I must stay with him for the present, but we will see each other soon.

Go now, and trust me.' "'I disown you, you ungrateful girl,' foams her uncle.

'Scudder, I order you to put that--that creature off this island.' "'Yes, sir,' says Nate, polite; 'in about two shakes of a heifer's tail.' "He started for Augustus, and Gus started for the door.

I guess Olivia might have interfered, but just then the professor keels over in a kind of faint and she had to tend to him.

Gus darts out of the door with Nate after him.