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He lifted the board, trying its weight. Could he ever get it safely placed? Higher he lifted it, and began to let it drop; but he saw that if the other end missed the window sill, it would pull him down to the court below. Frantic, he stared about for help, for inspiration. He dared not wait till the passers came in hearing; the sound of his voice calling might too soon rouse men inside, make them shoot perhaps. As it was he expected every minute to see a swarthy face appear, a hand with a knife or pistol. It was not for himself he feared, but for May Nell, the little girl who for some strange reason was worth something to these desperadoes, and whose life would be on his soul if he did not save her. “Golly! There’s nothing skewgee about that fortune,” Billy commented, encouragingly. Yet almost before the prayer was breathed the child with incredible swiftness scudded across the bending board and stood safe by his side!.
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“But I don’t like them to do that, Billy. They ought to stay dead till the play is done. When I see them smiling I feel as if—just as I would if you made fun of me when I cried for my mama,—it takes all the true out of the play.” “Now hold his head between your hands and tell him not to touch me.” CHAPTER XIV.—BETTY AMONG THE FLOWERS Then scartter seeds of kindness,.
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