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Berande has been very unfortunate. All the old- timers shake their heads at it. They say it has what you Americans call a hoodoo on it." "Berande will succeed," Joan said stoutly. "I like to laugh at superstition. You'll pull through and come out the big end of the horn. The ill luck can't last for ever. I am afraid, though, the Solomons is not a white man's climate." "It will be, though.
Withal, she can see David Lockwin sitting his last hours on that lounge. How unhappy he was! Ah! could he only have read her letter! "I don't just remember what I did after I found I wasn't fixed. It flabbergasted me, don't you forget it! I know I sneezed and you must excuse me out there a while ago and a big first mate he tried to put the hoodoo on me.
"And when we do come back, we'll have enough doubloons with us to buy up the whole city," joked Drew. "Don't be too sure of that," smiled Ruth. "Those who go out to shear sometimes come back shorn." "We simply can't fail," asserted Drew. "Especially as we're taking a mascot along with us." "The mascot may prove to be a hoodoo," laughed Ruth.
She talked some about the stars, referring to them with respect and politeness, and I drivelled a quantity about united hearts, homes made bright by true affection, and the Kindler. Mame listened without scorn, and I says to myself, 'Jeff, old man, you're removing the hoodoo that has clung to the consumer of victuals; you're setting your heel upon the serpent that lurks in the gravy bowl.
"This tomfoolery is too idiotic for me." Cameron followed, and Mrs. Quigg also rose. "I'll go with you," she said, decidedly. I was willing to quit, too, but Mrs. Harris and Miss Brush pleaded with me to continue. "Close up the circle, then. Probably Harris was the hoodoo. Things will happen now," I said, briskly, though still without any faith in the experiment.
Presently a cry arose, and it came from Davy Jones. "Say, look at that Smithy, would you; bless me if he ain't got some white sheets, and a regular nightgown. Now, what dye think of that, fellows? Are we going to allow such sissy goings-on in this, our first camp? He'd hoodoo the whole business, sure. No luck with such baby play.
"Well," answered Jimmy hotly, "it's about time that somebody besides me did something around this place." "YOU," mocked Zoie, "all YOU'VE ever done was to hoodoo me from the very beginning." "If you'd taken my advice," answered Jimmy, "and told your husband the truth about the luncheon, there'd never have been any 'beginning."
"It'll be a sure hoodoo if Prescott can't pitch the season's first game," declared a man who seldom missed a High School game on the home diamond. Before three o'clock the grand stand was comfortably filled. The cheaper seats beyond held about as many spectators as they were built to hold. The attendance, that day, was nearly three thousand.
"Well, what do you think of the hoodoo ship, Horrors?" he hoarsely whispered. Newbegin stared at him unwaveringly, and the red-haired one repeated the question. The old salt finally batted one eye, slowly and impressively. "D'you know what answer the little boy got that asked the quahog the time o' day?" he drawled. "Not a word. Not a derned word, 'Rion."
She's a Jonah, a Hoodoo to us all to this place. She's got rotten luck all over her and you brought her here. You needn't try an' sling mud at me fer handing them the rot-gut the boys ask for. Get that woman out of the place and things'll level up right away." The man's rudeness still seemed to have no effect. "But all this doesn't seem to fit in with with this affair to-night," the Padre argued.
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