I told him it was some kind of machinery.

He saw the canvas and said he guessed pa was going to put up a windmill!" "Thanks for keeping it dark!" cried Dick.

"We want to surprise everybody at Brill." "You'll have to be careful of what you do then," went on the girl.

"Some of the young men have been around, and I--well, I don't like it." "Who was around ?" asked Tom.
"Mr.Flockley, for one," and Minnie bit her lip, for she had not forgotten how that dudish collegian had once insulted her,--the time the Rover boys had come to her rescue, as related in detail in "The Rover Boys at College." "Did he come to the house ?" asked Sam.
"Oh, no, he merely walked through the orchard.

But I guess he saw some of the packages." "He didn't speak to you, did he ?" asked Dick, bluntly.
"I didn't give him the chance.