The Story of the Gravelys
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