" "Oh, we can go up on the road to the entrance," said Kurt with animation.

" Lippo had been anxiously looking at Kurt for some time.

Bruno came rushing from one side and Kurt from the other, and Mäzli shot like an arrow right into their midst.

She told them that he was friendlier and nicer than any boy she had ever seen, and she quoted Bruno, Mea and Kurt as saying exactly the same thing.

No driver there was any surer than Kurt of his aim with the little stones he threw to spur a lagging horse.

The query surprised and thrilled Kurt out of his self-centered thought.

That was the one great word needed to reconcile Kurt to his father.

We're goin' to beat the I.W.W." That galvanized Kurt into action and he found himself dragging Jerry back to the barns.

For you it's Uncle Sam!" Whereupon, with a winning and fascinating manner that seemed to Kurt at once intimate and flattering, he began to talk fluently of the meaning of his visit, and of its cardinal importance.

By asking questions and making judicious replies he passed what he felt was the dark mark in that mixed company of I.W.W. men; and at length, one by one, they melted away to their warmer corners, leaving Kurt by the door.