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Rh "We 've got to stay," he managed to repeat through his tears.

"I won't stay!"

"Yes you will; you've got to!"

Willie never gave up a point, and Roy, used to arguing with him by the half-hour, was not irritated by his obstinacy now. On the contrary, the prospect of an argument diverted his mind. He drew the sleeve of his night-shirt across his eyes and sat up in bed.

"Now you just listen to me! We can run away as easily as anything. We'll watch for the coach, and when we hear it in the distance, we 'll slip out of the side door and go down the road a bit—out of sight of the house—and wait

"They'd see us,' interrupted his brother,

"No they would n't! And when the coach comes quite close, we'll jump out of the bushes and call, 'Hi! stop!' and that funny man who gave us the