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CHAPTER XX. A STRANGE REQUEST.,“Oh, how stupid you are!” exclaimed her brother.,"Don't want any thanks," returned Bruce gruffly. "Your aunt would understand it. I'm only beginning to pay my debt to her, and it's going to take a mighty long while, too.","Who'd you say was agoin' to soon die?" Mrs. Keeler put her hand to her ear and leaned forward.,"Well, my plot has failed, and now I am departing to look anew for a rich wife. Also to find Dido, and get back the Voodoo stone, of which she robbed me. You will never meet me again, and I dare say you won't be sorry to see the back of me. And now, my dear major, I fancy I have told you all, and you know the meaning of the many mysteries which have puzzled you for so long. There remains only to say adieu, and remain your evil genius (now resigned), Max Etwald.",“No—no, sir,” stammered Bob, helplessly. “He wasn’t there—he’s in Las Cruces—”,“I got an orful cold, goin’ in an’ out so orften,” he complained.,CHAPTER XV,"It is the sweetest thing that could have happened," says Dorothy, enthusiastically. "Now Mona and you and I will be real sisters.","I will do my best," says Mona, earnestly; "but if I fail,—if after all my efforts your mother still refuses to love me, how will it be then?",Pshaw! Everything was horrid. The boys at school would soon know all about it and then they would tease just as Asta did. No, he would not keep that report; he would give it back to the Principal; that was just what he would do. So Johnny Blossom, saying nothing at home of his intention, went with determined step to the Principal’s house. His cap, instead of being set jauntily far back on his head, was jammed well down over his eyes.,In the outer room the learned discussion was terminated suddenly by a loud exclamation from the old doctor..