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CROBET The nervous system consists of two kinds of nervous tissue. One of these "Fine! Fine!" he cried, nodding his head approvingly. "That beats them all! My wife, she used to sing that song, and I liked it fine, but you beat them all!","That is the end—there is no name.","A traitor?" echoed David, with a flush rising in his pale cheeks.,It was not long, however, before their strong constitutions asserted themselves. Soon both boys were able to sit up and take stock of what damage had been done. Jerry was first on his feet, pale and a little shaky, but again master of himself.,Suddenly a match flared and the twinkling tip of light grew at a candle end and she saw a ghostly figure, its white hand busy with the candle wick and its hollow, black eyes fixed on the tiny growing flame. Instantly other matches flickered and more candles glimmered in ghostly fingers, until the room was flashing with tiny points of light, while the masses of heavy shadow trembled and surged about an array of white-clad, mysterious, skull-faced figures that slowly formed in line and, two by two, moved to the center of the room, chanting a low, monotonous song as they walked in solemn procession.，"Why, hello, Billy," he said pleasantly. "Out capturing more wild things for the menagerie?"，As soon as he shook the water out of his eyes a glance showed him what had happened. Some freak of nature had left a ledge in the bottom of the river over which the water flowed, making a waterfall of perhaps six or eight feet. So even was the edge of the fall that it had not been visible to them as they came down stream through the first rough water.，"How will it, I'd like to know?"CHAPTER XVI THE CAPTURE

"Perhaps I may settle affairs sooner than you think," said Alymer, rising. "Uncle Jen, I won't be back to dinner to-night, as I have to go into Deanminster.","But suppose that fellow Paul had not met you?" said Captain Acton.,"You again want to imply, sister," said Captain Acton with a darkling face, "that my daughter has eloped with the man she rejected.","Oh!" said David, with a sneer. "I overheard you arrange to marry her. But you'll never do that while I am alive, or Mrs. Dallas either.",“Johnny Blossom had permission to invite all his friends to Kingthorpe today. He was to ask all who had been kind to him, and it looks as if he had a great many kind friends. This is his first birthday since he became heir of Kingthorpe. Perhaps you think it is an easy thing to be that—that it means only to shake ripe fruit into your lap and to live in big, bright rooms. Johnny Blossom will understand more and more, as time goes on and he grows older, that it is not easy to be the Kingthorpe heir.,"No," murmured Mrs. Dallas, sinking into a large chair. "You are right. I have been in the sun all the morning, and only now am I beginning to feel warm, I shall certainly go back to Barbadoes.",“If I can’t Vilette can. Old Bob goes by himself, anyway.” He made a brave though unsuccessful effort to appear as usual.,“Good dog! I understand you, Bouncer, and I’m not lonesome any more.”,"My word!" breathed Patricia, stirred and chilled in spite of herself. "They're doing it brown this time!","Thank you," says Lady Rodney, coldly, letting her lids fall over her eyes.,“Lady of the Lake?” she finished quickly in a question. “Do you know that, too? I love it.”,“Well, papa did. If he was alive he’d be giving it to me about now, good and plenty.”.