Show three men and a maid by P G f u dorm ok cs CHAPTER XVI continued 17 bo be con concentrated uttered was sam OR on his him arl yta to bendetta Ten datu detta with jill the th clock clark that no an happening would have had the power w tod to d street him what assur occurred red now W was by no means ordinary rd inary and 4 it dist distracted round him like ar an electric shock As A he bat at on an the floor passing a W ten der bar hand over at the ogg egg shaped hoped hump which had already begun began to manifest itself beneath his hair something cold and war TW touched his big fars face and ad para pan lazed him so eo e rely both chyi CURY cally and ad mentally tb that be ald did biml no move a muscle but just congealed where he ant at into at a soled hit block black of at les ice he felt vaguely kally that this we waa the end hit him heart stopped tor ped boiling beating and it he be elm 1 ply could not ind imagine glim it ever I 1 starting a ammo again and ad it Y your or heart refuses to beat what but hope 1 Is the there tor to you youl A at this moment something heavy and wild if d struck him la in the chest roll call nus ing him over sam something g ear gurgled id asih h matl mat cally leally in the di darkness something be began it to lick his him oves eves man eara and it thin chin IT in a sort art of ecstasy and latching clutching out he round found his arms anna full of totally unexpected bulldog bulldog G get out espered sam tensely recovering a his faculties with ft a jerk go away uth smith t took the opportunity ot of his lips havi having ng opened to lick it file roof of us mou mouth M smiths smith a attitude in 1 the matter site was waa that providence in its all seeing wisdom 1 I had sent mem him a hadaa hu man bent being at a moment when he had tell deluc bantly been compelled to reconcile him self to a total absence of such indis I 1 pen sable life adjuncts to a good gold time and aid that now the revels might calu commence mence he had just trotted downstairs in rather the a disconsolate frame of mind after wis waiting i i flag with no result in front of tt A abst easters e rs bedroom door and it nas a real treat to meet a roan man espee especially lily one seated in nuch ill a jolla and ad sociable m duin manner on the floor do r ile he welcomed amed sam like a long I 1 lost at friend between esmith old and the humans who provided him with ith dog biscuits and ad an occasionally casio nally with fill sweet calies k the there had always exl paid B state tat of mi sunder iuan standing which alch no 0 words al eon could d remove the position of the bam humana ia we was I 1 quite oft clear the had and elected I 1 I 1 to A hla him present position on an a watch dog ticket they expected him to b be one 0 ot a those dogs dag who sho roue alie a I 1 bouse am and save sale the spoons ahry y I looked ilind lind in 10 4 oln jh him to on id pin burglars g s hy th he a leg ant 4 hold on till the police arrived badah fern lili simply ply could old not grasp p such an A aall T tude mile of mind he regarded NN imal not it a a private house bills but as a ucha social club and was use utterly unable to see get any fal difference stance between the human be ings ing he knew and the strangers who dropped dropp it in tor for a late chit after the place piece was ached up he had no 1 in ran on of biting sam pam the idea never amer entered his liked head at the present moment what hot he felt about so sam was ron th that he was A one of the b baxt fellow a lie h had it met ever met and that I 1 tie he loved him like B X brother 8 sam a at to in his him uan erred state lure caile A not at bring ld himself lf to share ban these 1 I A amiable sentiments he was s th thinking inkin bitt riv that tt sharer ebster hoe have liml bell the intelligence I 1 to warn tam him of bull dm cogs on an the pre premises M nes it u was as j jut jt ju t the sort it of a headed tiling thing fell fellows did forgetting facts like ilke that he me scrambled r stiffly to his feet and tried to pierce the dot knees that hemmed him 1 in he ignored smith ob ho snut out fled port hely will about lit his ankles and made for far the slightly less black oblong which thich he twit took to be the door radius leading into the llie hill bull he I 1 to moved bcd us war lly but not at warily enough to prevent him calmon cannoning laft I 1 anco and add almost upset ting a small tahl table with RIM a I 1 vase OR on it the table tracked rocked and d the vase 7 arup jumped A ed and the first bita bit of I 1 I 1 luck alk that I 1 had ad co ie A to in fam that A right night 1 as w 1 hen he reached out at at a venture an and wall butare board 1 it just as it was about to bound onto to the tee carpet pat no lie food tarr shaking the us nar bowness or of the he pi I 1 turned A mail fit libin cold if he be hid d her been an instant I 1 later ter there would world h have be been a loud land enough to t take w she a dozen damen sleeping houses house this sort of thing could not 11 go on OB ile he nil roust at have light it adit b be e a cie it there might he a chonce argame of if somebody upstairs swing ing it sail and iran coin in ing down to investigate hot but it was a risk that must be taken 11 lie deif nd to go 0 on stumbling mumbling about in this dirk mea a adv longcr ager us he groped his