not a poor man, as the world counts poverty?
18896For her, poor child-- baby that she still, almost, was herself-- who amused, or contented her?
18896General housework?"
18896Go on-- down through the years-- needy and waiting, and never find or grasp that which a sure instinct tells them they were made for?
18896Had he bethought himself better, and did he seize the opening to give vague warning where he might not speak more plainly?
18896Had he really begun to count on this?
18896Had n''t I better?
18896Had she no longer a right to say no?
18896Had she not missed, perhaps, some of her own work, when that work was easier than now?
18896Had she not thought too much of what might be coming?
18896Has Care''_line_ been here after me?"
18896Have you any notion of him for a husband?"
18896Have you heard of anybody''s wanting it yet?"
18896He will get well, wo n''t he?
18896He''s been here, has n''t he, child?"
18896How came that rigid look, that deadly paleness, to his face?
18896How can I let them receive me as they do-- how can I go to them as I have promised, in all this indecision?"
18896How can I, with my head in the pillow?
18896How can we think of buckwheats?"
18896How did his world look to him?
18896How do you do?"
18896How else are you to get along?"
18896How long could she fight off death?
18896How long has all this been discussing?"
18896How long would it be first?
18896How much in the bank, and everywhere?"
18896How narrow your mental horizon is?"
18896How often could I come to town?"
18896How shall we get in?
18896How_ can_ we be left without a cook?"
18896However came you here?
18896I s''pose you ai n''t had none?"
18896I think your mother intends accompanying him?"
18896I was talking to her, the other day, about doing coarse work, and living a narrow, common kind of life, and what do you think she said?"
18896If you had a home to live in, say, and money to spend?"
18896In this strange, second life of ours, that replaces the life of day, do we not meet interiorly?
18896Is that it?"
18896It is n''t all quite over?"
18896It''ll last, wo n''t it?"
18896It''s English fashion, ai n''t it?"
18896It''s empty, is n''t it?"
18896LIFE OR DEATH?
18896Life Or Death?
18896May I come again, by and by?"
18896Must I take silence as I please?
18896Must she wait here, helpless, for the fiery death?
18896Must we be more dainty about''meat that perisheth''?"
18896Must you really have new gloves and slippers, both?"
18896Now, why not send him off at this very time?
18896Or about what ought to be?"
18896Or has she melted down into the carpet?
18896Or was it that a new wine had been given into Faith''s life, which would not be held in the old bottles?
18896Or, had his habit, as a man of thought, discerning quick meaning in all things, betrayed him into the instant''s forgetfulness?
18896Or, lay the danger nearer-- within these close, contiguous walls?
18896Or, was she bewildered, now, out of the discernment of what was still her heart''s desire and need?
18896Packed up for a journey?
18896Pranker?"
18896Rushleigh?"
18896Seen him anywhere?)
18896Shall I bring him in?"
18896Shall I try to give you a glimpse of quite another young life than Faith Gartney''s?
18896Shall you be afraid?"
18896She could not have sent for her in the hope of keeping her merely to wait upon her wants as an invalid, and relieve Glory?
18896She felt the present duty upon her; and how could she rebel?
18896She ought to have known her own mind better?
18896She was very weak, you say?
18896She''s a regular little brick, though; ai n''t yer, Jo?"
18896Should she find her way to the great bell, ring it, and make an alarm?
18896Should there never be another Fanny Burney?
18896So that it is the spot where God has put you, and the work He has given you to do?
18896So, ye''ve found yer schiasors, have ye, an''let yersel''loose out o''the bag?
18896Supposing you do for a little while?
18896That even mind itself is scarcely conscious of?
18896That she could not so keep down its spirit- meaning, that it should not flash, electric, from her soul to his?
18896That she should have gone down from her dreams into a plain man''s life, and made a plain man happy?
18896The second wedding was close at hand, and would she not come down?
18896Then he said:"Do you know what you are talking of, daughter?"
18896Then where''s the sense?
18896Think they''d have a girl like you?
18896Till help came?
18896Was God punishing her for that?
18896Was anything wrong?
18896Was he to take it back, or place it on her finger as a pledge?
18896Was her aunt aware of symptoms in herself, foretokening other or more serious illness?
18896Was her mind quite clear at the last, ma''am?"
18896Was it all just so, as Saidie had said?
18896Was it from one of these the glare and smoke and suffocating burning smell were pouring?
18896Was it professionally that she wished to see her?
18896Was it that always, when the decisive moment approaches, there is a little revulsion of timid feminine feeling, even amidst the truest joy?
18896Was she to blame?
18896Was she uncertain-- inconstant; or had she spiritually outgrown her old attachment?
18896Was there a height in his nature answering to the reach of hers?
18896Was there a twilight, other than that of day, softening, also, around her?
18896Was there ever anything so strange and beautiful?"
18896Was there none to acknowledge it?
18896Was this all life had for her, in its holiest gift, henceforth?
18896Was this young man worthy of a blush from Faith?
18896Were these two to go on, dreaming, and calling to each other"through the dreamland,"and never, in the daylight, and their waking hours, speak out?
18896What business should I have where there was nothing wanted of me but to go to bed at nine o''clock, and sleep till daylight?
18896What can I do?"
18896What could it be that Miss Henderson wanted with the nurse?
18896What danger is about you, child?"
18896What danger is about you, child?"
18896What did she say?"
18896What do you mean?"
18896What do you mean?"
18896What do you say to that?"
18896What do you think of that?"
18896What do you want to see it for?"
18896What do_ you_--?"
18896What does the doctor say?"
18896What else could Paul have done?
18896What harm in lying down somewhere in a corner, for five minutes?
18896What if I do n''t love you as I ought?"
18896What is it?"
18896What is it?"
18896What kind of a place do you want?"
18896What made Faithie a bit sober, all at once, when the key was turned, and they passed on, out under the elms, into the lane again?
18896What made her especially rejoice that Saidie and the strawberries had not come yet?
18896What mattered the mass meetings, and the shouts, and the guns, along those shores of the Mexican Gulf?
18896What ought she to do?
18896What put such a question into your head?
18896What sends you here?"
18896What sent you here?"
18896What spasm of pain made him clutch the pamphlet he held with fingers that grew white about the nails?
18896What then?
18896What was this, then, that she felt, as he came near, and nearer?
18896What was to be done?
18896What will you?
18896What"high and holy work"lay waiting for her?
18896What?
