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Then he gets sick only a bit of fever, but it laid him out bad for a time: and he couldn't shave, and he couldn't bath, and that hurt him wuss'n the fever. We was here, then; jist in this same camp. And when he got well enough to talk again I took him his cawfee one morning, and sees him a-looking at himself in a little glass: and he looked fair frightened!
Come along er me an' get a cup er cawfee at a stand, an' buck up. If yer've give me that quid straight wish-yer-may-die I'll go with yer an' get a cup myself. I ain't 'ad a bite since yesterday an' 't wa'n't nothin' but a slice o' polony sossidge I found on a dust-'eap. Come on, mister." She pulled his coat with her cracked hand.
Then she stands theh at th' head of th' staihs an' she faulted me yes, seh she threaten me, Mahstah Majah, an' she tek mah clothes away, an' so on an' so fothe. Then Ah huhd huh a' mekin' th' fiah an' then she brung this yeh cawfee an' she done mek it that foolish that Ah can't tech it. Yes, seh, she plumb ruined that theh cawfee, that's what she done!" His tone was peevish.
"Course," Santry went on, in mock solicitude, "if I'd thought I mighta put a bit of sugar on that there gag, to remind you of your mammy like, but it ain't no great matter. You can put a double dose in your cawfee when you git loose." "Come on, Bill!" Wade commanded. "So long, Sheruff," Santry chuckled.
"Not like the last, mind; it was good water spoilt. I'll never come in 'ere again." "So you say!" said the girl, moving out of his way and laughing loudly. "Strike me balmy if I do!" "Where'll yer go then?" "Round the corner, of course," was the answer. "There's another bird there and cawfee! It's some stuff too, not like 'ere." "All right; don't come in again if yer don't want ter."
There was only the swift rattling of mail cars running to the Post Office, the heavy clank of country carts crawling to Covent Garden, the measured tread of policemen, and the muddled laughter of drunken men and women by the coffee stands at the street corners. "'Ow's the deluge, myte? Not come off yet? Well, give us a cup of cawfee on the strength of it."
"You won't be so much surprised when you've got 'em et. I'd try a soup, a mutton sandwich, and a cuppa cawfee for eight cents, if I was you. But see here, I ain't goin' to feed my face in this ranch after to-day. I knowed pretty near how punk 'twould be from things guyls told me about the Hands, and I only took a meal so as to see you and ask how the Giant Child was gettin' along.
"Cawfee," he observed, lighting his pipe, and filling the room with evil-smelling smoke, "clears the 'ead, not as mine wants clearing, mind you. But cawfee ain't bad, when rum ain't t' be 'ad." "You'll have more rum later," hinted Hurd. "Put it there," said Jessop, and again the detective was forced to wince at the strong grip of a horny hand.
He suddenly remembered that he had eaten nothing that day, and the fact gave a thrill of sincerity to the professional whine in which he made his request. "Say, lady," he begged urgently, "I'm down an' out. Gimme a cup o' cawfee, will yuh?" Her impulse, he saw clearly, had been to close the door in his face. Already her hand was automatically responding to it.
If Bill can't find us an Island, maybe 'e can show us a respectable 'ouse, where they make their cawfee strong an' not the 'ouse where 'e slept last night, if it's all the same to 'im." They found a small but decent tavern "The Wharfingers' Arms, Shipping Gazette daily" and breakfasted on coffee and boiled eggs. The coffee was strong and sticky. It did Bill good.
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