wnm AV Iju with infinite earn care to the door on the wall sall adjoining lillon which he presumed the electric light g switch would it he it 0 wai henrly ear t ten ara is since I 1 he be had lint last been maid inside I 1 1 litt alts and it never ole occurred arced to him 1 that in thia IF s eit I aids cpr ada 1 I ive tg age even a woman m I 1 tike ik hl awl adeline of mam whom lie be could cd bmat bellve al 1 most moat anything would all I 1 still be uslie C candles dies and oil larn lamps as am a geuns of Illum illumination lall ills I 1 and only drub anns the an ann where it was ras it most holes near the door 1 it 1 Is odd add to reflect thol as h his ahu flegm touched the file ima a ammus dell cloua feeling of rail detlef came am to baduel all blur lowe 1 his misguided young man n me actually t bally felt at that mo am most that his troubles were over he stilled smiled as aa he placed a thumb on an ill alie knob led and aled he shoved strongly tr only and sharply and aid there leaped nt 1 him out bit of if the darkness dark neBS a blare of 11 music ale which appeared appealed to him ill den and it quit slid lid it teemed seemed t to wrap up itsu round him it I 1 was all athe over pic in B s angl 91 miam instant if alie world bad one me vast bellow of at bostl 11 i lood arx d hy by hig ho almit h a tood ther imam frozen h be ar dc d S 0 i iu know k U nor cm on aoe say my he h long ant he would have tood stood there had bad a further CORK a to lilt ills him so an tice elwa where diere but BIR suddenly Budd eniy drown las 19 even 1 to the IP u cancer concert there om came tr from a to somewhere here upstairs the mat or of a sun gun ind who when he h heard board i that flint sam so a rigid limbs limb relaxed and ad a violent 1111 1 activity d descended dd upon pan him he bounded out into the hall bell ibeling to right eight and to left tor far a h hiding filing place p lace our one of 1 the th aults in ot of armor air which bad hem been famil familiar at to him in him hi roomed foamed up to tn front of him sm and with the sight eight came the recollection lection of how aha a me mere child on an hla him lint visit viett to pl playing ethl hide and seek with cousta eustace he had C concealed iid I 1 himself naif inside thin very aalt it U and nil had bad not at only baffled eustace through I a mour ion summer all evening but bar bad wound round up by almost seeking sea him into a de eft cline iff holing at him through the laor ot of the helmet happy days hap hall py d dais 5 he leaped nt at the lift aalt of py antior U M the th helmet hc t waa tight it fit but ile he managed to t 0 get ct bla id head h ad into 1 M it at 1 hilt and the body ot at the fin thine thin van quite quit roomy V y think beere aid sum sam ue ll 11 was nol at comfortable but comfort just a t then it waa not at his him primicy need led smith the bulldog well with th the walt av things thing had happened sat ant bonn slightly to await del episode four 11 lie had bad apt of long to unit ft alt in a few ralles ral les the hall bull had filled A up aarel 0 there here was A mr Mort monomer lame 1 la ill ills shirt sleeves MP bennett in hla his pajamas rod and a de n mrs hight a a traveling cost costine coste e jarie jane iara at with th 11 4 11 I 1 u a single instant tho the world had be 5 come coma oni or VIM vast bellow of good by her elephant gun gap and billie in 1 a din dl nr act drome dress smith welcomed elc omed thiem the all 11 imp irti ally somebody so lit a 8 lamp red and mrs alg Is nett stared speechlessly a at the a mob 1 I 11 mr bennett barnett I 1 mr mortimer I 1 1 M mrs Higa ettl I 1 are m ou mu doing here hem 1 alia I in hignett sew herself A up st at air klimt MI an odd add question mr ile mord roer A I 1 I 1 me am 1 in my A jovn A house 17 I 1 but iou ma rented it to me for r the did summer at least your ron did be eustace let you Nn allon for far the slimmer amerl 1 said mrs HiL gilnett nett carcil ulous ti jane hubbard returned from the drawing room uh where she lead bet been ze switching t off if the 1 I orches b let tilon to 0 au a la let t US tall talk all that oer mer coolly 11 to ta morrow a A w slie she said aid the point now it that met there are burglars in the house barg burglars I 1 A i 1 tried j mr me bernall bennett 7 fugit agnit I 1 thought t it if waa ou we ahat 1 intern er n il if In instrument mortimer idi hat t on earth should I 1 play 1 I it for ai this title time of if nimitr a said it mr air morti in alid it appeared ipp eared only too evident that the two A old were an aaen on an the urge of an one of their thair full fall inga ing out at im but to rane Huli hard emerts air once more a I 1 ids practical minded girl disliked 1111 ked the introducing of side issues into the conver convenuto sloe she HUB a there to talk about ban burglars and she he in to do d an 1 I 1 or goodo mike B ilce stop it she said almost pet distill for one arm jwj a 0 o superior to t man emotion 1 1 llie I here rell 11 be ime ot of if time quarreling fr fi r mamoru row just nov an ue e e got t to ab nb fliehe th im I 1 m out not quin qua nehn eling said lit mr ber ben nett I 1 lea ag 3 iou an lire am abuid lit mr M mord Uirt luer I 1 I 1 in bof not 11 nm are am hunt oi aric 1 I m not nor arguing t jo nu ahre ra 1 I 31 n ant at joan jane hubbard had bad p me eiery noble