18896What_ shall_ we do?"
18896Where could they be, indeed?
18896Where is it to be?"
18896Where is my mother?"
18896Where is the key?"
18896Where?"
18896Whether such demonstrativeness and exclusiveness of affection was ever a little irksome to others as to her?
18896Whither, and how far apart, trended they now?
18896Who do you belong to?"
18896Who has not blushed at the self- suspicion of blushing?
18896Who has not blushed at the simple recollection of having blushed before?
18896Who shall attempt to bring into accord the seeming contradictions of a woman''s heart?
18896Who''ll know what great things I''ve been wishing and planning, when I''ve nothing to show for it but just being late to breakfast?
18896Who?
18896Whose plan is it, pray?"
18896Why I did n''t get married, perhaps, and have folks of my own to take care of?
18896Why could she not be sure of her feeling now?
18896Why could she not feel happier?
18896Why did she feel, that if she should speak a syllable of it now, the truth that lay behind it would look out, resistless, through its veil?
18896Why do n''t ye quit this?"
18896Why do n''t you both go home?"
18896Why is n''t it just as real?"
18896Why not?
18896Why should she, more than others?
18896Why, Glory, what are you thinking of?"
18896Why, what has become of Prudence?"
18896Will you go, Faith?"
18896Will you help me to make a home here?"
18896Will you keep me?"
18896Will you not tell me?"
18896Wo n''t he be watching every mail?
18896Wo n''t she lam you when she hears that?"
18896Would he not miss a something in her, also?
18896Would it have been better that she should?
18896Would it never be otherwise?
18896Would n''t I be glad to?"
18896Would she even encumber his plans, if she clung still to her maidenly life?
18896Would she wrong him more, to give him what she could, or to refuse him all?
18896Yes-- I will take a bit of chicken, I think; and-- what have you there that''s hot?"
18896Yet what was to become of the great scheme?
18896Yet, must she needs insist on the greatest, the rarest, that God ever sends?
18896You have saved me half my property here-- do you know it, child?
18896You will let me write, Faith?"
18896You''re eighteen, ai n''t you?"
18896_ What_ should she do?
18896and it is n''t drumsticks?"
18896are the southern curtains drawn?
18896do n''t you hear?"
18896ejaculated an energetic female voice within, to an accompaniment of swashing water, and a scrape of a bucket along the floor;"what''s wanting now?
18896have ye the pot bilin''?''
18896have you seen it?
18896how much had father and mother seen and understood?
18896may n''t we take our wedding journey?"
18896must there be another?"
18896or any time?"
18896or city?"
18896or woman?"
18896said Glory,"I ai n''t sure whether I was meant to tell; but do you know what the minister has asked Miss Henderson?
18896said Mr. Gartney, catching his wife''s hand, as she came round to find a seat near him,"are you really in the plot, too?"
18896said Paul''s father, a little suddenly, at last--"do you know how true a thing you said a little while ago?"
18896she cried, at her waking, presently,"was ever anything so perfect?
18896stand for?"
18896what does the Western Road pay this time?"
18896where have you nursed that?"
18896· · · · ·"What is this Kingdom of Heaven?
18896· · · · ·"What matters, then, where your feet stand, or wherewith your hands are busy?
22225''Does he trust you?'' 22225 ''Gran''dad,''says I,''would ye hev a Cragg accep''charity, even to the makin''of a dress?''
22225''Will he stick?'' 22225 A young woman?"
22225Ai n''t yo''gwine git dem trunks home to- day?
22225All of it?
22225All?
22225Am I to be left out of all this thrilling mystery?
22225An''he slammed the door in yer face?
22225And Old Swallowtail is your father? 22225 And after that?"
22225And did you learn anything?
22225And does he carry anything with him?
22225And does he walk more than one night?
22225And does n''t that make him cross, Ingua?
22225And how did you happen to find it, Gran''pa Jim? 22225 And she''s_ sure_ it were Ned Joselyn she saw?"
22225And this is the nearest railway station?
22225And why do these men operate a printing press in a secret cavern, unless they are printing counterfeit money?
22225And you are going into the enemy''s camp to- night?
22225And you have been down there, investigating?
22225And you think he was angry when you accused him of neglecting Ingua?
22225Are n''t you glad you did n''t run away?
22225Are you plannin''to take me away from here, Mama?
22225Are you ready to go to Miss Huckins''?
22225Are you sure of that, Ingua?
22225Are you sure of that?
22225Breakfast? 22225 But do not theories often lead to facts?
22225But is n''t this rather-- er-- irregular?
22225But what could Cragg''s Crossing have done without you?
22225But what have I said in my madness, and what did my words imply?
22225But why does he receive and answer so many letters?
22225But you will make inquiries?
22225But-- why all this secrecy, Daddy?
22225But_ are_ they justified?
22225Can he walk yet?
22225Can you get in unaided, or do you wish Uncle Eben to assist you?
22225Could he be prosecuted for sympathizing with his own race?
22225Crazy?
22225Did he ever again try to choke you?
22225Did he ever do that?
22225Did n''t I ask de stoahkeepeh what to pay Joe Brennen foh bringin''oveh dem trunks, an''did n''t he say a dolleh is big pay foh such- like a trip? 22225 Did n''t I say he kep''it to himself?"
22225Did n''t I say the devils pick on_ me_ sometimes?
22225Did n''t Uncle Eben tell you?
22225Did n''t he tell you?
22225Did n''t see anything to make ye nervous, durin''yer walk, did ye?
22225Did you ever try to cross at such a time?
22225Do n''t we hev to do the dishes?
22225Do n''t you get enough to eat?
22225Do n''t you remember giving me a ride yesterday in the Hathaway automobile?
22225Do n''t you remember me, Mary Ann? 22225 Do ye mean Gran''dad, er_ me?_""I mean you.
22225Do ye want me choked, or killed?
22225Do you always hear him?
22225Do you feel anything against your side?
22225Do you know anything about the history of the place, Gran''pa, or of the people who live in your tiny, forgotten town?
22225Do you know who I am?
22225Do you know,said Ingua one day, in confidential mood,"I have n''t had the devils since that time I started to run away and you stopped me?
22225Do you like him, Ingua?
22225Do you mean that you doubt my evidence?
22225Do you mean to play square, this time?
22225Do you mean to say you''ve discovered all this in the two days since you''ve been here?
22225Do you think he suspects who you are?
22225Do you think,remarked Mary Louise,"there is ever any excuse for stealing?"
