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Finally the spectre trained his pale eyes upon his host, pulled in a long breath and remarked: "Jake, I'm yur dead father. I come back to have a talk with ye 'bout the way things is agoin' on. I want to know 'f you think it's right notter recognise yur dead parent?" May I be permitted to again inquire the precise nature of your present business?"
"I guess," said Bud, in his quiet, little old-man way, "I'm the one to hev the say. I'm agoin' to give ma two dollars a week and bank the rest." Meanwhile John was having an uncomfortable time as he walked home with Colette. He had started on the trail of the surplice the day before.
"It's a great deal better business for her to have a husband in the 'profesh' if she's agoin' to stick to it," said his informant, Mrs. McClosky, "and she's nothing if she ain't business and profesh, Mr. Brant. I never see a girl that was born for the stage yes, you might say jess cut out o' the boards of the stage as that girl Susy is!
He painted the surplus onto a man playin' on a orgin." She hesitated a moment, and then continued: "I'm agoin' to work reg'lur fer him instead of to the theayter. I'm agoin' to git his breakfast and clean his rooms. He'll pay me the same as I got. He's a sort of eddicatin' me too." "Why, how is that, Amarilly?" asked John in perplexity. "He larnt me not to say 'et' and 'kin."
The idea of Mike's connecting the life of a pig with that stoop was more than he could bear. "Why, Mike," said he, in an injured tone, "that stoop's the place where she's agoin' to set." "Oh! I didn't know, Jim, ye was agoin' to kape hins. Now, ef you're agoin' to kape hins, ye kin do as ye plase, Jim, in coorse; but ye musn't forgit the pig, Jim.
While the audience is waiting for the next singer, there is a noise heard in the wings, and then a loud voice cries, "I tell yer I will go on. It's no use of you a-stoppin' of me, I'm agoin' to tell 'em all about it, I am," and then with a great clatter a private soldier comes bungling on the stage, tunic open, hair all over the place, and cap at the back of his head.
"You wait," said he; "mebbe I know what I'm about, more'n you think I do." Hannah scowled with sharp interrogation at her husband's shrewdly leering face. "What be you agoin' to do?" she demanded. But she got no more out of him.
We all collected around the blazing logs to listen to the trapper's story. "Well, then," began Redwood, "the thing I'm agoin' to tell you about, happened to me when I war a younker, long afore I ever thought I was a coming out hyar upon the parairas. I wan't quite growed at the time, though I was a good chunk for my age.
Every feller that believes a fish swallered Jonah, hold up his right hand!" It is sad to have to admit that only two or three hands were raised. "Well, I'll be durned," the evangelist continued, "you air tough cases. That's what's the matter with you; you are shy on faith. You fellers has got to be saved, an' to be saved you got to believe, an' believe hard, an' I'm agoin' to make you.
"That's all right, Dike," he said. "You're going back. So'm I. I've got another twenty years of work in me. We're going back to the farm." Bella turned on him, a wildcat. "We ain't! Not me! We ain't! I'm not agoin' back to the farm." But Ben Westerveld was master again in his own house. "You're goin' back, Bella," he said, quietly. "An' things are goin' to be different.
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