"I'll leave your nose free." "Let me up, you little rascal!" I cried.

"Did you do this ?" At that he deliberately laid the handkerchief over my mouth and fastened it around my head.

He was careful to leave my nose all right, but I was so mad that I could scarcely breathe.

I knew by the way he acted that he had tied me, and I had never had such a trick played on me before.

But it was no use to be mad.