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"What's he after?" "I dunno. I only seen him twicet. Las' time he was sneakin' fum de top flo'. But I cert'n'y don' like dat man's looks!" Nothing more was to be learned from Sam. Laurie thoughtfully walked out into the square. He had taken not more than a dozen steps when a voice, strange yet unpleasantly familiar, accosted him. "Good-evening, Mr. Devon," it said. Laurie turned sharply.
"An' you take this yer bundle and bile it in two gallons of wather and drink a glassful ivery hour, an' hev a loive chicken sphlit with an axe an' laid hot on the place twicet ivery day, till the proud flesh goes, an' it'll be all right wid ye a fresh chicken ivery toime, moind ye." "Wouldn't turkeys do better?" groaned Sam, feebly.
"I wanted to say that you fellows have always done the right thing by me. You've set me acrost oncet or twicet, and you've always been 'clever' to me, and I don't want to see no harm done you. You'd better look out to-night.
"She told me not to tell, too," said Miss Hazy; "but I don't know what we're goin' to say to Mrs. Schultz. She 'most sprained her back tryin' to see who it was, an' Mrs. Eichorn come over twicet pertendin'-like she wanted to borrow a corkscrew driver." "Tell 'em she was a newfangled agent," said Mrs. Wiggs, with unblushing mendacity "a' agent fer shoestrings."
She went on, gloomily: "You used to fish sometimes with a Yankee recruit named Allen Roy Allen?" "Ye-s'm," he sniveled. "There's my fish-pole an' his'n layin' onto the roof " "How did he hail you when he wanted you to come across to take him fishing?" "He jest come down to the shore an' hollered twicet " She bent closer, scanning his dilated eyes; speech died on his lips.
Somethin' may happen to keep me from enjoyin' myself any more'n you are this minute. An' my suz! I smell that ham water b'ilin' over this instant. An' what next! There's Kitty Keehoty comin' out the tool-house with that roll o' grapevine wire that you put away so careful an' it's most more'n she can lug. But she'd tackle it. She'd tackle it if it was twicet as heavy.
It seemed to strike her like a thunderbolt, and she was trying to arraign herself for this as she rode along. It was therefore not helpful to her state of mind to have her grandmother remark grimly: "That feller o' yours 'n his oughtymobble has been goin' up an' down this street, day in, day out, this whole blessed summer. Ain't been a day he didn't pass, sometimes once, sometimes twicet.
It's not so lively fur her tied to her bed er her chair, even ef John does write to her reg'lur twicet a week." And now Hazel noticed that on the covered veranda in front of the wing of the house across the way there sat an old lady on a reclining wheeled chair, and that another woman in a plain blue gown hovered near waiting upon her.
And you can bet yore sweet young life I hailed them words with joy! What yuh done to 'im that he's sendin' yuh off down to Sinkhole? Me, I 'phoned in and much as told 'em he'd have to double my pay if he wanted me to stay down there any longer. That was a coupla days ago. Didn't git no satisfaction atall till to-day. Me, I'd ruther go to jail, twicet over, than stay here a week longer.
I never thought to be goin' to Dublin, an' I suppose America is twicet as far." "Aye, an' ten times as far," cried Peggy Murphy. Dan looked appealingly round as though seeking contradiction, but could not summon up enough courage to speak.
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