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The man whom poor dead Billy Florence used to make the dominant, laughter-breeding memory-haunting figure in "The Almighty Dollar," is with us still. He infests Washington for many months of each year. He saves the country with persistency. I purpose to tell of him as I have known him.
I don't find anything like that in my face, when I look in the glass. And I don't feel detached and absorbed and heavenly. I'm happy, of course; but I can't help thinking of the dear, dear times Bertram and I have together, just we two, and I can't seem to imagine it at all with a third person around." "Billy! Third person, indeed!" "There! I knew 'twould shock you," mourned Billy. "It shocks me.
Unc' Billy grinned as he told how Reddy had sat under the hollow tree and tried to sing because he was so glad that Unc' Billy was dead, and all the little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows laughed until their sides ached when in a funny, cracked voice Unc' Billy sang the song for them.
She picked up the shovel and went off down the jungly path, herself the ugliest object in the Cove, where she had created so much beauty. Again the sympathetic soul of Billy Louise had betrayed her into performing an extremely disagreeable task.
Inclosed was a little slip on which Boris had written, "To Billy. Then I shall go alone. Boris." Countess Betty let the paper drop on her knee and looked into space vacantly, almost blankly, and only when the count now burst into an angry laugh did she start up in terrible affright.
He roused himself: "I guess I haven't got the guts, Sergeant; I must be a damned coward." "No, no, nothing of the kind, old fellow," I shouted, "but these boys are in my charge and I want you to help me play the game." He braced himself. "You're right, Sergeant, they haven't got our number and never will have." "Of course they won't," I answered reassuringly. Poor Billy!
Get back, Billy Fish, and take your men away; you've done what you could, and now cut for it. Carnehan, says he, 'shake hands with me and go along with Billy, Maybe they won't kill you. I'll go and meet 'em alone. It's me that did it! Me, the King! "'Go! says I. 'Go to Hell, Dan! I'm with you here. Billy Fish, you clear out, and we two will meet those folk.
"Oh, I don't care anything about it," said the smaller boy. "I won't say anything about it no matter how much Billy jokes, I am interested in the other matter. If there are tame calves here there must be more or less civilized people living on the island." "Well, we have made two or three very good discoveries on our island," observed Percival.
He noticed that as he seated himself at her side she flushed a little and half started to rise, with a nervous fluttering of her hands, and a murmured "I'll call Aunt Hannah." It was then that with sudden courage, he resolved to speak. "Billy, don't go," he said gently, with a touch of his hand on her arm. "There is something I want to say to you. I I have wanted to say it for some time."
"Well, it is certainly not safe to go far away from the vessel," declared Billy Manners, "and I think if I do I will be sure to take Jack along as a guide." "Not very complimentary to me," said Percival dryly. "Oh, you want your own way too much." "H'm! if I had had it we would have been lost yet, so I guess you are out there, William."
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