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Professor Beeton Trachs, the globe-trotting lecturer, who arrived via the "M. and M." for an eight o'clock appearance, at 9.54, gave the "Clarion" an interview proper to the occasion of having to abjure a $200 guaranty, wherein the mildest and most judicial opinion expressed by Professor Trachs was that crawling through a tropical jungle on all fours was speed, and being hurtled down a mountain on the bosom of a landslide, comfort, compared to travel on the "Mid and Mud."
But Beeton, right-fielder, had been wide-awake. As Willings turned he ran in to back up Satterlee, found the ball on a low bounce and, on the run, sent it to the plate so swiftly that Fearing was able to catch Carpenter a yard away from it. The Durham third baseman picked himself up, muttering his opinion of the proceedings and looking very cross.
Beeton returned to cook muffins and make scathing remarks about models, hussies, trollops, and the like, to her husband. 'There's nothing to be got of interfering with him, Liza, he said. 'Alf, you go along into the street to play. When he isn't crossed he's as kindly as kind, but when he's crossed he's the devil and all.
Beeton would take Dick out with him when he went marketing in the morning to haggle with tradesmen over fish, lamp-wicks, mustard, tapioca, and so forth, while Dick rested his weight first on one foot and then on the other and played aimlessly with the tins and string-ball on the counter. Then they would perhaps meet one of Mr.
Fu-Manchu were merely a part. Hale blundered on to this stupendous business; and from what I have gathered from Beeton and what I have seen for myself, it is evident that in yonder coffer" he pointed to the brass chest standing hard by "Hale got hold of something indispensable to the success of this vast Yellow conspiracy.
'Then you won't ? 'I'm afraid not, dear. Think of fifty pounds for pretty things all to yourself. 'You said you couldn't do anything without me. 'That was true a little while ago. I'm better now, thank you. Get me my hat. 'S'pose I don't? 'Beeton will, and you'll lose fifty pounds. That's all. Get it. Bessie cursed under her breath.
'He's best left to hisself gentlemen always are when they're downhearted, said Mr. Beeton. Alf's rigorously limited powers of comprehending Torpenhow's special correspondence had waked the devil of unrest in Dick.
As I turned to place the tumbler upon a small table the resumed the wordless babbling, and now, with his index finger, pointed to his mouth. "He has lost the power of speech!" whispered Smith. "He was stricken dumb, gentlemen, ten minutes ago," said Beeton in a trembling voice. "He dropped off to sleep out there on the floor, and I brought him in here and laid him on the bed.
Perhaps he has found out that he has a soul, or an artistic temperament, or something equally valuable. That comes of leaving him alone for a month. Perhaps he has been going out of evenings. I must look to this. He rang for the bald-headed old housekeeper, whom nothing could astonish or annoy. 'Beeton, did Mr. Heldar dine out at all while I was out of town?
'Maybe but you won't get it yet. Sit down and let's see what I can do for you. I'm certain sure Mr. Beeton cheats you, now that you can't go through the housekeeping books every month. Isn't that true? 'You'd better come and housekeep for me then, Bessie. 'Couldn't do it in these chambers you know that as well as I do.
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