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When he had gathered up his dismayed and scattered wits, he gravely answered: "Muggie, these eyes that appear in your dreams is it a particular color or a certain expression which they have?" "Color," she answered. "What color?" "A soft, pale, limpid amber." She said it so innocently, so earnestly, so sweetly, that he could doubt neither her sincerity nor her sanity.
Poor half-caste Jimmy Yaeki Muggie, a pleasant-voiced lad, who always wore in his face the slur of conscious shame of birth, died apparently from heart failure, an after-effect of rheumatic fever. Tom and Nelly mourned deeply and wrathfully. Smarting under the rod of fate, they sought with indignant mien counsel upon the cause of death. Jimmy was a young fellow.
"Well," he remarked, contemptuously, drawing Zoë closer and holding her with a tender solicitude "well, what of it?" His insolence enraged Hoolagaloo. "H hwat of eet! Santa Maria! Da scound! Ha, ha! Da gal no marry you now!" Sampey deliberately moved Zoë so that he might reach his watch, and after looking calmly at it a moment he said: "Muggie and I have been married just thirty hours."
Muggie, these dreams indicate your destiny. You should marry none but a hero, and when he comes you will know him by his amber eyes." With this Sampey sighed, for Muggie was looking earnestly into his gray eyes. Had he thus, in blind self-sacrifice to the whim of a foolish girl, cast himself into a pit? If so, what meant his light step and cheerful smile as soon as she was out of sight?
Yes, very well, indeed." "Ha, you sly Samp! I spik about da leetle ploompa gal da Mug." "Oh! Muggie? Castellani's daughter?" "Ha." "Well, I don't know her so very well." "You don' know da Mugga?" Bat's look was becoming dangerously fierce. He straightened himself up from his lounging posture, and his big muscles swelled. "You don' know da Mugga! You tink I no see. You loafa da Mugga!
Yet what shock there was next day, when the hero of her dreams came to her with his ordinary pale-gray eyes, blurred somewhat and inclined to humidity! "Sampey!" she exclaimed in dismay, tumbled thus rudely from the clouds. "Muggie!" "Your eyes last night then you were a hero; but to-day " "A hero!" innocently echoed Sampey. "Why, yes!
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