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Also Pinkey'sand the ferocity of his expression took on special significance in the light of his strange absence Instinctively Wallie looked at Miss Eyester That young lady atching hiravity Unexpectedly she burst into tears so explosively that Mrs Budlong moved back the bread plate even as she tried to co has happened! I feel it! When Aunt Sallie choked on a fish-bone at Asbury Park I knew it before we got the wire I'm sort of clairvoyant! Please excuseIt see when Pinkey, the sunshine of the ranch, as they suddenly realized,cold in death in the bunk-house, so they followed soleered to pick herself out another spare-rib, which she took with her in her fingers

They proceeded in a body to the bunk-house, where Wallie applied his eye to the keyhole and found it had been stuffed with so This confirmed his worst suspicions Nobody could doubt now but that so sinister had happened

Mr Penrose, who had been straining his eyes at the , peering through a tiny space between the towel and thefra This, of course, was preposterous, for if alive Pinkey would have made a sound in response to their clamour, so nobody paid any attention to his assertion

"We'll have to burst the door in," said Mr Stott in his masterful manner, but Wallie already had run for the axe for that purpose

Mrs Appel, alternately gnawing her bone and crying softly, begged them not to let her see hiainst the door-ja condition

"Maybe I can bust it with ainst the door

I, a co, was heard, a sound as if a shoulder braced on the inside was resisting

There was a second's astonished silence and then a chorus of voices demanded: "Let us in! Pinkey! What is thesound that was blood-curdling

"He's cut his wind-pipe and all he can do is gaggle!" cried Mr Hicks, excitedly, and made a frenzied attack on the door that strained the lock to the uted that Pinkey's head must be nearly severed from his body--which made the resistance he displayed all the more reranted--and the ladies arned to places of safety lest he coht and left with a razor