22225Does he get many letters, then?
22225Does he own Cragg''s Crossing?
22225Does her grandfather''s influence seem to be evil, then?
22225Does n''t he ever laugh?
22225Does n''t your granddaughter need some sewing done, sir?
22225Does she know now where her husband is?
22225Does your grandfather ever go away from here? 22225 Eh?
22225Eh? 22225 Forgotten?
22225Goin''to stay, sir?
22225Gran''dad has?
22225Gran''pa Jim,said she, thoughtfully buttering her toast,"do you think it''s right for Josie to be wandering around in the dead of night?"
22225Had dinner?
22225Has he a business, then?
22225Has she been complaining?
22225Have n''t I warned you against the danger of imagination? 22225 Have n''t the stones a value, for building or something?"
22225Have n''t you caught me at the job?
22225Have you a spade?
22225Have you any theory, as yet, Josie?
22225Have you discovered anything more than you have told me?
22225Have you ever seen him come out, or go in?
22225Have you seen to- day''s papers?
22225Have you told her anything about your gran''dad?
22225He''s a queer fish, ai n''t he?
22225Highflyin''name, ai n''t it? 22225 How can I, when he jes''sets an''glares at me ev''ry time he comes into the house--''cept when he complains I ai n''t doin''my work proper?
22225How d''ye know, Josie?
22225How did you enjoy your first evening in society?
22225How far is it from here to Cragg''s Crossing, then?
22225How is Aunt Polly, and how is your''rheum''tics''?
22225How is your grandfather this morning?
22225How long ago was that?
22225How much do you charge a day?
22225How much money have you taken from your grandfather?
22225How should I?
22225How''d ye happen to owe him anything, Josie?
22225How''d ye know? 22225 I ai n''t, eh?"
22225I do n''t suppose you could find a bit of red thread?
22225I wonder what was in that package he took away with him the other night?
22225I''d like that,said Ingua, with a first display of enthusiasm;"but who''d look after Gran''dad?"
22225I-- I beg your pardon,said she diffidently;"are you the real estate man?"
22225If he is now poor, what has he done with all his money?
22225If you were hired by the day,said he,"I suppose you would do a day''s work?"
22225In that case,was her quick reply,"why is Mr. Cragg still writing scores of letters and getting bags full of replies?
22225In the house?
22225In what way, Nan?
22225Is Cragg''s Crossing as beautiful as this?
22225Is Jim Bennett the postman?
22225Is he poor?
22225Is he printing sermons now?
22225Is her vacation over?
22225Is it safe to leave our trunks here?
22225Is it so serious, then?
22225Is n''t he tall and thin, with a light moustache and curly hair, and does n''t he wear a glass in one eye?
22225Is n''t his name Scotch?
22225Is n''t it counterfeit?
22225Is n''t it enough to warrant his arrest?
22225Is that all you know about old Cragg?
22225It does look very promising, does it?
22225It''s nice she can get such elegant things so near home, is n''t it? 22225 Joe Brennan is coming, then?"
22225Joselyn? 22225 Josie O''Gorman?"
22225Josie what?
22225Knowed the Hathaways in the city?
22225Me? 22225 Me?
22225Not even me, Josie?
22225Not to his face, do you?
22225Oh, did they quarrel?
22225Oh, he can, can he? 22225 Oh, it''s you, Mary Louise, is it?"
22225Oh, what was it all about?
22225Oh, ye''ve seen little Ingua Scammel, hev ye? 22225 Oh, you knew, did you?"
22225Oh; did he walk out, then?
22225Old Cragg and Jim Bennett?
22225Old Swallowtail? 22225 Or any money?"
22225School? 22225 Senator Ingua?"
22225Shall I send you up some breakfast, Josie?
22225Shall you, really? 22225 She has?"
22225So he''s cruel, is he?
22225So the Craggs are Irish, eh?
22225That is a part of the mystery, is n''t it? 22225 That?
22225The station? 22225 Then Ingua can now buy her outfit?"
22225Then he belongs to the band of Champions?
22225Then it was n''t counterfeit?
22225Then what has become of his land?
22225Then you can arrest him for this act?
22225Then you do not wish to confess?
22225Then you''re finding your present trail a difficult one to follow?
22225Then your mother intends to live here always?
22225They seem to suit things better than common words; do n''t you think so, Mary Louise?
22225Thought you said he drives a hard bargain?
22225Uncle Eben is late, is n''t he, Gran''pa Jim?
22225Want anything?
22225Want black or white?
22225Was n''t it splendid in your grandfather to be so generous, when he has so little money to spend? 22225 Was that bill your only basis of suspicion, dear?"
22225We''re almost there, are n''t we?
22225Well, if I''m a Cragg, and you''re a Cragg, why do n''t you let me alone?
22225Well, what is he?
22225Well,he said,"wanter buy anything to- day?"
22225Well?
22225What Cragg was that?
22225What about Ned Joselyn? 22225 What are the''wakes''?"
22225What can he have done with so much money?
22225What crazy idea is that?
22225What did he say to that?
22225What did you see, Ingua?
22225What do you care, Nan, whether she is well or not?
22225What do you know about him?
22225What do you mean?
22225What do you suppose drew those two men together, Miss Huckins?
22225What do you think I orter buy with that money, Josie? 22225 What does he do with his money, Ingua?"
22225What does your grandfather do in his office all day?
22225What for?
22225What has that to do with it?
22225What is his business?
22225What is that, sir?
22225What is that?
22225What makes you think Cragg has a business?
22225What on earth can it be?
22225What sort of a gun?
22225What were the Joselyns like?
22225What''s he done?
22225What''s his name?
22225What''s in the basket?
22225What''s slang?
22225What''s the matter?
22225What''s the use?
22225What''s wrong with my talk?
22225What_ is_ your present business?
22225When can you find out?
22225When did that happen?
22225When did that happen?
22225When did this happen?
22225When?
22225Where are you going, Ingua?
22225Where are you going?
22225Where did you learn all your slang, dear?
22225Where have you been hiding since Sunday?
22225Where is Peter?
22225Where were you last night?
22225Where''d ye come from?
22225Where''d ye get so much money, Josie?
22225Where''s Ingua?
22225Where?
22225Where?
22225Who is he?
22225Who is that?
22225Who said they quarreled?
22225Who says so?
22225Who the deuce are you?
22225Who was the girl?
22225Who would do that?
