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The old man made no reply until I had repeated the question, and then he said, slowly: "If there was any show of bein' able to work the trick, you could count on me to the end; but if he has fallen into their clutches, unless some wonderfully big turn of affairs comes in our path, we would be only throwin' away the lives of both without chance of helpin' him.
"Ef ye'd been jest a mite quicker in drawin', Bas," he declared, ironically, "or jest a mite tardier in throwin' down thet gun I'd hev hed ter kill ye. Now we kin talk some more." The conflict of wills was over and Rowlett's voice changed to a whine as he asked beseechingly: "What proof hev I got ye won't show ther paper ter some outsider afore we fights hit out?"
"An' sure she'll be throwin' up ivery blessed thing she'll ate for the next year," she said. "If I could only right side up her stomach. I wonder if an orange would do it;" and counting her little stock of money six shillings in all she took a few pennies, and going to the stewardess, bade her buy two of the finest and swatest oranges in the butler's pantry." "Here, honey!
"I think some of the girls at Zinsheimer's had been teasing him about me," she goes on. "They called me 'the poor little working girl, I believe. I've no doubt I looked it. But I haven't been able to spend much for clothes as yet." "Of course," says I, throwin' up a picture of an invalid mother and a coon-huntin' father back in the alfalfa somewhere.
So don't be so infarnal mealy-mouthed, with your mock modesty face, a turnin' up of the whites of your eyes as if you was a chokin', and savin' 'No Bun-kum, Mr. Slick. Cuss that word Bunkum! I am sorry I ever told you that are story, you will be for everlastinly a throwin' up of that are, to me now.
He had a bandage round his head an' another around his arm, while his leg was propped up on pillows. "What's the damage, Jabez?" I asked. "Where's Barbie?" he demanded, not payin' any heed to my question. She had flung herself from the pinto an' came running into the room. "Oh, Daddy," she said, throwin' her arms around him. "Where have you been?" sez he. "I been racin' with Happy," she said.
Miss Louise says to tell you to come right up to the house, the house, you understand, and get your breakfast with them. They said they was goin' to wait for you. I guess that ain't throwin' it into the rest of us some. Keep it up, Collie kid, keep it up, and you'll be payin' us all wages some day." A month had passed since the rescue of the blunder colt.
"'Sall right, Ellery," says I. "Friend." "What friend?" he demands, starin' at me suspicious. "You know," says I, whisperin' mysterious. "Oh!" says he. "From Headquarters?" "You've said it," says I. "But but how can I tell," he goes on, "that you ain't " "Look!" says I, throwin' back my coat and runnin' my thumb under the armhole of my vest. Sure it worked.
He looked down from the fuselage at the bright upturned face. "Oh, aye, it was me," he admitted, "an' A'm michty glad ye was lookin', for A' was throwin' stunts for ye." He was on the ground now, loosening the collar of his leather jacket. He stepped clear of the obstructing planes of his machine and looked anxiously toward the gentle slopes of the ridge on which the bomber had landed.
Can't ye see that the only thing that keeps her from throwin' her ar-rms around your neck is the fear of Harrigan? Look!" He pulled out the note which the consul had given him. "I've got the same thing you have. I'm going to go over the water. I tell you, I've seen her eyes whin she looked at ye, McTee, an' that's how I know she loves ye. Tear up your paper! A blight on ye!
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