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Once she half turned as though she felt his scrutiny, and queer pains

darted through his body when her eyes met his

Nohen Mr Elton attacked him, he came back from his far-away

excursion with a sense of surprise that there was a present, but he

smiled cheerfully

"Oh, I' to learn the

trade of a newspaper man, and I'm afraid I shan't be able to think about

much but city news and bread and butter for the next few years"

"No telling what may happen, with his Honor, the mayor here, backed up

by the power of the press We'll ods andas if to cut short the conversation

"Can't we take a walk before Ellery and I go back to town?" asked Dick

"Go, you kid things I haven't seen the evening paper yet, and that's

ht strolls" Mr Elton dis people set out upon a path that twisted by the lake

shore, bordered on its inner side by trees that had become in the

darkness mere shapeless ht brought into sight so zenith had sunk into deeper and deeper blue, pricked here and

there with stars Bats heeling inthe

tree-tops, and the air was full of sounds that seeh every one of those trees is an old friend,

I should be frightened at the very idea of being alone a in the dark that isn't in the day," said