22225Who would kill you, Ingua?
22225Why not?
22225Why not?
22225Why not?
22225Why?
22225Why?
22225Why?
22225Why?
22225Will I see you again?
22225Will it, Mary Louise? 22225 Will ye?
22225Will you let me know, the next time he takes to walking?
22225Will you, Gran''pa Jim?
22225With what object?
22225Wo n''t this enforced promise to Ingua tie your hands?
22225Wo n''t you run over and see me?
22225Wo n''t you sit down?
22225Wo n''t you take the rest of these cakes with you?
22225Would n''t you like to know the truth of all this mystery, Ingua?
22225Would n''t you rather be with me than with your grandfather?
22225Ye bought them fer_ me?_she asked.
22225Yes; is n''t it an odd name?
22225You are not worrying over your probable arrest?
22225You do n''t like him?
22225You do n''t mean to arrest those men alone, do you, Josie?
22225You have?
22225You suspected my father of killing him?
22225You tried to cross in the dark, on a winter''s night? 22225 You''ll come to visit me, some time, in our new house; wo n''t you?"
22225You''ll let me go, now?
22225You''ll stick to Gran''dad, wo n''t ye?
22225You''ll surely get them off to- morrow?
22225_ You''ve_ never felt the need of an education, have you?
22225''What cause are ye talkin''about, Gran''dad?''
22225''What''re ye talkin''''bout?''
22225A cent a year?"
22225A secret''s a secret, is n''t it?
22225After a moment she gasped out:"How d''ye know?
22225After a time he asked defiantly:"Well, being a detective, what''s your business with me?
22225Am I correct in the surmise?"
22225Am I talkin''more decent than I used to, Mary Louise?"
22225And can we get Uncle Eben to drive us over in the car?"
22225And how about those''O''Gorman theories''you mentioned, which you were eager to test?"
22225And may I go with, you, Josie?"
22225And then--""Well, Ingua?"
22225And who is he?"
22225And why, if she is wealthy, does she rent the place?"
22225And-- tell me, Josie-- what is all his voluminous correspondence about?"
22225Anything else, sir?"
22225Are n''t you glad of that?"
22225Are n''t you glad, even now, that you have a home and shelter?"
22225Are they not confined to mere suspicions?
22225Are ye sure it were Ned Joselyn?"
22225Are you sure that is her name?"
22225At length she laid down her book and said:"Gran''pa, would you mind if I invited Josie O''Gorman to come here and make me a visit?"
22225At the Kenton house?''
22225Because she was a stranger who was likely to decamp instantly when he let her go?
22225But I s''pose somethin''goes with tea?"
22225But about the Hathaways; what has--""And you''ve got no red thread?
22225But after quite a period of silence Mary Louise asked gently:"Did you like Mr. Joselyn, Ingua?"
22225But consider, Mary Louise, is it our duty to trail criminals and through our investigations bring them to punishment?"
22225But he do n''t spend no money, does he?"
22225But he will have to keep in hiding always, wo n''t he?"
22225But her thoughts reverted to another theme and she asked:"Has n''t Mr. Cragg a granddaughter?"
22225But how came_ you_ here, Nan?
22225But the neighbors-- the busy- bodies around here?
22225But who told you I was worthy of being robbed?
22225But who would have thought this quiet, retired village harbored a mystery?
22225But you will tell me what happens?"
22225But you''ve been playing a dangerous game and I believe my father would have killed you, long ago, if--""Well, if what?"
22225But you?
22225But-- why did you come here just now?"
22225CHAPTER IX JOSIE INVESTIGATES"Well, what luck?"
22225CHAPTER XII THEORIES ARE DANGEROUS"What were you and Ingua talking about for so long?"
22225CHAPTER XIV MIDNIGHT VIGILS"Well, how is our girl detective progressing in her discovery of crime and criminals?"
22225CHAPTER XVIII DOUBTS AND SUSPICIONS Mary Louise entered her friend''s room at seven o''clock and exclaimed:"Not up yet?"
22225CHAPTER XXII INGUA''S MOTHER"And how do you like your grandfather?
22225Ca n''t you realize, Cragg, that I_ must_ be loyal to C. I. L.?
22225Can you hear the rumble of my train?
22225Can you show me to the best room you can place at my disposal?"
22225Coax Ol''Swallertail?
22225Confederates?
22225D''ye understan''?''
22225Did Ol''Swallertail kill Ned Joselyn?"
22225Do n''t that look mighty strange?"
22225Do n''t you know, sir, of someone who''d like to move to the city, and will be glad to make the exchange?"
22225Do n''t you think I''m a good enough friend not to get you choked or killed by telling any secrets you confided to me?
22225Do you hear that noise?
22225Do you know her very well, Ingua?"
22225Do you know how many there were?"
22225Do you know the girl, Dad?"
22225Do you know what has, become of Ned Joselyn?"
22225Do you know why?"
22225Do you owe him anything, Josie?"
22225Do you think I''d let anybody get the best of a Jessup?
22225Do you think the child''s mother is dead?"
22225Do you think, Gran''pa Jim, it would be advisable for me to plead with him to treat his orphaned grandchild more considerately?"
22225Do you understand me?"
22225Do you understand now?
22225Do you wish to run away?"
22225Does he travel much?"
22225Does n''t Mr. Cragg do any business except real estate?"
22225Does n''t everyone say it''s a shame to treat the poor child the way you do?
22225Ever hear of him?"
22225Ever seen Ol''Swallertail?"
22225Ever seen a movin''-pictur''?"
22225Finally he asked in exasperation:"Do you know where I''m going?"
22225For the love o''Mike, what does my keep amount to?
22225Funny how women''ll care fer a wuthless, ne''er- do- well chap that happens to be good- lookin'', ai n''t it?"
22225Had he stood by Nan in the past, and Ingua in the present, as a Cragg should do?
22225Has Daddy sent you to help me?"
22225Has Joe a competitor?"
22225Has n''t she been sorry for it many times, Ingua?"
22225Has she made any important discovery as yet?"
22225Has your mother gone away, then?"
22225Have n''t I eyes?
22225Have you any other relatives to go to?"
22225Have you forgotten?"
22225He come in an''stood while I shut the door, an''Gran''dad glared at him like he does when the devils gits him, and said:''What-- more?''
22225How did it happen that Colonel Hathaway allowed you to impose on him?"
22225How do you feel to- day, Ingua?"
