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He first tried to find the park where he had left Tommie, but there were so many parks with trees and flowers and fountains in them! He crossed a bridge over a river that must have come tumbling all the way from the top of the Andes, it had such a head of speed on.
Tommie fetched their sundaes in that miraculous way waiters have of carrying cup and saucers heaped up, just as jugglers catch them. "Been practicin'?" inquired Grace glibly. "What for?" asked Tommie, whisking his towel over the table. "Why, for the contest," answered Grace, as if the whole world should know that. "Oh, yes a little," admitted Tommie, gliding off to a new customer.
"They think I am still rich, my dear," she answered. "So you are, but not in the way they mean," Tommie said. "And, Mother Huldah, if they neglect you a day longer it won't be your Tommie's fault." Then Mother Huldah shook her finger at him. "You switch your tail just as if you were going to steal something. Tommie, I brought you up better than that." "Steal! nonsense!" cried Tommie.
"I'm terrible glad to see you, Tommie," she said. "Are you? Honest?" he chortled. They jostled into each other and the crowd. "I'm awful hungry, though," she said, "and I've got oodles of things to tell you." "Let's eat," he said. They went to the all-night dairy restaurant in the Terminal.
Brady's way of laying the table, and how to eat properly! He thought of his mother and wished that she might see him. But she was at home caring for Barney and Tommie and Larry. "Sure and I can't lave 'em by thimsilves in the evenin'. Something moight happen to 'em," said this faithful mother. Such food Jim had not tasted before, but he ate sparingly.
"But I changed it myself first," Kedzie howled; and now the truth came ripping. "The day after you pulled me out of the pool at Newport I I married a fellow named Tommie Gilfoyle." Dyckman's smile was swept from his face; his chuckle ended in a groan. Kedzie's explanation was a little different from the one she gave her parents. Unconsciously she tuned it to her audience.
"Yes, it will," said Tommie, "long before your withered old soul will reach a haven of peace." Henley was so excited over the first words that he didn't even hear the last ones. He hopped about on one leg, and was rushing off at last when Tommie cried, "Heigh-O, you haven't paid me!" The miser felt in his pockets and drew out a silver coin and laid it on the handkerchief.
There was a good wind blowing, and when Uncle Wiggily raised the kite up off the ground, Tommie ran, holding the string that was fast to the kite and up and up and up it went in the air. Soon it was sailing quite near the clouds, almost like Uncle Wiggily's airship, only, of course, no one rode on the kite. "Have you any more string, Uncle Wiggily?" asked the kitten boy, after a bit.
There was work for all, and from the smallest girls and boys, including Tommie and Nellie Maguire, to Mr. DeVere himself, little spare time was to be had. Ruth and Alice had important parts, and they were given a general outline of what was expected of them. They would be in many scenes, and a variety of action would be required.
"I have five children, all girls but this one, and when I didn't see Tommie in his place, but saw, instead, this strange little chap, I didn't know what had happened." "That's just the way I felt," said Mrs. Bunker. "I have six, and when we travel it keeps me and their father busy looking after them." "My husband isn't with me now," said the woman, who gave her name as Mrs. Wilson.
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