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The poet lay face downwards across the body of his friend, and was crooning into his ear the great chorus from the third act of Helen in Leuce. He said that nobody but Spinky understood it. And Spinky couldn't understand it if he wasn't drunk. Whereupon Spinks was most curiously uplifted and consoled.

I always said that boy was a fool." The merchants and townspeople, their ardor a little dampened by the adverse decision of the men who knew plant-setting, went off by themselves. They went into Birdie Spinks' drugstore, but did not listen to the talk of Judge Hanby. "If the machine works, the town'll wake up," some one declared.

At least in the long-run it amounted to that, and Rickman had some difficulty in persuading Spinks that his scheme, though in the last degree glorious and romantic, was, from an ethical point of view, not strictly feasible. "What a rum joker you are, Rickman. I never thought of that. "I wonder who'll put you to bed, old chappy, when you're tight." "Don't fret, Spinky.

But when it doesn't make any difference to her, and it can't matter to you " He paused; but Rickman gathered that what he wished to plead was that in those circumstances he was clearly welcome to his "state." "I mean that if it's all up with me, you know, it's all right I mean, it's safe enough for you." Poor Spinks became lost in the maze of his own beautiful sentiments.

"`Oh, man, Jacob! you would enjoy a visit to Spinks's home, returned Tom, still taking no notice of my state of mind, `it's such a splendid place for trout-fishing, with a burn full of the deep oily pools you are so fond of, and lots of sea-trout; and Mrs Spinks is so kind and jolly though so delicate; just like little Spinks himself, but of course a good deal larger.

It's different from the kind we have, or what you can get in the regular stores. The Spinks have their goods sent by freight from the city." "Giant must be right," said Snap. "And look here, will you?" As he spoke Snap pulled from the dead embers of the fire a half-burned bit of wood. It was part of a signboard. "Humph! the signboard that was missing below here," muttered Shep.

"By the way," he continued in a fresher voice, and looking up, "that young crater, the schoolmis'ess, must be sung to to-night wi' the rest? If her ear is as fine as her face, we shall have enough to do to be up-sides with her." "What about her face?" said young Dewy. "Well, as to that," Mr. Spinks replied, "'tis a face you can hardly gainsay. A very good pink face, as far as that do go.

Under the Euripides was the piled up manuscript of Rickman's great neo-classic drama, Helen in Leuce. He implored Spinks to read it. "There," he said, "rea' that. Tha's the sor' o' thing I write when I'm drunk. Couldn' do it now t' save my life. Temp'rance been my ruin." He threw himself on his bed.

As the game now stood the moral approbation of Spinks was more valuable to her than the moral approbation of Rickman; and in venturing this final move she had reckoned that the moral approbation of Rickman was all she had to lose. Unless, of course, he chose to give her away. But Rickman could be trusted not to give her away.

She knew it by the sudden softening of his voice as he spoke to her, by the curious brilliant dilation of his eyes as they followed her about the room. For after much easy practice on Mr. Spinks she knew precisely by what movements and what glances she could best produce these interesting effects. And yet nothing could be farther from Flossie's fancy than flirtation.