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Monsieur le Prince de Markeld." "Oh," cried Pelletan. "Monsieur le Prince hass apartment B de luxe." "And so has twice as much room as he needs, of course. Well, take my luggage up there, wherever it is. At my age, one is beyond the reach of scandal, even at a Dutch bathing-resort. Where is Monsieur le Prince?" "Monsieur le Prince iss taking t'e promenade," explained Pelletan.
I haf exblained to him the viewss of our Ettical Surkle upon de future state, and he hass listened so attentifely, and ven I haf looked at him I haf found dat he wass asleep. Oh, his sleep wass so benign! I haf vept; I could not hellp it. He iss a shild of nature;" and good Mr. Michst wiped a tear from his eye.
"I wanted to gif you the other handt, too, but I gafe it to your gountry a goodt while ago." "To my country?" asked March, with a sense of pain, and yet lightly, as if it were a joke of the old man's. "Your country, too, Lindau?" The old man turned very grave, and said, almost coldly, "What gountry hass a poor man got, Mr. Marge?"
'My tear, he added, turning to his wife, who had re-entered the cottage with a pitcher of milk; 'these young ladies and gentlemen will hev been making a compact that they will help Neil, and prove that he hass not committed the robbery.
Innerarity," exclaimed the apothecary, "I fear you are making a great mistake." "You tink I hass too much?" "Well, sir, to be candid, I do; but that is not your greatest mistake." "What she's worse?" The apothecary simultaneously smiled and blushed. "I would rather not say; it is a passably good example of Creole art; there is but one way by which it can ever be worth what you ask for it."
Then the apple rose in his throat, and he turned him round about that I might not guess the tear was at his eye. "Tuts," said I, broken, "'tis at my own; I feel like a girl." "Just a tickling at the pap o' the hass," he said in English; and then we both laughed. It was the afternoon when we got into the town.
"It is true, Mynheer Jacobus," said Martinus somewhat hastily, and he walked back to his own house without looking Huysman in the eyes again. Mynheer Huysman, Robert and Peter returned slowly. "I think Hendrik understands me," said Mynheer Huysman; "I am sorry that we did not catch the go-between, but Hendrik hass had a warning, und he will be afraid. Our night's work iss not all in vain.
"He hass a strong arm und a head with but little in it. It would be best that he know nothing of this, or he would surely muddle it." They drew back behind some shrubbery, and Andrius Tefft, night watchman, passed by without a suspicion that one of Albany's most respected citizens was hiding from him.
"Ah, phooh!" he said, indicating the end of his speech by dropping the stump of his cigarette into the sand on the floor and softly spitting upon it, "le Shylock de la rue Carondelet!" and then in English, not to lose the admiration of the Irish waiter: "He don't want to haugment me! I din hass 'im, because the 'lection. But you juz wait till dat firce of Jannawerry!"
Dill was startled from a reverie inspired by the back of Julia's head. "'Heathen'?" he said, in plaintive inquiry. "I meant Herbert," Florence informed him. "Cousin Herbert Atwater. He was following us, walking Dutch." "'Cousin Herbert Atwater'?" said Noble dreamily. "'Dutch'?" "He won't any more," said Florence. "He always hass to show off, now his voice is changing."
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