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'Why, Allbright, of course; didn't I tell you the baby was dead. Been dead three years how could it cry? 'Well, never mind how it could cry how could it KEEP all that time? says Davy. 'You answer me that. 'I don't know how it done it, says Ed. 'It done it though that's all I know about it. 'Say what did they do with the bar'l? says the Child of Calamity.
I doubt if it is in working order by to-morrow." As he spoke, Carroll was taking out his pocket-book, which he opened, disclosing neatly folded bank-notes. "By-the-way, Mr. Allbright," he said, "I find I can settle my arrears with you to-night, after all. I happened to think of a party from whom I might procure a certain sum which was due me, and I did so." Allbright's face brightened.
"Well, I am very glad to hear of your good-fortune. Good-day, Mr. Allbright." Carroll had not advanced three paces from Allbright before his feet glissaded on the thin glare of the pavement, he tried to recover himself, and came down heavily, striking his head; then he knew no more for some time. Charlotte had expected her father home at a little after six o'clock that night.
It was Allbright who had rescued Carroll from the station-house; for when he did not rise, the usual crowd, who directly attribute all failures to recover one's self from a manifestly inappropriate recumbent position, had collected, and several policemen were on the scene. "I know this gentleman," Allbright said, in his rather humble, still half-respectful, voice, which carried conviction.
"Yes," he says, a-leaning over it, "yes, it is my own lamented darling, my poor lost Charles William Allbright deceased," says he, for he could curl his tongue around the bulliest words in the language when he was a mind to, and lay them before you without a jint started, anywheres.
"Say," said Harrison Day, "it's all right, ain't it?" "What's all right?" demanded Allbright, a trifle shortly, drawing away. He had never liked Harrison Day. "Oh, nothin', only it's ten days since he went, and I thought I'd look round to see how things were lookin'. You s'pose he's comin' back all right?" "I haven't any reason to think anything else."
"I don't know; I reckon it ain't a bar'l, but I thought it might be," says he. "Yes," I says, "so it might be, and it might be anything else, too; a body can't tell nothing about it, such a distance as that," I says. 'We hadn't nothing else to do, so we kept on watching it. By and by I says "Why looky-here, Dick Allbright, that thing's a-gaining on us, I believe." 'He never said nothing.
"If we hadn't got so attached to the place we would move," said Allbright, who was leaving his patient momentarily, to change his shoes for slippers. "I know it," said the sister, "but I can't help feeling attached to the place, we have lived here so long; and there is that beautiful cherry-tree out in the yard, and everything." "That is so," said Allbright. "I am glad Mr.
He was quite unconscious, and it was an undertaking of considerable difficulty to carry him up the stairs, since the Allbrights lived in the second story. The clerk in the department store, and his mother, who lived on the first floor, came to their door in undress and offered their hospitality, but Mr. Allbright declined their aid. "No," he said. "I know him. It is Mr. Carroll.
"Well, I haven't, but I wasn't goin' to let on to that chap. And he may live jest where I said he did, for all I know. Say!" "What?" "You s'pose it is all right?" Allbright hesitated. His eyes fell on three gold balls suspended in the air over a door a little way down a cross street. "Yes," he said. "I believe that Captain Arthur Carroll will pay every man he owes every dollar he owes."
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