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I folded the check, put it in my pocketbook, and, hastily scribbling a receipt in pencil at the bottom of Colton's note, replaced the latter in the envelope and handed it to Johnson, who departed. Entering the dining-room I found Dorinda and Lute at the window, peering after the butler. "By time!" exclaimed Lute, "if I didn't know I should say he was a bigger big-bug than old Colton himself.
I noticed the window was up; so he had clumb in by the shed. He kept a-looking me all over. By and by he says: "Starchy clothes very. You think you're a good deal of a big-bug, DON'T you?" "Maybe I am, maybe I ain't," I says. "Don't you give me none o' your lip," says he. "You've put on considerable many frills since I been away. I'll take you down a peg before I get done with you.
I'll see that you get out of this scrape all right, but you must be careful to keep up appearances of being under guard. I'm a big-bug in this Filipino shack, but I wouldn't dare to let you out openly. So you jist kind of lay around and look despondent, and depend on me to make things as easy for you as I can. You kin come down-stairs now, if you like, and I'll present you to my friends.
"Does she, Pele Pele say, does she?" "Yes, she does," said Peletiah, moving off slowly. "Well, then, I'll say it. Came back and sit down; I'll say it. Saw, saw, saw. There, now" as Peletiah, very much delighted, settled back into his place. "Well, you know this was a great big-bug who was buried, and " "A big bug!" exclaimed Peletiah, terribly disappointed.
But" with an inspiration "why don't he go to one of these big-bug boomsters he knows that he got letters of introduction to and get him to fix him up?" "Oh, Lord!" exclaimed Steelman, hopelessly. "Listen to him! Can't you see that they're the last men he wants to let into his game? Why, he wants to use THEM! They're the mugs as far as he is concerned!"
"I don't want to hear of any bugs; tell about a funeral," he commanded loudly. "I am tellin' you; keep still an' you'll hear it. Well, he was a gre at big-bug, an' " "Who was?" cried Ezekiel, dreadfully puzzled. "This man who was to be buried this one I'm tellin' you of. Do keep still, an' you'll hear if you don't stop me every minute."
Therefore Douglass's affair was regarded enviously by the other range men, and it must be confessed, rather indulgently by the range women, who found not a great deal of fault with his conquest of this supercilious "big-bug" who had weaned the hearts of their men away from proper altars of devotion. Old Abbie, alone, was bitterly vituperative of both the man and his condoning admirers.
"Yes, but he wants Seabrooke to go because he says he has but little pleasure; so he told him he would decline and take the evening study, so that he might go to the dinner. Here he comes now. Hallo! Seabrooke, what a big-bug you're getting to be! Going out to dine with the dons and so forth." Seabrooke passed on with a cold, indifferent smile just moving the corners of his mouth.
They were good fellows the Galletlys, but they knew their men. I happened to know that Bill Galletly wouldn't let the man he built the buggy for take it out of the shop without cash down, though he was a big-bug round there. But that didn't make it easier for me. Just then Robert Galletly came into the shop. He was rather quieter than his brother, but the two were very much alike.
If a man were to go about as the original Designer of his person no doubt intended, a razor would never have touched his face. But men, like other animals, are subject to crotchets, and are wont to imitate superiors, so when some big-bug like Peter the Great introduced the shears and razor, men appeared soon after with cropped heads and clean chops.
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