Roger?" asked his wi

o bed early, and, rising early the next morning, stro

is two sisters. But, as he had often assured himself, the stock was good, and the strength and energy latent in Bonny were now looming to the fore. H

ased, until his father shortly told him that

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rshly, when there was a ring at his telephon

," sai

d some one, in a jerky voice. "Have

ed his hat, and with a hurried w

id not stop to see whose it was, but seizing the r

on of police let him through. Inside was a grou

Yes we have had a loss," he said to Roger. "O

ay out and took a c

is neighbourhood. He ran up-stairs three steps at a time to Bonny's

a woman of[70] the neighbourhood,

t the boy's face wa

e said, in

d him and op

the fort, but I-guess-you'll-have-to-excuse-me-to-n

ly over his shoulder, and R

m. "Oh, Roger," she whisper

was it?" asked

to go look at it. They don't seem to know why he stayed. When the parade passed,

"He was trying to do his duty. Thank G

e kept quiet, but he doesn't think his brain is injur

ing, I'll go find out something about the affair. I must telep

erty, "and ask he

everish patient, permitted him to have five m

ying on the coverlet, a

he thieves?" aske

w do you think the dete

't k

, trying to mix up with it-he had some

miled f

to turn State's evide

did the

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thousand

l get it ba

ou're not to talk. Just tell me if this is straight-I want it for the pap

s staring after the others when I heard a little noise in the president's room. I turned round, and saw a man peeping out. I had no revolver, and I did

ed thief had asked one of the policemen guarding him:

a cat, and, first thing I knew, he was smashing me over the head with that

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," said the doctor,

at second I thought, 'Here's a specimen of the leisure class toward which I am drifting. I

on him, and backing toward the do

gently pushed him back on his pillow, and, putting a teaspoonful

and Berty on the veranda at the back of the

m more than the wounds," said Berty. "T

is going to discharge every m

arkled, then she

e old fellows?"

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d Grandma, quietly. "He

with me," said Roger. "I won't be denied

" said Grandma, with

, "the newsboys ar

ening Noose-cap-tchure of the second

e caught the second man. Rog

n ran nimbly

said Berty. "What a

t her inscrutable gaze w

He said, 'I've sometimes got mad with Grandma for always harping on keeping the family together,

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n the river, but the girl, watching her lips,

itted him for other and perhaps more severe