[The Terrible Twins by Edgar Jepson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Terrible Twins CHAPTER II 22/32
He did not pause to ring; he opened the front door, plunged heavily across the hall into the drawing-room.
The Terror formed the center of a domestic scene; he was playing draughts with his Uncle Maurice. Captain Baster glared at him with unbelieving eyes and gasped: "I--I made sure it was that young whelp!" This sudden violent entry of a bold but disheveled hussar produced a natural confusion; Mrs.Dangerfield, Sir Maurice and the Terror sprang to their feet, asking with one voice what had befallen him. Captain Baster sank heavily on to a chair and instantly sprang up from it with a howl as he chanced on several tokens of the gorse-bush's clinging affection. "I've been stoned--stoned by some hulking scoundrels on the common!" he cried; and he displayed the considerable bump rising on his marble brow. Mrs.Dangerfield was full of concern and sympathy; Sir Maurice was cool, interested but cool; he did not blaze up into the passionate indignation of a bosom friend. "How many of them were there ?" said the Terror. "From the number of stones they threw I should think there were a dozen," said Captain Baster; and he panted still. The Terror looked puzzled. "I know--I know what it is!" cried Mrs.Dangerfield with an illuminating flash of womanly intuition.
"You've been humorous with some of the villagers!" "No, no! I haven't joked with a single one of them!" cried Captain Baster.
"But I'll teach the scoundrels a lesson! I'll put the police on them tomorrow morning.
I'll send for a detective from London.
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