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Then follows an uncomfortable silence.,"Well?" says Violet, who is smiling, and seems to see a joke where Mona fails to see anything amusing.,The girl shuddered. "I know they hang for piracy!" she exclaimed. "It is what must happen if you convey him to England.",Just think! There they sat, in the sunshine on the wharf, eating from their baskets and having such a good time; and here was he, alone, naked, and so frightfully cold. Boo-hoo-hoo! He wanted to go home to Mother. He might crawl home through the gutters—but what would Mother say if he went home without any clothes? Boo-hoo-hoo!,Mark the purple streams that flow!,Patricia occupied herself getting her tools from the convenient shelf on her own locker, hoping that the talk was not to end there.,"Mona! Do you want me to stay?" asks he, suddenly, taking her hands in his. "Tell me the truth.",The sun shone brightly and the atmosphere had that brilliant clarity, peculiar to the prairie. Several chattering magpies strutted on the grassplot between the house and the barn. Betty ran around to the further side of the house where lay the garden. Here Moses and his mother were already hard at work.,"What did I miss?" called Elinor's voice from the other room, where she had come in unnoticed.,Suddenly he woke with a start. Somebody was rapping gently on the shutters of the middle window. Glancing at the clock, Jen saw that it was three in the morning, and wondering who could be outside at so untimely an hour, he rose to open the window. With care, begotten by old experience, he picked up his revolver and held it ready while unbolting the window shutters. When they were thrown open he saw a white figure with outstretched hands standing before the window.,As the four descended the air in the gorge became clearer. They approached the hut stealthily; and when in full view of the closed door, the Sheriff told Billy his part of the work was done, and ordered him home out of the fire.,"On the night that the body was stolen," continued Jen, deliberately, "Jaggard was drugged.".