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Billy's mind worked with lightning speed.,The heart of Julia beat quick.,Oh!,May not be a hardship too great,And now what remains to be told? But little, I think! For my gentle Mona has reached that haven where she would be!,“That’s the gang we’ve been hunting through[213] five counties. Boy, you’ve done what the State’s been trying a long time to do. The reward’s a good lump; if we bag the game you shall have your share.”,“Ain’t she her own aunt?” hazarded Mr. Wopp, abstractedly thrusting his hammer into his boot top and scratching his bald head with a pair of pincers.,"It is very hard on Sir Nicholas," says Mona, who would not call him "Nick" now for the world.,“The child may eclipse you in refining Billy’s language,” Mrs. Bennett said, with a smile, aside to Edith; and went into the kitchen to “dish up” the dinner.,“It’s great stuff,” he stated. “Formerly the lumberman would go into a forest and cut his lumber without any regard for the future. What he did not use he would ruin. It was not until most of the harm was done that the Government woke up to the fact that in a few years more there would be no more timber worthy of the name.”,Johnny Blossom bowed himself out and Madame Bakke watched him as long as he was in sight.,CHAPTER IV.—WASH-DAY AT MRS. WOPP’S..