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But I'm a just man," sez I, "an' overlookin' the presumpshin that yondher settee wid the gilt top was not come by honust" at that he turned sky-green, so I knew things was more thrue than tellable "not come by honust, I'm willin' to compound the felony for this month's winnin's." 'Ah! Ho! from Learoyd and Ortheris.
Is it tellable?" "I see no reason why not," said the Consul; "the sufferer made no secret of it, and I know of no reason why I should. Mynheer Van Holland told me the story himself, in Amsterdam, in the year 'Thirty-five." "And who was he?" I inquired, "and what had he to do with it?"
"A good reason; but not one that was very tellable. You really don't want me saying to a man that I can't eat his dinner because my wife dislikes him." Lorimer had no notion that his words could sting his wife, and he was surprised at her heightened color and at the sudden aggressive poise of her head. Then swiftly she controlled herself.
Never once after that escape did he meddle again with the stupendous development of the Food of the Gods he of all men had done most to begin. This little man who started the whole thing passes out of the story, and after a time he passed altogether out of the world of things, visible and tellable.
Then we sat down, and a man with a hurt heart told me about his hurt, and what an effort he was making to get through the world as the woman he loved would have had him; and before I knew what I was doing, Linda, I told him the tellable part of my own hurts. I even lifted my turban and bowed my white head before him.
They were, he fancied, not very tellable memories, being compounded not so much of word and deed as of those more subtle things without voice or being which are no less terribly, evilly, real and whose mark remains longest upon the soul. Even complete understanding would not help him to rub out these markings. Only that slow over-growing of life, which we call forgetfulness, could do that.
But I'm a just man, sez I, 'an' over-lookin' the presumpshin that yondher settee wid the gilt top was not come by honust' at that he turned sky-green, so I knew things was more thrue than tellable 'not come by honust. I'm willin' to compound the felony for this month's winnin's." "Ah! Ho!" from Learoyd and Ortheris.
The story is tellable in a few words, and may be introduced by this drawing of "The White Farm," so christened because of the whiteness of the walls of its house; although, as will be noticed, there was little of this or anything else left upstanding when I drew my sketch.
He was rather interesting too, in a way, since he had experienced many adventures in the course of his wanderings in remote parts of the country, which adventures were rather tellable. He even knew a lot about China, too, which is more than most people do who have lived in China many years.
This not only reduces the story to tellable form, but it also leaves a suggestive interest which heightens later enjoyment of the original. I suggest the adaptation of Kate Douglas Wiggin, in The Story Hour, since in view of the existence of a satisfactory adaptation it seems unappreciative to offer a second.
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