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CHAPTER V The Red Buoy,"I have an excellent excuse," interrupted David, rising.,A kindly man held her by the hand, yet he was evidently a stranger to her.,“Oh, Mother! Mother!” screamed Johnny in terror.,Bob was asleep almost as soon as he touched the pillow. The long trip on the train had tired him more than he had thought and he did not wake until a heavy pounding on the door broke into his slumbers. Jerry King came in when he at last answered.,"Didn't I! Wait and see!","Down feedin' his pets, most likely," answered his father as he went out. A moment or two later Billy came in. The boys seated themselves in their places and ate their breakfast in silence.,"Well, it wasn't my fault, was it? I had nothing to do with it. She hadn't her head on my shoulder, had she? and it wasn't my arm was round her," says Mr. Darling losing patience a little.,At this they both laugh heartily, and Mona returns no more to the lachrymose mood that has possessed her for the last five minutes.,A little later Jane was exclaiming over a two-year-old ham that had been simmered in some wonderful liquor and larded with egg dressing, when Mrs. Johnson came in and began to unpack her basket.,"A little," says Mona. It is perhaps the nearest approach to a falsehood she has ever made.,CHAPTER VIII.—BETTY VISITS THE CITY OF HER DREAMS..