"THEY'VE GOT THE BOY" "I don't believe it.

Your rescuer was drawing the long bow," spoke up Anne Nesbit.
"Yes, I can't imagine Hippy with a price on his head," nodded Miss Briggs.
"When I'm dead you folks will be sorry that you didn't take me seriously," rebuked Lieutenant Wingate.

"Do we do as my friend suggested, and hike for the Thompson farm, or must I be sacrificed on the altar of unbelief ?" "Grace must answer that question.

She is our captain," answered Elfreda.
Grace Harlowe regarded Hippy with searching eyes.
"You are not fooling us, Hippy ?" she demanded.
"Could I be so base as to deceive my dearest friends ?" answered Lieutenant Wingate in an aggrieved tone.

"How can you doubt me ?" "Girls, if there be no objection, we will start at daybreak.