dots and dashes of light--the firefly
winking passionately, as if somebody, some
thief, were running with it.

And they ran, too, its rightful owners,
in full cry, calling frantically upon the
robber, whether thief, or tempest, to stop.

And the girls kept bravely up with
the men. Or one of them did! For all
the spice of her chowchow name was
afire in Pemrose Lorry now; and she
would have tackled the thief, single-handed,
to gt back her father's record.

Into the core of darkness--in among the
ebony spruce-boughs--the jetty, frowning
trunks, the snarling, brambly underbrush,
dashed the chase, the hue and cry, not
daring to turn on a flashlight and in its
glare lose the one little piloting blink
ahead, which now seemed to have considerable
odds on them, as it fled helter-skelter
through the woods.

"My word! this--this beats anything
I ever dr-reamed of," gurgled the college
boy. "The Thing, whatever it is, has
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