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The ruffians about the fire seemed to be customers in a new "T Room" as Mother fussed over them and kept their plates filled. Gradually the hoboes thawed out and told the Applebys that they had permission from the owner of the land to occupy this winter refuge, but that they liberally "swiped" their supplies from the whole countryside.
"We must build a birch bark ship for the Hips family," said Polly, changing the subject. "Your Applebys can live on my island and if they don't want to associate with the Roseberries they can have a cave to themselves." "Roseberry is such a nice pleasant name for wicked people," remarked Mary. "Why don't you call them something else?" "Nobody ever does call them that," returned Polly readily.
To the Tubbses, though they were cynical with a hoary wisdom in regard to New-Yorkers and summerites and boarders in general, the annual coming of the Applebys was welcome as cider and buttered toast yes, they even gave Father and Mother the best chamber, with the four-poster bed and the mirror bordered with Florida shells, at a much reduced rate.
But she went down with him, was impressed by the shininess and newness of things and the Hungarian was given a good share of the Applebys' life-savings, agitatedly taken out of the savings-bank in specie. They had purchased freedom. The house at Grimsby Head was eager for them.
To this meek race, doing the city's work and forgotten by the city they have built, belonged the Applebys. They lived in a brown and dusky flat, with a tortoise-shell tabby, and a canary, and a china hen which held their breakfast boiled eggs.
In the inner room Billie, who had rejected the mental refreshment offered by Widgery and was engaged on making a tour of the office, looking at the portraits of whiskered men whom she took correctly to be the Thorpes, Prescotts, Winslows, and Applebys mentioned on the contents-bill outside, was surprised to hear the door open at her back. She had not expected Sam to return so instantaneously.
To the city-bred Applebys there would have been cheer and excitement in this mild activity, after their farm-house weeks; indeed Father suggested, "We ought to stay and see the movies. Look! Royal X. Snivvles in 'The Lure of the Crimson Cobra' six reels that sounds snappy." But his exuberance died in a sigh.
Yes, the Applebys could not understand every detail of what the well-bred Carters had said. "Interior decoration" that didn't mean anything to them. All that they understood was that they were fools and failures, in the beginning of their old age; that they belonged to the quite ludicrously inefficient. Father realized, presently, that the Carters were waiting for their bill.
The idea of these old people making themselves a new life caught many imaginations. The Sunday story was reprinted and reprinted till the source of it was entirely forgotten. The names of the Applebys became stock references in many newspaper offices Father even had a new joke appended to his name, as though he were an actor or an author or Chauncey Depew.
When she had warmed Mother's feet and given them her wistful good wishes, the woman let them go, and the Smiths recently Applebys, went comfortably and plumply two more miles on their way to Japan.
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