. St. Nicholas [serial]. e s avery common one on the island that s a gooddeal like it —Trimmingham—but that does nthelp much. It probably is nt the same, thoughthe English do have the funniest way of shorten-ing their names and pronouncing them in queerways ! Wrong trail ! exclaimed Alexander, , suddenly turning to Margaret, he added: Here, kiddie!Hand me that jour-nal-thing you vedoped out. I wantto give it the once-over ! He studiedit thoughtfully forseveral minutes, tug-ging viciously thewhile at a long lockof red hair that al-ways hung over hiseyes. The rest allkept very quiet,
. St. Nicholas [serial]. e s avery common one on the island that s a gooddeal like it —Trimmingham—but that does nthelp much. It probably is nt the same, thoughthe English do have the funniest way of shorten-ing their names and pronouncing them in queerways ! Wrong trail ! exclaimed Alexander, , suddenly turning to Margaret, he added: Here, kiddie!Hand me that jour-nal-thing you vedoped out. I wantto give it the once-over ! He studiedit thoughtfully forseveral minutes, tug-ging viciously thewhile at a long lockof red hair that al-ways hung over hiseyes. The rest allkept very quiet,watching him ex-pectantly. Presentlyhe issued his ulti- how you break into the place. If you put mewise to that, yours truly will do the rest! In the course of the next few days, Alexanderbecame a duly enrolled member of the nearestpublic library, and his family was edified to be-hold him deeply immersed in the most unusualoccupation of literary and historical research. Ashe ordinarily touched no volume of any nature. matum: There s oneother piece of busi-ness that you allseem to have prettywell given the coldshoulder —this songand dance aboutsome plot in Ber-muda that the Alison kid says she wasmixed up in. Have you ever thought ofdoping that out ? No, we have nt, admitted did think once of hunting it up, but thewhole thing was so awfully vague that theredid nt seem to be any use. What couldyou hunt up, anyway? Youd have to readup a lot of Bermuda history, and even thenyou probably would nt strike a thing thathad any bearing on it! You never can tell! remarked the boy,wisely. Me for this job, from now on !Where s that library joint you get all yourbooks from, Corinne? Little Alexander sgoing to join the army of high-brows ! You can take my card and use it, Alex-ander, or I 11 get you the books myself,Corinne kindly offered. Thanks awfully, but nothing doing! he re-turned. This kid gets right on the job himselfwhen he strikes the trail. All I want to know is
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