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"By Jove," he said, "now that I come to think of it, I am the head of a family there's Fiddle-dee-dee, and I shall have to reckon with Fiddle-dee-dee's children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren who will expect that my portrait will hang on the wall at Huntersfield."
Rebecca exclaimed again. Rigid with excitement and dread, they stood there listening. At length Droop pulled himself free of Rebecca's hold. "That's some o' them palace folks chasin' after me!" he cried, in a panic. "Fiddle-dee-dee!" Rebecca exclaimed, with energy. "How should they know where you are?" By this time the sounds were more distinct, and they could easily make out cries of: "Traitor!
Hargrave," the superintendent objected. "Fiddle-dee-dee!" said Mrs. Hargrave. "What ward is she in?" The superintendent gave up. She had known that she would. Mrs. Hargrave always had her own way. She led them down to the elevator, where they waited and waited with what patience they could gather until the car came slowly down and took them up to the general wards. They tiptoed in.
"You don't mean to say, aunt, that you believe there is no trickery about this!" "But how can there be? You know, Sanford, it's easy enough to say 'poppycock' and 'fiddle-dee-dee! and 'gammon' and 'spinach! But just tell me how it's done how it can be done by trickery? Suggest a means however complicated or difficult " "Oh, of course, I can't. I'm no charlatan or prestidigitateur!
But here was little Mary smiling up at him and telling him that he was a king with a crown and she liked it. "Well, well. Let's sit down, Mary." "Fish, if you want to, and I'll watch." He baited his hook and cast his line into the stream. It had a bobbing red cork which fascinated Fiddle-dee-dee.
Now and then they snapped at flies but otherwise they were motionless. Before the half hour was up Fiddle-dee-dee fell asleep, and the Judge waking, saw on the other side of a stream propped against the gray old oak, the young mother cool in her white dress, her child in her arms. "Father had to go," she told him, and explained the need; "he'll send Calvin for the basket."
"The doctor may not want you to have it," said her anxious nurse. "Just to hold in my hand," begged Madge. So Mary picked a golden apple, and when the doctor came after dark, he found the room in all the dimness of shaded lamplight, and the golden girl asleep with that golden globe in her hand. Up-stairs the mulatto girl, Daisy, was putting Fiddle-dee-dee to sleep.
Her words were disappointing, but the dispirited tone in which she said them was cheering, and Tom made so bold as to sing the lately revived "Duty, duty must be done, the rule applies to everyone, and painful though the duty be, to shirk the task were fiddle-dee-dee..."; a happy impulse, for when Henry arrived from his five o'clock he found Tom at the piano and Nancy sitting by him, the one in the rôle of the Mikado of Japan and the other as his daughter-in-law-elect.
"She ought to stay here for three or four days anyway." "Fiddle-dee-dee!" said Mrs. Hargrave. "Home is the place for her, and besides I have reasons for wanting her to be under the care of her grandmother right away." "I can't take the responsibility," said the superintendent stubbornly. "You will have to see the house doctor, Mrs. Hargrave." "Very well," said Mrs. Hargrave.
"The neighborhood calls her Fiddle Flippin," the Judge reminded him. "What's in a name?" said Truxton, and swung his baby high in the air. "Do you love your daddy, Fiddle-dee-dee?" "'Ess," said Fiddle, having accepted him at once on the strength of sweet chocolate, and an adorable doll. "What are they saying?" whispered Aunt Claudia, still tense in the middle of the room.
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