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The Chinese cook obeyed the order in a hurry, highly flattered and not a little nervous at the presence of the great man in the kitchen. While Kern was there, Arizona entered. The sheriff greeted him cheerfully, with his coffee cup balanced in one hand. "Arizona," he said, "or Dago, or whatever you like to be called " "Cut the Dago part, will you?" demanded Arizona.
Homans over-ran second, intending to go on, but, halted by Weir's hoarse coaching, he ran back. When Reddy Ray stepped out it was to meet a rousing cheer, and then the thousands of feet went crash! crash! crash! Reddy fouled the first ball over the grand-stand. Umpire Kern threw out a new one, gleaming white.
The door opened and Kern tripped in with a little kick, and a flash and tinkle of jewelry at neck and waist. She never merely walked when it was possible to dance. "My regular shirts," said the young man, standing on the floor and brushing his hair with a worried hand, "have the buttons sewed on, of course.... Seems to me O'Neill might have thought of this contingency."
Care of the rooms was strictly included in the boarder's twenty dollars a month, but Kern was not thinking of it that way exactly. "Mommer, what makes him have that kinder sorry look all the time, I wonder?" she said, when Mrs. Garland followed her in. "Sorry, what you talkin' about? A pleasanter spoke gempman I never see. Hand me them pants." "I'll fold'em, mommer.
"I ain't no ways wishing to be reminded of that name. Nobody calls me that." Kern grinned covertly. "I s'pose," said Arizona slowly, "that you and Sinclair had a long yarn about when he knew me some time back?" The sheriff shook his head. "Between you and me," he said frankly, "it sounded to me like Sinclair knew something you mightn't want to have noised around. Is that straight?"
Now dat's against both law and gospel, for eben He who took de big contrac' ter save the worl' said ter his disciples, 'come ye yourselves apart and rest a while. I reckon dat's de law and de gospel for you, Mis' Buggone, about dis time." Nods of approval were general, and Kern Watson gave the sense of the meeting in his hearty way. "'Deed it am, Elder," he said.
As his arm fell, he noted that Arizona had seen something which fascinated him. His eyes followed every gesture of the sheriff's hand. "Is that the whole story?" asked Arizona. "The whole thing," declared Kern stoutly, and he glared at the man from the southland. "Because if it's anything worse," said Arizona innocently, "we'd ought to know it. The honor of Woodville is at stake."
Instantly noise and movement ceased. It was a spectacular picture, the stubby little sheriff and the tall, lean, wolflike man he had captured. It seemed a vivid illustration of the power of the law over the lawbreaker. Sinclair glanced down in wonder at Kern. It was in character for the sheriff to make a speech.
These were Ak, the Master Woodsman of the World, who rules the forests and the orchards and the groves; and Kern, the Master Husbandman of the World, who rules the grain fields and the meadows and the gardens; and Bo, the Master Mariner of the World, who rules the seas and all the craft that float thereon. And all other immortals are more or less subject to these three.
Adjacent was another cabin, owned by a son-in-law, named Kern Watson, who had married their youngest daughter years before, and he was the pride of Aun' Sheba's heart. Uncle Sheba felt that he was not appreciated, or perhaps appreciated too well, by his son-in-law, and their intercourse was rather formal. On the evening in question, supper was over, but the table had not yet been cleared.
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