WHAT DAVE HAD TO TELL
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"Never mind if he was young or old, or clean-shaven or not," cried the story-teller. "This man"
"Was he an American or a foreigner?" demanded Gus Plum. "That is something we have simply got to know."
"And if he was knock-kneed," put in Sam. "I hate love stories about knock-kneed men. They aren't a bit romantic."
"Who said anything about a love story about a knock-kneed man?" burst out Shadow. "I said"
But what Shadow was going to say was drowned out in the sudden report of a shotgun,—a report so close at hand that it made nearly every student present stop in alarm.
