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Foul Play

CHAPTER XXV
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Naturalists are agreed." "But I am not.

I heard noises all night.

And little I expected that anything of me would be left this morning, except, perhaps, my back hair.
Mr.Welch, you are clever at rigging things--that is what you call it--and so please rig me a bell-rope, then I shall not be eaten alive without creating some _little_ disturbance." "I'll do it, miss," said Welch, "this very night." Hazel said nothing, but pondered.

Accordingly, that very evening a piece of stout twine, with a stone at the end of it, hung down from the roof of Helen's house; and this twine clove the air until it reached a ring upon the mainmast of the cutter; thence it descended, and was to be made fast to something or somebody.

The young lady inquired no further.


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