quality which a main can pol poa mose sit the centi exception Cep ti of patience pa tiene A patient R woman vaida halt haft flood ad by shela kinK tram train interrupting the dla die logue jane hubbard a ro busier course via 11 to im raise the do elephant a print point it at 1 hie I a front door and pull the trigger 1 1 I thought that would top step A I 1 ahe said rid complacently DI as the dleo awo and mr me bennett bannett had fin dished leaping I 1 into M t the she air she in aerated led a fresh cartridge dge mid ad sloped coped arms arar now the question eddium la is Y you 1 A made me m bim my tongue fjald I mr bennett deeply so served you right light I 1 aa uld d jane picc plc cry now the be quest in he hav I 1 the W fellow 1 lot got away or km ara they the lita las on la A ill the basgall I 1 think they re still till la in the b house the rh police 1 exclaimed M mr be ben nett mett forgetting his him lacerated bonem lariats and 4 him hi that oher gm grievance area we W mical at armaral Buni tooD the no police polle alp I 1 I 1 I 1 bald jd mrs mn birett with drilling drawing her f basold a baze e front AM th dyrr th rugged hole bole tn in the mind front door th h cost cast of IP repairing 1119 which she had been mentally assessing is we must ind bead for A the police nt at no once 11 we don I 1 r really fly need mrs thenia mak you anew aid jane jan I 1 if you 11 all 11 go to te bed and just leave me to to in potter patter round with my gun gan and blow the whole houle to t lae pieces l anad lit al mm hignett hirai a it tartly she had bad begun began to r revise tat her original estimate of t this him girt girl to her a as sacked and anyone who went about shooting hooting holes hole in it forfeited her esterm shall hhall I 1 go for the poll cel cor sold billie 1 I could bring them back to in tm ten md minutes area in the car k certainly erta laly not 1 said mild mr bennett Bennet fc my daughter gadding about all over the in countrywide I 1 in an automobile at thas in ahm time A of 1 night 1 I 1 it you think I 1 ought not to go alone 1 I 1 could I 1 rake bream where hem 1 bream eald aid mr A nier let the odd fact that bream brea was not at among those present suddenly present sit ed itself to the company where can he her bar sold said billie i june jane hubbard IRA laughed had t the whole g some indulgent leash lauh of a one me who la Is broad minded along enough h to bee A ill the im hu mor 1 I of the situation dhati een cen when the joke Is 1 at her expense what K bollt girt girl I 1 am I 1 he ahe old I 1 do believe that was bream I 1 shot at up upstairs a dalre how foolish of me mak it ing a mistake like that you shot my only son am il cried mr mortimer mita er I 1 hot at him amid 71 7 1 M belief la Is that I 1 missed him though how I 1 came to do it bents beats me I 1 don on t suppose pp I 1 I 1 ve TO missed misled a sitter itter like the that ap since I 1 was waa a child in the nursery of course she he proceeded bool looking g on the reasonable side aide the visibility also I 1 good and I 1 fired fro from m the hip but it a no 11 use saying I 1 t it at least I 1 co tinie has winged him he ame J ought she shook h ok her head with a touch h of if sel self f reproach 1 1 I I shall be C chaffee chaffed h it ed about this if it comes out ant she said regretfully the poor boy roust must be in his room mom so said it mr mortimer W under due the bed if t you yoo ask roe me sat said d june jane blowing on an the barrel of her go gun and polishing it with toe the side aide of her hand d he I a all right I 1 lee leave him al alone ants and the housemaid will sweep ep him up in the morning oh he be can cant abe bel I 1 tried cried billie re A girl of high spirit it seemed to MA ier I 1 repellent that the man she wits tras engaged to marry should be displaying h a craven spirit at A thit to moment a moat ali she a despised and nil hated bream morti A mer at I 1 think she ros aa wrong cong mind van it Is not my place to critt criticize elze the little group of people whose whole simple an nals to I 1 am relating my position is merely that of a rl reporter porte but person ally ll 11 I 1 think ai 1 aliv highly a of broads breams ma tall I 1 common kenw e it if somebody loosed loomed ort all an A elephant gun gon at me tn in a dark corridor I 1 would climb onto the roof and ad pull poll 1 it I up nor after me I 1 still rightly or iiron gly that at ras bas how v billie bhue felt A and it it fleshe flash edi across her mind that thai samuel Mer marfat fat aunill el though thing he I 1 was would not at hae bole behaved z amdi and d for a moment a certain wistful ness name added itself to the varied me emo fin lions t then he enraging anul nging ag her mind led 1 a gid gand go look it if you ilk like bald aid jane A agreeably you aa amuse sour A es till fil I 1 corns a ime bach k she ran easily vp up the stalls three at n time mr MC mortimer turned to mr art tima binnett A it a all very well your sa ing K wll wil austn it t KO but bit it if she be do doean doesn I 1 t how can we us got get the powel police till the he house e v n r A on the ph phone and A nobody of I 1 dy else I 1 can drie the ear that i true me said mr air bennett aberl w a erang A I 1 m koeng as sold old ballie res resolutely lately it 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