"Yes, aunt," he screamed back. "Shall I see you to your car?"
He left them for a few minutes and returned, mopping his brow, in time to rescue three boys from an early death from drowning in the pond. William and a few other daring spirits were balancing themselves at a dizzy height on the top of the wall. The young man was beginning to look pale, when once more the butler appeared.
WILLIAM YELLED THE WORDS IN HIS STRIDENT YOUNG
VOICE.
"There's a gentleman at the front door, sir," he said respectfully, "who seems in a great state, sir, and he says that he's lost some slum children——"
The young man's face brightened.
"Ah," he said, "tell him I've found some, and ask him to come and see whether they happen to be his. They've done me a very good turn, but I shouldn't mind being relieved of them now."
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"'E was one of the swanks an' no mistake," said Eglantine to William. "Oi'd no patience wiv 'im an' 'is wye of talkin'. Oi can plye the toff as well as anyone when oi loikes—oi did wiv 'im, din't oi? But oi despises 'em."
William was looking anxiously down the road where the tall man was taking them.