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This arrangement included our party of seven, Mary at Nome, and the three boys at work at this time on the new Home building, and would do away with all necessity for building a cabin, lumber being expensive and good logs scarce. Our first duty after arriving at Golovin was to look up our freight, which seemed to be in a general mix-up.
"So do I," said Guy, "I just love to play a side-splitting part like Hamlet." "Then you may have a chance," said Marian, "for one of the plays we're thinking about and it isn't exactly a play either brings in a whole lot of tragic characters in a humourous way. It's a general mix-up, you know: Hamlet, and Sairy Gamp, and Rip Van Winkle, and Old Mother Hubbard, and everybody."
"And I suppose," Sandy broke in, "that you were just taking a stroll by starlight and just happened to walk into this mine." "Sure," answered the other with a provoking grin. "Well, if anybody should ask you," Tommy continued, "you're the boy that had a mix-up with the tramp tonight, and ran away while we were trying to invite you to supper. What do you know about that?"
Again he felt the sickening sink of the plane, as if it were an elevator-car loosed from its cable. And this time, he felt instinctively, the wing would scrape the ice. And the bear, if he were still there? Well, there was going to be a crash and a general mix-up.
He didn't see the big cabbage coming. It knocked his feet from under him, and down he went with a thump, flat on his back. Right on top of him fell Jumper the Hare, who was close behind the runaway cabbage and had no time to turn aside. Over the two of them fell Peter Rabbit. Such a mix-up! And the big cabbage kept right on running away.
Not much to squander on out there, except whisky, and I never took to that. Besides my father's dead. He didn't mean to leave me his money you know how he loathed me but there was a mix-up over the will that was to cut me out not properly witnessed or something. Anyhow, I came out into a few thousand. Rather a joke on the old man, wasn't it?"
Now it was caught in the very flesh and almost pulling one arm from its socket, as he tried to make his own horse hold back. Dave turned swiftly and so did the others, and for the moment there was quite a mix-up on the narrow trail, and all were in danger of losing their footing.
I suggested, with an attempt at lightness. Peter nodded his head. "I've been wondering how long you're going to wait," he observed, apparently as much to himself as to me. "Wait for what?" I inquired. "For what you call your mix-up to untangle," was his answer. "There's nothing for me to do but to wait," I reminded him. He shook his head in dissent.
"You done damned well to start out with," commented the Texan dryly. "But, oh, it's horrible!" sobbed the girl, "and it's all my fault!" "I reckon that's right. It looks like a bad mix-up all around." "Oh, why didn't you tell me what a beast he was? You knew all the time. And when you insulted him I thought you were horrid! And I thought he was so noble when he refrained from shooting you." "No.
You see, I got a little mining concession out here in the mountains, and if I was to get into any diplomatic mix-up and bring in the police, it'd be bad for my business, besides maybe getting me a couple of tons of bracelets around my pretty little ankles. Like as not your friend, Professor Lamps, has got an equally good reason for keeping the peace."
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