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"I'm a good deal tempted to help you out, that is, if it is to the interest of the public that the story be told." "It will interest the public. You can bet on that!" Curly laughed sardonically. Then he rose, with a yawn. "But it's late and we'll finish the story to-morrow night. Judge, I have a hunch you're my man! I sabez there's heap devil in you, if we could once get you mad."
Sweet as arrow weed in spring! sing that little bird to Elephant. And he stop, stop so long here by river while that little bird build her nest in his side, he turn to stone and live forever. "Then Theeka, he sabez. He lead his beautiful girl back to chief and he say to chief: 'I have found strongest thing in world. It is love.
"Don't go without it. Now! there's no knowing but what we may not have further dealings with one another. I'm a money-lender I've a place down-stairs I take all sorts of things all sorts of things. On the strict Q.T. mind. Sabez!"
"Who sabez the way of the Great Spirit? He make you go. He make Injun go. He make nigger and Chinamans stay. Perhaps they right, you and Injun wrong. Who sabez?" "I'd like to have finished my dam," Jim muttered. "Somehow we are inadequate. I woke up too late." And suddenly a deeper significance came to him of Pen's verse "Too late for love, too late for joy; Too late! Too late!
This was what had put the new strain into Jim's face, the new pleading into his voice. "How shall I help him," she moaned. "You no tell him, you sabez," repeated Suma-theek. "He want you think he Boss here long as he can. All men's like that with their squaw." "I won't tell him," promised Pen. "But what shall I do?" She clasped and unclasped her fingers, then she sprang to her feet. "I know!
When the four o'clock whistle blew and the shifts changed, some one sat down silently near Jim. Jim worked on for a few moments, finishing his problem. Then he looked up. Suma-theek was sitting on a rock, smoking and watching Jim. "Boss," he began, "you sabez that story old Suma-theek tell you?" Jim nodded. "Why don't you do it, then?" the old Indian went on. Jim looked puzzled.
"Say, Boss Still Jim," he whispered, "that old nut of a chairman doesn't look as if he had anything but skim milk in his veins. But do you sabez he's danced three times with that little fat ballet girl and he's hugging the daylights out of her. He'd ought to be investigated." The tall domino looked at the couple indicated. "I'll start investigating, myself," he whispered.
"They always shut up and look rejus when I come round. But I know enough to sabez that bunch even if I am a half-wit." "I'm not so sure you are a half-wit, Johnny," said Douglas sincerely. The old man's face brightened. "That's just the way I feel about it too, Douglas. You're the only person in the Valley understands me. You could have my shirt, Doug." Douglas nodded.
"And chief, he say: 'You and your children's children shall be chiefs. I have not known love and so I die." Suma-theek's mellow voice merged into the desert silence. "But the eagle and the flag?" asked Jim. "Injuns no understand about them," replied the old chief. "You sabez the story old Suma-theek tell you?" "I understand," replied Jim.
Then they took me to Manning and he treated me like a gentleman and asked me for my word of honor to keep off the Project. I know men. And I saw that the fellow I'd set out to do was a real man, carrying a load that was too big for the likes of me to sabez and that it made him sad and lonely.
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