"Gone for a few pipes, the swine!" he muttered, then looked up and raised his voice. "Come on down, girls. Mutiny's postponed until tonight. False alarm and nobody killed yet."
III
"What part are you from?" asked Jim Barnes.
"Illinois," said Ellen Maggs. "From Elgin, where they make watches. Were you ever there?"
"No closer than the outside of a watch," responded Barnes. "But now I'm going there some day."
"Why?"
"To see where you came from."
Ellen Maggs laughed a little and actually forgot to blush.
"Do it again," said Barnes.