22225How does that arrangement strike you, Ingua?"
22225How long you been here?"
22225How''d ye know it were Ned Joselyn?"
22225How''s business?"
22225I found the place, did n''t I?"
22225I hope you have n''t stolen money?"
22225I suppose they sell dishes at the village store, do they not?"
22225I''ve guessed, myself; but what''s the use?
22225Immediately Josie pounded upon it with her knuckles and a voice demanded:"Who is there?"
22225In what way?"
22225Ingua sidled closer to Josie and finally said in a trembling whisper:"Ye would n''t git Gran''dad inter trouble either, would ye?"
22225Is Mr. Cragg your grandfather, then?"
22225Is he good to you?"
22225Is it not so?"
22225Is it to mend with?"
22225Is n''t it an absurd costume, Gran''pa Jim?
22225Is n''t it queer how lives get tangled up?
22225Is she in?"
22225Is she well?"
22225It''s too big a secret for one small body to hold, is n''t it?
22225Joselyn?"
22225Joselyn?"
22225Josie O''Gorman?
22225Like a lady?"
22225Looks like Ol''Swallertail he d gone plumb crazy, do n''t it?"
22225My keep?
22225Neither of us said noth''n''fer awhile an''then he looks at me sort o''curious an''asks:"''Did ye git across, Ingua?''
22225Nice weather, is n''t it?"
22225No one''ll see me but you, will they?"
22225Now do you understand?"
22225Occupied with what?
22225Occupied?
22225Old Swallowtail?
22225On the fourth day, as she was"visiting"with Ingua, she asked:"Has your grandfather had any sleepless nights lately?"
22225Or do you transact all your business in the hallway?"
22225Or green?"
22225Or was the retrospective mood due to the hour and the unwonted situation?
22225Queer old man, that storekeeper, is n''t he?"
22225Say, girl, what''s yer name?"
22225So she resumed the pressing of a new dress that was spread over her ironing- board and said rather shortly:"Anything I can do for you?"
22225So you''ve returned from your wanderings, have you?"
22225Suspicions aroused by the chatter of a wild, ungoverned child?
22225The child had plainly rebelled at enforced drudgery and was going-- where?
22225Then I says in a whisper:''What did ye do to Ned, Gran''dad?''
22225Then Nan turned and asked:"Have you covered your tracks?"
22225Then he looked at Colonel Hathaway and said:"What I want t''know, Boss, is whether I''m hired by the hour, er by the day?"
22225Then he paused to ask anxiously:"Does this place please you, my dear?"
22225Then she asked in a businesslike tone:"When did you get here?"
22225Then she asked softly:"Does he still walk at night, Ingua?"
22225There was a note of bewilderment in the girl''s voice as she asked:"What has his sympathy for the Irish to do with this case?"
22225Want to go along, Ingua?"
22225Was he nice?"
22225Was it Ingua?"
22225Was it because she seemed dull and stupid?
22225Was n''t Ol''Swal- lertail hand- in- glove wi''that slick Mister Joselyn, who they say has run away an''left his pore wife in the lurch?
22225Was the village named after him, Gran''pa?"
22225Was_ he_ loyal, too?
22225Wha''d''ye s''pose?
22225Wha''d''ye think?
22225What about Ned Joselyn''s mysterious disappearance?"
22225What are they doing down there?"
22225What are you up to, Josie?"
22225What became of that counterfeit bill?"
22225What could it be?
22225What d''ye think he s happened?
22225What did ye go to him for?"
22225What does the Colonel do in the city?"
22225What for, Ingua?"
22225What right had anyone to spy upon a communion between God and man?
22225When all the countryside was wrapped in slumber the old gentleman stole from his cottage and went-- where?
22225When are we to see Ingua again?"
22225When she asked me to be more careful in my speech did n''t I do better?
22225When she came to that final meeting at Christmas week and Joselyn''s mysterious disappearance, Nan asked:"Do you think he killed him?"
22225When the girl did not sit down to the table and he observed she had set no place for herself, he suddenly said:"Well?"
22225Where ye stoppin''?
22225Where''d she see him?"
22225Where''d ye come from anyway?"
22225Where''d ye git the new duds?"
22225Where''s the chick''n, girl?''
22225Where''s the money comin''from?"
22225Who else lives over your store?"
22225Who knows but I may be able to help you discover the truth?
22225Who was the girl?
22225Whoever it was stood motionless until a low, clear voice asked sharply:"Anybody home?"
22225Why bother to argue?"
22225Why did you not undertake to rob him, instead of me?"
22225Why do they call this place Cragg''s Crossing?"
22225Why do you get so nervous?
22225Why do you s''pose Mary Louise gits into people the way she does?"
22225Why does n''t Mrs. Joselyn occupy her home this summer?
22225Why not?"
22225Why should n''t I, with no one to tell me better?"
22225Will ye-- honest?"
22225Will you abide by Josie''s decision?"
22225Will you come?
22225Will you go to town with me?"
22225Will you go with me?
22225Will you, Ingua?"
22225You here?"
22225You, Nan?"
22225have n''t I been warned that the educated gentleman is the worst type of criminal, and the most difficult to detect?"
22225how''d ye s''pose I''d talk?
22225shouted Uncle Eben indignatly,"wha''foh yo''done sett''n''heah?"
43582''Who''s afraid of the big, bad wolf?''
43582A ghost?
43582About fifty yards back, you say? 43582 Abraham Lincoln Jones''s family?"
43582Abraham Lincoln Jones? 43582 Ai n''t Elsie with you?"
43582And ai n''t Miss Jane comin''?
43582And did n''t you ever go to school?
43582And had she kidnaped Elsie too?
43582And has n''t she come back all morning?
43582And have her half kill me for doin''it? 43582 And how about Hannah?
43582And is this Elsie?
43582And what business is that of your''n?
43582And what do you think that is, Mary Lou?
43582And where is Elsie?
43582And your aunt refused?
43582And, by the way, where is the box of gold pieces you stole from Miss Grant?
43582And-- all about it?
43582And-- and-- can you remember what Miss Pearson wore?
43582Any more chickens stolen?
43582Any news?
43582Any news?
43582Are these the girls Mother says I took for a ride last night?
43582Are you afraid of the storm?
43582Are you going to stay home now and leave Elsie all alone?
43582Are you tired?
43582Because, what would they do with it? 43582 Better wait and find out whether she really is rich, had n''t you?"
