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His dignity was hurt sorely. He, who understood women so well, to be treated like this. Then he tried to console himself with the opinion that after all Birdie was not exactly a woman, only a "pot-rustler." But Bill was pushing the business forward. He wanted to get the matter in hand settled.
He sighed heavily and looked over the girl's head into the darkness. "They say that telegraph fellow back there at the station is up to something," he ventured. "It's all the talk. Birdie Spinks says he is an inventor; says George Pike told him; says he is working all the time on new inventions to do things by machinery; that his passing off as a telegraph operator is only a bluff.
You didn't quote those well-known lines: What does little birdie say In its nest at peep of day? Mumsy dear, did you?" "No, Irene; I was occupied with other things with sad, very sad memories. This is the anniversary of your dear, your precious father's death." Irene had the grace to be silent for a moment.
"'Aren't you afraid of starving, now the ground is covered and the trees are bare? "'Chick-a-dee-dee, ma'am, chick-a-dee-dee!" answered the bird in the same cheerful tone. And it sounded as if he said, 'I shall be cared for. I'm not afraid. "'What will you eat? There's nothing here or for miles round. I really think you'll starve, birdie, said I.
The lady missed her pet sorely; and next summer when the low twittering of the swallows was heard again, as they came back to their old home to build once more, she watched them at their work with many a thought of her lost birdie. This is why I said it was a sad story; but we must not forget that the lady really saved the life of the poor bird, when it had fallen from the nest.
The third night Kate consented to watch, only if she should marry the sick prince. All went on as on the first two nights. This time the fairy baby was playing with a birdie; Kate heard one of the fairies say: "Three bites of that birdie would make the sick prince as well as ever he was." Kate rolled all the nuts she had to the fairy baby till the birdie was dropped, and Kate put it in her apron.
He stooped down, picked up the revolver from the floor, slipped it into his pocket, bent over Slimmy Jack for an instant to assure himself that the man was dead then stepping back to the safe, he laid his hand on the ex-convict's shoulder. "Birdie," he said quietly, "could you open this safe if you wanted to?"
She rose to her feet, and, going up to Jasmine, gave her a hasty kiss. "We'll remember our good old resolution," she said brightly, "not to grumble, not to fret, not to cry. Ah! here is our dear little birdie waking from her sleep.
When the play was over, Nance, struggling into Birdie's complicated finery in the dressing-room below, wondered how she could ever manage to exist until the next performance. Her one consolation was the immediate prospect of seeing Mac Clarke and the mysterious Monte to whom Birdie had said she must be nice.
This was her way of enforcing admiration; and being now satisfied with her performance, she would give a goodly number of shakes to her sparkling coat, then, happy and refreshed, crawl into her airy bed in the bull's-eye, and go to sleep. Mr Hayes does not tell us what became of Birdie. I am afraid that her fate was a sad one.
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