Instead, they looked at one another as much as
to say, "Well, time to go, isn't it?"
Then Fort stared up at the mysterious roof. There was another
clearing there, a little to one side; which accounted for Billie's
overlooking it at first. Fort led the way over opposite.
"Shall we try it?" he dared Mona.
"You first," she replied, indifferently.
Whereupon the athlete, without another word, pulled his cap down
tight, made sure his pockets were buttoned, cleared the shrubbery
away from his feet and--leaped! Leaped straight into the air, and as
he went up, he flipped his body as only an acrobat can, so that he
turned a mid air somersault.
But he did not come back to where he jumped from. Instead, his jump
took him five yards, which separated the ground from the roof; and
when he landed HIS FEET WERE RESTING ON THE ROOF, AND HIS HEAD WAS
POINTING DOWNWARD, TOWARD MONA.
"It's easy," he remarked, craning his neck so that he could look at
the girl. "Come on; I'll catch you!"
And then Billie's senses whirled as the surgeon duplicated the feat.
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