43582But how do you think Harry could have stolen the money if your aunt Mattie was with him all the time?
43582But how will that help us to find out whether he is the thief?
43582But should n''t I go over to see her?
43582But suppose we were arrested for prowling?
43582But surely you do n''t believe Elsie stole that money?
43582But there is n''t anything valuable for anybody to steal now, is there, Miss Grant?
43582But what good would it do us to ride with him?
43582But when did you come to them?
43582But where''s Elsie?
43582But why is that?
43582But why would he do that? 43582 But you came upon the gypsies before you got to any town?"
43582By herself, I mean?
43582By whom?
43582Can I drive you over, Aunt Mattie?
43582Can I go with you, Sis?
43582Change of costume?
43582Chickens?
43582Could he have stolen the money?
43582Could n''t he have entered before your aunt went to bed?
43582Could n''t somebody have climbed in over the porch roof while the family were eating in the dining room?
43582Could you possibly read me the number engraved on it?
43582Daddy is n''t home yet?
43582Daddy, do you think Elsie is guilty?
43582Did anything else happen yesterday?
43582Did he go right out when he came downstairs?
43582Did it have anything valuable in it?
43582Did n''t she tell you about what happened last night?
43582Did she call them?
43582Did she say you''d marry a tall, good- looking fellow, with lots of personality?
43582Did she take the rest of the money?
43582Did they steal the chickens?
43582Did you have any trouble getting away, Jane? 43582 Did you hear any of those queer noises-- I mean the kind you heard before, when you thought somebody searched that old trunk in the attic?"
43582Did you keep it yourselves?
43582Did you know she kept money and jewels in her house?
43582Did you see the girl then?
43582Did you tell her about the necklace?
43582Did you tell her then?
43582Do n''t I look nice, Hannah?
43582Do n''t the servants sleep there too?
43582Do n''t you expect to be home in time for supper?
43582Do n''t you go to school?
43582Do n''t you realize that today is the picnic?
43582Do n''t you think I better go into the house and light the lamps for you?
43582Do we all go in in a bunch?
43582Do you children know Miss Elsie Grant?
43582Do you feel equal to hearing it?
43582Do you know how much was taken?
43582Do you know where these people live?
43582Do you like her?
43582Do you mean Elsie?
43582Do you remember what kind of jewelry she had on? 43582 Do you think she could have been kidnaped, Daddy?"
43582Do you want to see William about your cow and your garden?
43582Do you want to stop for one?
43582Does n''t she ever spend any?
43582Does n''t this girl go to high school?
43582Does she know I did n''t steal the money or the necklace?
43582Does this safe have a combination lock?
43582Elsie did n''t come back, did she, William?
43582For how long?
43582Forgot all about that tennis date we had, did n''t you?
43582Fortune?
43582Fortunes?
43582Giving_ you_ the air? 43582 Gold pieces?
43582Got your flashlight, Mary Lou?
43582Got your swimming suit, Mary Lou?
43582Had n''t we better all go-- till Aunt Mattie gets back from the hospital? 43582 Had n''t we better get out a searching party, dear, immediately?
43582Harrisburg?
43582Has anybody been here?
43582Has everybody some money-- in silver?
43582Has she consented?
43582Has that been taken too?
43582Have him arrested?
43582Have n''t you been up in Miss Grant''s room?
43582Have you any plan at all?
43582Have you made out who the people are on the porch?
43582Have you seen a young girl anywhere around here-- or in the woods?
43582Have you seen any gypsies around?
43582He''s your aunt Grace''s oldest son?
43582Honestly? 43582 Honestly?"
43582How about eating some of those sandwiches your mother packed for us?
43582How about supper time?
43582How about the Pearsons?
43582How could she take a train? 43582 How could we?"
43582How did she find out about them?
43582How did you get the safe open?
43582How do we sleep tonight?
43582How do you know she did n''t do it?
43582How do you suppose she knew that I lived there?
43582How does Hannah account for it? 43582 How is your kitten today?"
43582How long do you think four hundred dollars would keep us?
43582How much?
43582How old are they?
43582I can hardly believe it.... You checked up with the bus companies as well as the railroads?... 43582 I have a lot of clothes, have n''t I, Mother?"
43582I know the place.... You do n''t live there?
43582I mean, after Harry went home?
43582I mean, all the living relatives of Miss Mattie Grant?
43582I mean-- when it is n''t vacation time?
43582If you see Elsie, will you tell her to come to our house? 43582 In the old witch''s bed?
43582Is Hannah still here?
43582Is he here often?
43582Is he home?
43582Is n''t Miss Grant supposed to be rich?
43582Is that a nice way to treat a couple of splendid fellows like ourselves?
43582Is that everybody?
43582Is that so?
43582Is that what your aunt did?
43582Is this Mr. John Grant?
43582Is this the Bon Ton Boot Shop? 43582 Is this where you were last night?"
43582Is this your kitten?
43582It is n''t true, is it, dear?
43582It is terribly hot, is n''t it?
43582It''s naturally curly, is n''t it? 43582 Just getting up, eh?"
43582Lem''me see.... Las''night was Sattiday, was n''t it? 43582 Mary Lou, are you expecting any trouble from these gypsies?"
43582May I go?
43582May I say something?
43582May I stay here till the storm is over?
43582May I use your telephone?
43582May we see Miss Grant, Hannah?
43582May we see inside the closet before we go?
43582Miss Matilda Grant is your aunt, I suppose, Miss----?
43582Miss Mattie''s?
43582Money? 43582 Mr. John Grant told you about my awful experience on Saturday night, did n''t he?"
43582Must you go, dear? 43582 My daughter?
43582My sister- in- law? 43582 Not Miss Grant''s bonds?"
43582Not really?
43582Nothing to do?
43582Now what can Max want at this time of night?
43582O.K.... Well, can you go?
43582Oh, what could we do?
43582Old Mrs. Grant''s ghost?
43582Only I thought, of course, that she already had.... Shall I try my luck next, or will one of you girls go?
43582Or do we cook our own supper?
43582Or shall we?
43582Perhaps you can tell me who took them?
43582Picnic? 43582 Quite a nice ride after all, is n''t it?"
43582Really? 43582 Really?"
43582Remember that?
43582Robbed?
43582Scream?
43582Sez you?
43582Shall I tell you the story now-- about the necklace?
43582Shall we use some of this money for carfare?
43582Since you know about the chickens being stolen, Mrs. Jones, did you happen to hear anything unusual last night at Dark Cedars?
