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Oh, my, my, my! And then he laughs all over for five minutes. "Sometimes Murkison was serious and tried to talk himself out of his cogitations, whatever they was. "'Boys, says he, 'I wouldn't have this to get out in Grassdale for ten times a thousand dollars. It would ruin me there. But I know you all are all right.
"After we talk on all the notorious themes of the day, this Murkison for such was his entitlements takes a letter out of his coat pocket in a careful, careless way and hands it to us to read. "'Now, what do you think of that? says he, laughing 'a letter like that to ME! "Me and Andy sees at a glance what it is; but we pretend to read it through.
I'd hate to see any money dropped in it as bad as you would. "Well, we went to see Murkison. "'No, boys, says he. 'I can't consent to let the song of this Chicago siren waft by me on the summer breeze. I'll fry some fat out of this ignis fatuus or burn a hole in the skillet. But I'd be plumb diverted to death to have you all go along with me.
"'I don't call myself a religious man, says I, 'or a fanatic in moral bigotry, but I can't stand still and see a man who has built up his business by his own efforts and brains and risk be robbed by an unscrupulous trickster who is a menace to the public good. "'Right, Jeff, says Andy. 'We'll stick right along with Murkison if he insists on going and block this funny business.
When he reached his lodging, he found a note from Donal waiting him, in which he bade him good-bye, said he was gone to his mother, and asked him to pack up his things for him: he would write to Mistress Murkison and tell her what to do with the chest. A sense of loneliness, such as in all his forsaken times he had never felt, overshadowed Gibbie when he read this letter.
He packed Donal's things, with all the books they had bought together, and committed the chest to Mistress Murkison. He then told her he would rather not give up his room just yet, but would like to keep it on for a while, and come and go as he pleased; to which the old woman replied, "As ye wull, Sir Gibbie. Come an' gang as free as the win'. Mak o' my hoose as gien it war yer ain."
"'Andy, says I, 'I may have had one or two hard thoughts about the heartlessness of your corporation, but I retract 'em now. You have a kind nucleus at the interior of your exterior after all. It does you credit. I was just thinking the same thing that you have expressed. It would not be honorable or praiseworthy, says I, 'for us to let Murkison go on with this project he has taken up.
These rooms, he gave her to understand, he wished her to furnish, getting as many things as she could from Mistress Murkison. Going back then to the sitting-room, he proceeded to explain his plans, telling her he had furnished the house that he might not any longer be himself such a stranger as to have no place to take a stranger to.
Gang ye to the minister's door and speir for 'im! He'll be doon the stair like a shot. But 'deed maybe he's come back, an' 's i' my chaumer the noo! Ye'll come up the stair an' see?" "Na, I wunna dee that," said Mistress Croale, who did not wish to face Mistress Murkison, well known to her in the days of her comparative prosperity.
"'Why, I'll tell you what I say, says I. 'I say let's settle this thing right here now. I don't see any use of wasting any more time. I took a nickel-plated .38 out of my pocket and clicked the cylinder around a few times. "'You undevout, sinful, insidious hog, says I to Murkison, 'get out that two thousand and lay it on the table.
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