“If this had succeeded,” he said, “we should have been free by this time.”
“Did they wake up?” asked the girl with beating heart.
“They did wake up! That was Saba’s doing; he came running along and began to bark enough to awaken the dead.”
Then she was angry with Saba.
“Horrid Saba! For doing that I shall not say a word to him when he comes running up! I shall just tell him that he is bad!”
Although Stasch was not in a laughing mood, he smiled and asked:
“How can you not speak a word to him and at the same time tell him that he is bad?”
Nell elevated her eyebrows to show her annoyance, and with a shy voice replied:
“He will see that by my face.”
“Maybe. But he was not to blame, because he did not know what was going on; remember, too, that he came to our assistance.”
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