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The room looked as if it had housed a cyclone The furniture lay in

splinters; the feminine loot lay on the floor, trampled and torn

"I'd like to sit down," Ralph admitted It was the first remark that any

one of the men had made "Lucky they can't understand me I'd hate the down, yet," Frank commanded, still in his inflexible tones

of a disciplinarian "Open the door, Pete - get some air in here!" He

knelt before a sea-chest which filled one corner of the room, unlocked

it, lifted the cover The sunlight glittered on the contents

"My God, I can't," said Billy

"I feel like a ot to," Frank said in a tone, growing ht," said Ralph "If we don't do it noe'll never do it' Frank handed each man a pair of shears

"I sharpened them irls watched

Did intuition shout a warning to the wail

arose fro voluhts

"Now!" Frank ordered

They had thought the girls securely tied

Clara fought like a leopardess, scratching and biting

Lulu struggled like a caged eagle, hysteriain her all the time