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"But Dad don't need it," Jim declared. "He's rich now.",“Not a bit of it, Bub, she’s only sly.”,“I can well believe it,” said Aunt Grenertsen. “People never stay at home in these days. They are forever flying about.”,"Did you see Mā-mĭn´?" asked Red Robe, when his grandmother had returned with the meat and had told him what the chief had said.,"I have failed," he said. "There is nothing left but the devil-stick.","No. I can understand your anger from your point of view.",How could Mother know that anything was the matter? for he had just sat there stock still and had not said a single word!,"You'll find out when it happens," she replied, over her shoulder. "They never know themselves till the last moment. The day classes are tame—just a speech when you turn in your candy or some such mild diversion, but the night life is more sporting, and they may put you through a course of sprouts, but they're good-natured idiots on the whole. None of us are as outrageous as we seem.",Mr. Whitney was silent a minute as he thought over Jerry’s plea for the captive.,"What!" cried Jen, jumping up, "did Dido accuse your mother of the crime?",He did not feel he was doing his share[156] towards clearing up the trouble which threatened to break. Cudgel his brains as he would, there seemed nothing for him to do. It had been his idea to send Ted off, but since then he might just as well have been in Alaska for all the good he’d been. For a long time he lay there, without finding a way out of his difficulty.,Now he crept through the brush by the roadside till he came close under the west wall. The setting sun blazed red fire at him from the windows, reminding him sharply of the hour..