43582Snooping? 43582 So you did take in a fifty- dollar bill?"
43582So, if he took the money, he must have had it in his pocket all this time? 43582 Still acting the detective?"
43582Still have the money?
43582Suppose I go up to the attic and sleep with Elsie?
43582Suppose he does n''t want the police notified that Elsie is missing?
43582Suppose he locked us in?
43582Suppose she accuses your husband?
43582That''s what I think,agreed Mary Louise...."What are you going to do now?"
43582The Grants and the Pearsons, I mean?
43582The boys are willing, are n''t you?
43582The lock was broken?
43582The one she lost, you remember? 43582 Then how can I help you?"
43582Then may I bring Elsie Grant home with me while her aunt is in the hospital?
43582Then something does happen after dark?
43582Then what happened?
43582Then who did?
43582Then whom else do you suspect, Daddy?
43582Then why not let the boys drive us up?
43582Then why two suits?
43582Then your aunt Grace is n''t your aunt Mattie''s real sister?
43582Walk again?
43582Was n''t anything stolen?
43582Was n''t the shock too much for her? 43582 Was that the only time anything like that ever happened?"
43582Was the spirits here again?
43582Was your aunt Grace in the bedroom at all during the afternoon?
43582We''d love to, but do n''t you think we ought to take Miss Grant''s money back to her?
43582Well, it was worth it, was n''t it? 43582 Well-- er-- you went to that dance last night, did n''t you, with the Country Club people?
43582Were any of you here yesterday morning?
43582What are the Pearsons like?
43582What are you going to do to him, Mattie?
43582What are you gossiping about, Hannah? 43582 What are you standing there talking about, Elsie?
43582What did he want yesterday?
43582What did you do?
43582What do you make of that, Mary Lou?
43582What do you say, Mary Lou?
43582What else did you learn this afternoon?
43582What family?
43582What ghosts?
43582What girl?
43582What happened?
43582What happened?
43582What in the world happened?
43582What is it, Miss Grant?
43582What mischief are you two up to now?
43582What money?
43582What next?
43582What next?
43582What proof have you, Mattie?
43582What ruby necklace?
43582What shall we do, Daddy?
43582What time is it?
43582What time was that?
43582What will be done with her when they do find her?
43582What''s happened to this bed?
43582What''s he like?
43582What''s her name?
43582What''s the best way to Coopersburg?
43582What''s the idea, sneaking in like a ghost?
43582What''s the matter, Elsie?
43582What''s this I hear?
43582Whatever would you do?
43582When can we see your aunt?
43582When did she miss this money?
43582When do we visit these gypsies you were talking about, Max?
43582Where are you going? 43582 Where did you get them clothes, Elsie?"
43582Where have you been, Sis?
43582Where have you two been?
43582Where is Elsie?
43582Where is Miss Grant''s necklace?
43582Where were you, Elsie?
43582Where''s the other fifty?
43582Where?
43582Which are most likely to have heard about the necklace? 43582 Who do you think could have taken it?"
43582Who is she?
43582Who was the thief?
43582Why did n''t you take Silky with you? 43582 Why do n''t you run away, now that you have some decent clothes?"
43582Why do n''t you sleep on the second floor too?
43582Why do you say that?
43582Why do you want to find the gypsies, Mary Lou?
43582Why?
43582Why?
43582Why?
43582Will she be sent to prison if she is proved guilty?
43582Will you come over here and talk to me a little while?
43582Will you do something for me?
43582Will you do this for me, Daddy?
43582Will you keep it out of the bank for an hour or two-- in case we want to identify it-- for a certain purpose?
43582Will you tell her what happened last night?
43582Would he steal chickens?
43582Would you tell us just how much money was taken, Miss Grant?
43582Yes, that was wise, Miss Grant.... Now, may I write down the numbers of the bills that were stolen?
43582You ai n''t a- goin''a walk, Miss Mattie?
43582You are very fond of Elsie, are n''t you, Daughter?
43582You did n''t expect to do it, did you?
43582You did n''t hear about the robbery?
43582You did n''t know we were coming for a visit, did you, Elsie?
43582You did n''t mind, did you, Miss Grant?
43582You did n''t obey her, did you?
43582You did n''t see a girl about fifteen years old in a green silk dress, did you, children?
43582You did n''t show them to her, did you?
43582You did n''t tell your mother that?
43582You did n''t, did you, Corinne?
43582You do n''t believe that stuff, do you?
43582You do n''t mean to tell me you three girls will be here alone every night?
43582You do n''t mean----?
43582You do n''t mind if we try, do you, Miss Grant-- if it''s all on the quiet?
43582You do n''t mind, do you? 43582 You do n''t really believe there is anything, do you, Mary Lou?"
43582You do n''t think I did that fiendish thing, do you, Mary Louise?
43582You do n''t think that''s important?
43582You do n''t think we could tell our secrets in front of the whole bunch, do you?
43582You do n''t think we''ll be cold?
43582You have n''t found it for me yet, have you, Mary Louise?
43582You have the gold?
43582You know who has been taking them?
43582You mean Corinne Pearson?
43582You mean you want to ask me questions?
43582You mean you''re sorrier for me than for yourself-- about losing the necklace?
43582You really mean that?
43582You really want me?
43582You surely have n''t any of the gold, have you, Harry?
43582You suspect somebody definitely?
43582You think maybe I done it?
43582You think we kept that, do n''t you, Miss Grant?
43582You were able to see her, then?
43582You were?
43582You wo n''t do anything to Corinne, will you, Aunt Mattie?
43582You''ll come, Jane?
43582You''re a society reporter on the_ Star_--aren''t you? 43582 You''re all right?"
43582You''re not fooling me?
43582You''re not going to the police and tell what you know? 43582 You''ve been reading_ Jane Eyre_, have n''t you, Jane?
43582You- all want to see Ma?
43582Your father?
43582And how could he have gotten away so quickly?
43582And how she sneaked in there night before last, scaring us so?
43582And saw the way things were upset?"
43582And shall I take the key, or will William want to keep it?"
43582And to whom?"
43582And was n''t she just furious at me?"
43582And what do you think I saw?"
43582And what would become of the cow?"
43582And will you do the same with your mother?"
43582And will you drive us as far as Dark Cedars and bring the car back?"
43582Are n''t I as pretty and as important as Corinne Pearson?"
43582Because, where would he get the money unless he stole his aunt''s?"
