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It's a grim tragedy being played out here with nobody knowing but you and me." "Saxon, I'm in no mood for all this tonight," Burgess said, "but for your daughter's sake keep away from the man's bottle now." "Yes, for Dennie's sake " Bond looked imploringly at Burgess. "Yes, yes, I'll do my duty as I promised. But why not do it yourself toward her? Why not be a man and a father?" "Me! A criminal!
"I dunno 'bout dat, Dennie, but 'f I cud talk like er you I'd bin an Eyetalian Prince by dis time, wid a title wot ud reach across dis room an' jewels ter match," and The Croak looked at his friend in undisguised admiration. But Dennie's humor was pensive. "Croaker," said he, drawing the ten-dollar bill out of his pocket and nodding suggestively to the bartender, "look out there in the street.
Then down by the river Dennie's soprano streamed out, The sun is sot, The coffee's hot, The supper's got. What? Yes! Got! Answering this call from the north end of the Corral, a heavy base growled, Dennie is sad, The eggs are bad; The Professor's mad At a College lad. Burleigh! Burly! Burlee! Come home! Come home! Come home! "The Kickapoos are on the warpath.
"This is Vincent Burgess," the young man replied. "Dennie home?" the father asked. "Yes, sir," came the curt answer. "Who? Who bring her home? Vic Burleigh?" "I brought her home. She is a good girl, too." In spite of himself, Burgess resented the shame of such a father for the capable, happy-spirited daughter. "Yesh, Dennie's good girl, all right." Then a silence fell.
I never knew why until yesterday. My sister's husband had a brother out here with whom he meant to divide some possessions he had inherited. That settled him with my father forever. There was no DIVISION of property in his creed." Burgess paused. Dennie's interest and sympathy made her silent company a comfort. "I was heir to my father's estate, and heir also to some funds he held in trust.
"I must be nervous," Professor Burgess said, trying to manage Dennie's umbrella and catching it in her hair. "I had a letter today that worried me." "Too bad!" Dennie said sympathetically. "I'll tell you all about it sometime." He was trying to loose the wire rib-joint from Dennie's hair, which the dampness was rolling in soft little ringlets about her forehead and neck.
Failing in that, to the nearest related V. B. It was a thing for lawyers, not Greek professors, to settle, and I came to be the nearest related V. B., Vincent Burgess, for I find the money belonged to my sister's husband, and I thought he left no heirs and I am the nearest related V. B. by marriage, you see?" "Well?" Dennie's mind was jumping to the end.
But the high walls hid all this from the valley and the heedless young folk took the full time limit of their holiday in the sheltering gloom of the old Kickapoo Corral. Rock and moan, and roar alone, And the dread of some nameless thing unknown. THE silence following Dennie's story was broken by a sudden peal of thunder overhead.
"Don't you think the young ruffian was pretty hard on me?" he asked. "No, I don't," Dennie said, frankly. "I think you were pretty hard on him." A sudden resolve seized Burgess. He came around to Dennie's side of the table. "Miss Dennie, I want to tell you something, unimportant in itself, but better shared than kept. On the night of our picnic in October your father, who was not quite himself "
Those detachments driven back, Dennie suddenly found himself opposed to the irregular mass of Oosbeg horse and foot which constituted the army of the Dost. Mackenzie's cannon fire shook the undisciplined horde, the infantry pressed in to close quarters, and soon the nondescript host of the Dost was in panic flight, with Dennie's cavalry in eager pursuit.
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