Part 28 (2/2)
”Did he send you over here for me?”
”Of course he did,” said Mumps.
”I do not believe it. This is some trick!” burst out the girl.
”I want you to put me on sh.o.r.e again.”
”You can't go ash.o.r.e now,” answered Baxter.
”Ease her off, Goss.”
”Right you are,” answered Bill Goss. ”What's the course now?”
”Straight down the lake.”
”All right.”
”You are not going to take me down the lake!” cried Dora in increased alarm.
”Yes, we are.”
”I--I won't go!”
”I don't see how you are to help yourself,” responded Baxter roughly.
”Dan Baxter, you are a brute!”
”If you can't say anything better than that, you had better say nothing!” muttered Baxter.
”I will say what I please. You have no right to carry me off in this fas.h.i.+on!”
”Well, I took the right.”
”You shall be locked up for it.”
”You'll have to place me in the law's hands first.”
”I don't believe d.i.c.k Rover sent that letter at all!”
”You can believe what you please.”
”You forged his name to it.”
”Let us talk about something else.”
”You are as bad as your father, and that is saying a good deal,”
went on the poor girl bitterly.
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