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When the old woman left in charge of the housekeeping arrangements had come to his door with hot water and his usual breakfast a mug of strong coffee with milk and a roll he had gulped down the reviving, steadying draught thirstily, and swallowed a mouthful or two of the bread; and when he was shaved and tubbed and clothed in the shabby white drill suit, had gone down to the dispensary and mixed himself a dose of chloric ether and strychnine, strong enough to brace his jarred nerves for the coming ordeal.
And to-night, while I crept off tingling through the dark of Lovett's Court, he was in the Wilderness again, and I had seen him last. I brought up by one of the tubbed box-trees and peered in at the Pillar House with a new wonder. I was so used to it there, dead on the outside and living on the inside, that I had never learned to think of it as a strange thing.
I must say, though, that for a party who's been crossed off the dividend list for more'n a year, he's chuckin' a good bluff. Some spiffy bachelor apartments these are that I locates tubbed bay trees out front, tapestry panels in the reception-room, and a doorman uniformed like a rear-admiral.
Below was Burnamy behind the tubbed evergreens, sitting tilted in his chair against the house wall, with the spark of his cigar fainting and flashing like an American firefly. Agatha went down to the door, after a little delay, and seemed surprised to find him there; at least she said, "Oh!" in a tone of surprise. Burnamy stood up, and answered, "Nice night." "Beautiful!" she breathed.
The little garden was white and pink with roses and camellias, and the tubbed mandarins were heavy with fruit. "And this is March!" said Merrihew, his thought traveling back to his own bleak country, where winter is so long and summer is so short.
He made the old servant shave him, a thing he despised from any hand but his own. Then he tubbed, and continued this game of follow-the-leader throughout the entire toilette, affably talking all the while, until Dale emerged a different looking, and a much more gratified, man. "Lawd, Marse Dale," Uncle Zack had exclaimed, "you suah does look handsome!
On the clean-swept floor were a pair of soft moccasins, a dishpan, a bar of soap, and a large jar of water. When he limped out of his bedroom he had "tubbed" himself as thoroughly as an Englishman and felt as ravenous as a wolf. Elsie was alone in the living room, deftly handling pots and pans on the charcoal brazier. "Good morning," he hailed. "Glad I'm just in time for breakfast."
The hot bath that took the soreness out of her limbs brought back the colour to her face and lips. She even tubbed her head, rubbing the glistening curls dry with fierce vigour, striving to rid herself of the contamination that seemed to have saturated her.
This idea I got from Andrew Carnegie, with whom I had the honor to plant an oak at Skibo Castle and from whom I, like so many others, have had other things almost as good as ideas. Have your prospective souvenir tree tubbed and the tub sunk in the ground, of course, to its rim. Then the dear friend can plant it at any time that he may chance along between March and December.
Ronnie laughed very much at the recollection of this story, and tried to remember whether he had ever told it to Helen. Arrived at his club he shaved, tubbed, changed his clothes, and, leaving his 'cello in charge of the hall porter, sallied out with his manuscript to call upon his publisher. In his portmanteau he had found Dr. Dick's bottle of stuff to take on the journey.
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