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And yet, being very much a woman, those words of praise came altogether sweetly to Katherine from the lips of her brother and her son. She moved away, embarrassed, not quite mistress of herself, sat down on the arm of Richard's chair, leaned across him and patted the bull-dog who raised his heavy head with a grunt, and slapped Dickie smartly in the stomach with his tail, by way of welcome.
"Come on, come on, good dog," said Edred, "come on, True," for his fancy pictured Dickie a prisoner in some lonely cottage, and he longed to get to it and set him free and get safe back home with him. So he pulled at the chain. But True only shook himself and went on digging. The spot he had chosen was under a clump of furze bigger than any they had passed.
He dropped an enormous number of buds; so many, in fact, that Dickie Deer Mouse wondered how Mr. Pine Finch managed to get enough breakfast for himself. Perhaps that odd gentleman knew what he was about. To tell the truth, he had noticed the day before that Dickie Deer Mouse looked thin and hungry. His coat, too, struck Mr. Pine Finch as being somewhat shabby.
But Girlie is agoing to marry Jim. He run right back to her like a little lost lamb the second you was gone. Likely, he'll never touch liquor again. I haven't heard from Dickie. I guess he's gone where the saloons are bigger and where you can get oysters with your drinks. He always was a damn fool. I would dearly like to go over to Hidden Creek and see you, but I feel like I'd better not.
"I promised, if thou wast a good lad and biddable and constant at thy book and thy manly exercises, to give thee, so soon as thou should'st have learned to ride him " "A little horse?" said Dickie breathlessly; "oh, father, not a little horse?" It was good to hear one's father laugh that big, jolly laugh to feel one's father's arm laid like that across one's shoulders.
Sheila's eyes filled. "It was dreadful to to knock him down the steps!" "Say, if you'd had as much to put up with from Dickie as Poppa's had " "Oh," said Sheila in a tone that welled up as from under a weight, "if I had always lived in Millings, I'd drink myself!" Babe looked red and resentful, but Sheila's voice rushed on. "That saloon is the only interesting and attractive place in town.
Very frankly Rosie looked her opinion of me as we left. It was interesting to note the elaborate strategy used by Dickie to conceal the fact that he waved his handkerchief to her. There ensued a long silence between us, but of this Dickie seemed unconscious. He broke it by whistling "Bedelia" two notes off the key. "It's too bad, Dickie," I said, finally, "that you dislike girls so much."
The high falsetto announced the Missionary's boy of twelve, who promptly turned a hand spring over the slab bench, never pausing in a running fire of exuberant comment. "Get on y'r bib and tucker, Dickie! You're goin' t' have a s'prise party right away! Senator Moses and Battle Brydges, handy-andy-dandy, comin' up with Dad and MacDonald! Oh, hullo, Miss Eleanor, how d' y' get here ahead?
"That's what every one calls me the men over in the Big Horn country they tell men that are coming to Millings to be sure to look up 'Hudson's Queen. Do they mean the Hotel, Dickie? They do mean the Hotel, don't they, Dickie? that I am The Hudson's Queen?" The truth sometimes presents itself like a withering flame. Dickie got up, put away her hands, walked up and down, then came back to her.
And the remnant was scattered and driven northward, and some were wrecked on the rocks, and some our ships met and dealt with, and some poor few made shift to get back across the sea, trailing home like wounded mallards, to tell the King their master what the Lord had done for England." "How long ago was it, all this?" Dickie asked.
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