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Meanwhile Von Baumser, at the other end, was floundering about with a broad smile upon his face and an elderly lady tucked under his right arm, while he held her disengaged hand straight out at right angles, as if she had been a banjo.
"Then it's all up with the concert. We have forgotten Marian's music; and there is nothing for Nelly I beg pardon, I mean Miss McQuinch to play from. She is above playing by ear." "I cannot play by ear," said the restless young lady, angrily. "If you will sing 'Coal black Rose' instead, Marian, I can accompany you on the banjo, and back you up in the chorus.
One evening I heard the unmistakable sound of a banjo, and managed to twist myself round far enough to see that this same doctor was playing an accompaniment to Mary's very fair imitation of a skirt dance out in the passage. The sight revived me so much that I laughed aloud, and Mary came hastily forward, blushing, with finger on her lip.
Some wore women's hats, some crinoline hoop-skirts over their shoulders; others brandished boots and shirts, and one glistening brave swung a banjo at arm's-length over his flying horse's head. Another party of the despoilers discovered a shipment of silks and satins.
"Chad." the "little shepherd" did not know who he was nor whence he came he had just wandered from door to door since early childhood, seeking shelter with kindly mountaineers who gladly fathered and mothered this waif about whom there was such a mystery a charming waif, by the way, who could play the banjo better that anyone else in the mountains.
The inspiration arrived during that hour when the denizens of the little colony sat ring-wise about the beach fire. The neighbor with the banjo had done his worst, and desisted; Jennie had piped through her repertoire and was now graciously accepting the support of Amiel's arm.
I don't think I am fond of the banjo as a musical instrument, but I've simply got to find Dorothy. If you don't know where she is will you ask Miss Mason? Tell her it is important or I would not have appeared. Oh, yes, I know the Boy Scouts are more welcome visitors at present than they were, still I really have too much else to do ordinarily!"
I am here to help not to make things worse." He shrugged his shoulders and said no more. In a few minutes Dick's cheery banjo thrummed into silence and he turned round. "Are you ready?" he said to Juliet. She rose and came forward, tall and graceful, bearing the unmistakable stamp of high-breeding in every delicate movement.
Then we tried a whistling duet with banjo accompaniment, pretty well murdering the Tinker's Song from Robin Hood until Whinstane Sandy, who was taking his Sabbath bath in the bunk-house, loudly opened the window and stared out with a dourly reproving countenance, which said as plain as words: "This is nae the day for whustlin', folks!"
It is conceivable that her aunts would not have approved of a girl who never set foot on the ground if a horse were within hail; who rode to dances with a shawl thrown over her skirt; who wore her hair cropped and curling all over her head; who answered indifferently to the name of William or Bill; whose speech was heavy with the flowers of the vernacular; who could act in amateur theatricals, play on the banjo, rule eight servants and two horses, their accounts and their diseases, and look men slowly and deliberately between the eyes yea, after they had proposed to her and been rejected.
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