If some one is playing us a trick, we may capture him." "I should like to lay my hands on the villain!" Bart hissed.

Though they stood there in utter silence for five minutes, the sounds did not come again.
"Of course, there is some rational explanation of this," Merriwell declared, as they again approached the window.

"There must be! It is the wildest nonsense to think otherwise." "Well, I wish that rational explanation would hurry this way.

I'm ready for it, old man! This thing is shaking my nerves all to pieces." "I didn't know you were troubled with nerves! Nerves are for hysterical girls and old women!" "Well, I've got 'em now! as the drunken man said when he began to see snakes.

I haven't any doubt about it." Hodge so seldom indulged in a joke, that Merry looked surprised.