Part 64 (2/2)
”Why?” cried Mark, wonderingly, as he caught the hands extended to him by his friend
”Because then I could hug you But I can't: it would be so Frenchy”
”Fists'll do,” said Mark, gripping Bob's fingers with all his ht
”Yes, and we're to stick to each other always”
”Always”
”Through thick and thin”
”Through thick and thin”
”Chums to the end”
”To the very end, Bob”
”Yah!” roared the latter, angrily, as he picked up a bread tray to throw at a head he had seen through his di theoing on? Why, I thought it was one of the ly You can't tell tales of how stupid and choky I've been”
The chimpanzee came forward out of the semi-darkness, and squatted down to have its ears pulled; while, as soon as he grew ain, Mark sat down to pen a long, long letter to that best of places--his far-off home