43582Besides, what do you know about Elsie Grant?
43582But did this colored woman hear them last night-- the gypsies, I mean?"
43582But if she was going to steal, why did she do it at night, when we were there?
43582But if the burglars did n''t take anything, they wo n''t be likely to return, will they?"
43582But what do you think, Daddy?"
43582But what''s the use of good victuals if you''re half scared of your life all the time?
43582But when was she robbed?"
43582But would n''t Elsie have heard her?"
43582By the way, did she think you two were engaged?"
43582CHAPTER XII_ Bound and Gagged_"How was your fortune, Mary Louise?"
43582Can we stay here until a bus comes along-- they do run along here, do n''t they?"
43582Can you tell me whether you took in a fifty- dollar bill yesterday from any of your customers?"
43582Come in-- or shall I come out on the porch?"
43582Corinne shrugged her shoulders and looked imploringly at her mother, as if to say,"Ca n''t something be done with that crazy woman?"
43582Could they know about the necklace, Mr. Grant, do you suppose?"
43582Did Jane tell you about Miss Grant?"
43582Did Miss Grant believe in Hannah''s theory about the ghosts?
43582Did anything happen up there?
43582Did he have a brown satchel with him?"
43582Did n''t you say that the hand that touched you was thin?"
43582Did you ever see her?"
43582Did you find Elsie?"
43582Did you learn her whereabouts last night?"
43582Did you lose the bonds too, Aunt Mattie?"
43582Do n''t you remember?"
43582Do n''t you think we can, John?"
43582Do n''t you want to come along too, Elsie?"
43582Do you remember how pleased she was that I was n''t going to sleep with you in Miss Mattie''s room?
43582Do you want to hear them?"
43582Does it suit you, Elsie?"
43582Finally she said,"You heard about last night from Hannah?
43582Gay who put the question that was trembling on Mary Louise''s lips:"Does she think her niece-- Elsie Grant, I mean-- stole the necklace?"
43582Grant?"
43582Grant?"
43582Grant?"
43582Had n''t she claimed that she had done the house- cleaning for forty years at Dark Cedars?
43582Had the girl come here to get revenge on Mary Louise for disclosing her guilt, and was she tearing her clothes to pieces?
43582Harrisburg?"
43582Have n''t you ever heard of the Grants in Riverside?
43582Have you ever seen Corinne Pearson?"
43582Have you found my money?"
43582He did n''t go upstairs again?"
43582How could Corinne be the cause of your bad health, Aunt Mattie?
43582How did you get it if you did n''t steal it out of my safe?"
43582How old are you?"
43582How?"
43582I always did suspect her.... And has she the other fifty dollars?"
43582I believe she attended that little private school, and now she goes around with the Country Club set, does n''t she?"
43582I do n''t want to drag the Grant name into the papers if I can help it.... Is he home?"
43582I hope we find out.... By the way,"she added,"you could n''t tell me just how much was taken, could you, Hannah?"
43582I mean, without giving any explanation?"
43582I suppose you are planning to go over to the hospital to see Miss Grant?"
43582If it was burglars, why was n''t somethin''stolen?"
43582If that had been a burglar, why would n''t Silky have barked when he was getting into the house?
43582In what way?"
43582Is n''t it all right if I promise to go to bed very early?"
43582Is that why you ask?"
43582Jane and I will do all we can to help you, wo n''t we, Jane?"
43582Jones?"
43582Jones?"
43582May I?"
43582Mo''chickens took?"
43582Mrs. Grace Grant-- a woman about my age?
43582Mrs. Jones saw the gypsies stealing the chickens.... Well, did they give you some supper?"
43582My money?"
43582No, I was in bed asleep, and we neve''wakened up at all.... Why?
43582No, ma''am, it ai n''t nateral what''s goin''on here, and William and I are movin''out----""What''s this?
43582Now, wo n''t that be fun?"
43582Now-- don''t you want to go in and try them on?"
43582Or does she think, like your aunt, that you did it?"
43582Or to some detective?"
43582Remember?
43582She ai n''t lost, am she?"
43582She always says she is leaving him all her money in her will-- so why would he bother to steal it?"
43582She asked,"Did the girl like the clothes, dear?"
43582She cleared her throat: why could n''t the old lady help her out by asking her a question about the clothing?
43582The girl nodded obediently, but before she disappeared she softly asked Mary Louise,"Will you and Jane be back again tomorrow?"
43582The girls who rescued Aunt Mattie''s kitten-- remember?
43582Then, if it was a woman in Miss Grant''s family, how many possible suspects have you?"
43582Then, of Hannah, she inquired,"How soon do we have breakfast?"
43582Understand?
43582Want to come along, Jane?"
43582Was Corinne Pearson there?"
43582Was dere real stones in it-- genu- ine?"
43582Was n''t there anything else in the house missing?"
43582Well, you do n''t believe any longer that she''s innocent, do you, Mary Louise?"
43582What color?"
43582What could Miss Grant possibly own, Hannah, that she''s afraid of losing?"
43582What in the world would she do to pass the time until her father came for her at five o''clock?
43582What room are you going to sleep in-- Hannah''s or Aunt Mattie''s-- or up in the attic with me?"
43582What time did the dance begin?"
43582What was it?"
43582What would be the use of telling him about her interview with Mrs. Jones, or the establishment of Hannah Groben''s alibi?
43582What''s the matter with them?"
43582What''s the matter with you?
43582What''s this?"
43582What''s this?"
43582What?
43582Where is it?"
43582Where is it?"
43582Where is my money?"
43582Where''s your hand, Mary Lou?"
43582Where?
43582Who could it have been?"
43582Why did n''t you wait for me?"
43582Why would n''t Elsie have heard him, if she was down in the kitchen, as she said?
43582Why would n''t he finish the job and leave before we came back?"
43582Why you ask, Honey?
43582Why, only two nights ago----""What''s this?
43582Why?"
43582Will you teach her, Max?"
43582Would any of youse people report me if I let this here lady''s dog in the bus?"
43582Would n''t she?"
43582Would n''t your mother let me stay at your house if I worked for my board?"
43582Would you like to copy them down, Mary Louise?"
43582Yes?
43582You a friend o''hers?"
43582You believe that your intruder was a woman, do n''t you?
43582You can keep your eye open for trouble at night-- and let me know if anything happens.... Will you do it, Mary Louise?"
43582You''ve heard of him?"