The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-11-06
CHAPTER XIV.
BREAKING JAIL.

Dolly GOOk GH6 Gdu ueWS yulelAy p
enough She heard what Guthrie had
to tell her about the hopelessness of
trying to escape via the roof Then she
remarked phiiosophically that it could
not be helped They must just discover
some other way out.
s.There's no earthly use in our staying
here any longer, you know, . she added.
"We've discussed Nicholas the First
and his doings with the most compre-
hensive fullness. and as he hasn't LETT
me any legacy worth carrying away
admit that my interest in the sinful old
filibuster has quite evaporated. Besides,
how long is it since you had your last
meal, Alan?'
breakfast, returned the under
graduate promptly. about eight
hours isn't it?''
"Quite. Well, that's longer than L m
accustomed to. Therefore I'm develop
ing most unladylike appetite There
fore I mean to return to the Eureka to
satisfy that same appetite. Therefore,
to put the situation tersely, ] mean to
leave Nick's snuggery Immediately.
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perhaps the others will contrive to
find us, suggested the undergraduate
but with little enthusiasm. "I'm sure
Captain Colepepper and DR.. Tring will
both do their best as soon as they know
we're missing, and they'll root up half
the island sooner than not find us. =
Dolly sat on the edge of the table and
swung shoe.
<tN1.,, A1o,, cbo cold. u1,iot1v
ttyou know as well as do that it's nom |
sense to expect either dad or DR.. firing
to find us down here. They might per-
haps have just bare chance Of doing
go if they gave up about a month to the
lob and We're lucky. But don't think
we can wait quite all that time with
out considerable inconvenience No;
if we don't find some way out of the
BOBBY trap by ourselves we shall be
starved to death. That was the fate,
YOU remember. which we agreed would
probably overtake the members of the
PRIV family who poked their noses in
here.
ooh, Dolly, . broke out the under
graduate with sudden burst of self re-
proach, what an idiot was to let you
get into this scrape at alll''
The girl laughed with a gayety
which was quite genuine. Gas if, (" she
exclaimed with fine scorn, 'tas if you
had anything to do with it'll like that.
Do you really mean to imply, Mr..
Guthrie that you imagine you could
have stopped me if l wanted to come
Don't you know that red haired people
are always obstinate?'
sYour hairs auburn, Dollyl" said
the young man.
sThat's a mere bubble. Besides, au
burn S worse ifanything, for obstinacy
But never mind my hair now We're
wasting time. I'm just horribly hungry
already, and as I don't want to ge
much hungrier, I'm going to leave thi
ancestral cabin with the smallest posi-
BILE delay.
Guthrie looked at the girl admiring
". Her courage was magnificent, AM
''s it was moreover, of that quality which
in straits OF this kind. has way Q
working impossibilities- The youn
man. seeing it, felt the infection an
was ashamed of his own perfectly nat
ural misgivings.
I'm with you in that, Dolly" /
cried heartily .'Tell me what to do. an
I'll do it. :
..Then go and inspect that automat
letter box thing which dropped us
here, and see if the return journey
the same route ism possible. I'll elm
up through the skylight, meanwhil
and admire the prospect up there. !"
Guthrie helped her up through Il
little manhole. and, then dropping bat
on to the floor Of the dusty den, s
about the piece of exploration whis
she had commanded. He opened the 10
door which bore the insulting insert
tion, eye Bobo, Hys Trappe, and car
fully inspected, for the second time, t.
wooden slide and it's surroundings.
His survey was no cursory one
examined every nook and Granny,
pulled up the heap of moldering rush
which lay at the foot of the slopil
boards, in the hope of finding vag
something hidden beneath it. He tri
to pull away one Of the planks Of t
ehoot, thinking that, perhaps he mig
be able to swarm PIP the edge of
neighbor But without tools he fou
that he could not even start the boart
and, if he had been able to do So,
would still Lave been useless, for abe
the upper edge Of the planking wal
sheer drop of at least ten feet benea
that fatal swinging door, and the re
which guarded it .sloped outward.
Nicholas the First's ingenuity b
been little short of fiendish when
schemed that safeguard to his snuggel
Having finished his survey unsucce
fully. Guthrie returned to the liz
room, threw himself down upon the
of the sea chest. and, modify drummi
his foot against its side, waited
Dolly to reappear.
His thoughts were not pleasant x
Jelly had once told him what starV
ton was like. for the one armed m
had tried it, some ten years ago, in
open boat. 1t was the solitary subj.
npon which he could be anything Il
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