Can you climb a tree ?" "I can--but I won't!" she refused flatly, her cheeks very red.
"Then I fancy we'll have to keep on in this manner.

It's a confounded shame--the whole business.

Just as I thought everything was going so smoothly, too.

It was all arranged to a queen's taste--nothing was left undone.

Bracken was to meet us at his uncle's boathouse down there, and--good heavens, there was a shot!" The sharp crack of a rifle broke upon the still, balmy air, as they say in the "yellow-backs," and the fugitives looked at each other with suddenly awakened dread.
"The fools!" grated the man.
"What do they mean ?" cried the breathless girl, very white in the face.
"They are trying to frighten us, that's all.