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"Deep?",“They weren’t my parents, no fear. They told that soon enough. I’d been taken in by ’em ’cause they thought I might be useful—”,“Then the folks in Washington have told you to go ahead on what Jerry and I reported?”,CHAPTER XVII.,"Mona! what are you going to say to me?","Humph! an' be kept close in the house fer a week er so, an' have to take physic an' stuff. No good, Bill!",He shivered when Cold Maker entered his lodge and drew his ragged robe about him. They were close friends.,"Dogs and children," repeated the lawyer. "Dogs and children." He stood looking away through the failing light to where a strip of mauve-lined sky peeked through the heavy tissue of cloud.,Ted was puzzled at the reference Bob had made to the Chief Engineer. “You called him Whiskers—is that your nickname for him?”,Mr Lawrence repeated his first question.,"As monitor, you mean?" responded the other, opening a locker near by and beginning to assemble her implements from a jumble of all sorts of odds and ends with which the locker was overflowing. "As merely monitor she sees that the models are posed, gets the numbers ready for us to draw when there is a new model, sees to it that we don't riot too loudly through the pose, takes any complaints we may have to make, to the powers above. But as guardian angel of the class, she soars far above our low conception of duty and propriety. Phew! Wait till you see her at it." Here her speech was lost while she delved head first into the welter.,"Yes; I said I was Mrs. Rodney.".