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They ran and locked theh the --all except Miss Eyester, who declared dramatically that she had no further interest in life anyhow and wished to die by his hand, knowing herself responsible for what had happened

Wallie, breathless fro, arrived with the axe, which he handed to Mr Hicks, who called warningly as he swung it: "Stand back, Pinkey!--I'm comin'!"

The door crashed and splintered, and when it opened, Mr Hicks fell in with it

He fell out again al eyes of a wild e white substance

"He's frothin'!" Mr Hicks yelled shrilly "He's got hydrophoby! Look out for hiled Pinkey

"Who bit you, feller?" the cook asked, soothingly

"G-ggg-gg-ough!" was the agonized answer

"We'll have to throw and hog-tie him" Mr Hicks looked around to see if there was a rope handy

"Don't let him snap at you," called Mr Stott frooners"

The cook who, as Pinkey advanced shaking his head and htened: "That ain't froth--it's plaster o' Paris--I bet you! Wait till I get a stick and poke it!"

Pinkey nodded

"That's it!" Mr Hicks cried, delightedly: "He's takin' a cast of his gooms--I told him about it"

The look he received froet it out?" Wallie asked in perplexity

"It's way bigger than his ested huht push it down and make him s it"

"Maybe you could knock a little off at a ti "It's hard as a rock," feeling of it "You'll have to crack it"

"It's like taking a hook out of a cat-fish," said the cook, facetiously "Say, can you open your ns that his mouth was stretched to the liht say," observed Mr Budlong "If you go toyou'll have the top of his head off"

"If I could just get my fist up in the roof somehow and then pry down on it" The size of Mr Hicks' fist, however, estion impractical

"I believe I can pick it off little by little with a hairpin or a pair of scissors or so" Miss Eyester spoke both confidently and syratitude and suffering

"Don't laugh at hi uproariously "Just leave us alone and I'll e it somehow"