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"The devil-stick!" he cried. "By all that is wonderful, the devil-stick!",The hours passed in an uproar of fun. The table was dismantled, toys, tools, and dishes put away, and the feast had sped into the past.,"Ho, the schooner ahoy!" shouted a man, standing close to the larboard main-shrouds.,At this point, Geoffrey—who has been hunting all the morning—enters the room with Captain Rodney.,School having been closed a week for repairs Miss Gordon had brought Betty to the shining city of her childish dreams.,"Come on," said Elgin, "let's move on down to the sehoolhouse." Side by side the three passed on up the hill and down into the valley.,CHAPTER XXII. FOR THE DEFENSE.,Captain Acton broke in: "We have finer sunsets in England than any you get in the tropics.",Flags waved. In spite of Billy all shouted orders at once. The line was as serpentine as Bess’s snakes that she held high and wriggling above her snake-entwined head. Oh, she was a very realistic snake charmer! Buzz crowed and clapped his pudgy little hands; and the Lancasters’ small Chinese boy who pulled the baby’s car almost fell over himself laughing.,The inexorable portrait on the wall seemed to gaze down on the recalcitrant youth with disapproval.,His companion, a tall, thin man, grinned, but said nothing. His red hair was long and straggly; splashes of coal-tar besmeared him from the neckband of his greasy shirt to the bottoms of his much-patched overalls.,Clarence and Harry, much wrapped in white about the head, but with bare little white arms and bare little brown legs, came in solemnly and placed some red lanterns on the table. Bess posed in a chair decorated for the occasion, arranged her draperies, pulled nearer the “incense lamp,” which was her father’s Turkish cigar lighter, laid out her cards, and bent over them in grave silence..