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The ticket-agent stared stubbornly into the infinite, making no sign till a coin rang on the window-ledge; when he started, eyed the offering with fugitive mistrust, and gloomily possessed himself of it. "I'll look after them," he said. "Be ye thinkin' of walkin'?" "Yes," said Amber over his shoulder. He was already moving toward the door. "Knaow yeour wa-ay?" "I've been here before, thank you."
Hugging her knees together with both lithe brown arms, she puckered her lips and began to whistle the refrain: "'Sca-atter sunshine All along the wa-ay; Cheer and bless and bri-ighten Every passing da-ay." The lame girl joined in with her rich, sweet tones, and they sang it through to the end.
"More likely he thinks we are lost!" Rhoda exclaimed so that Grace, at least, heard her. Then she shouted to the others: "This way! This way!" "Wha-at wa-ay?" demanded Bess Harley. "I I'm going every-which-way, right now!" But, in a very few minutes, it appeared that this sudden tempest was nothing to make fun over.
"Sca-atter sunshine, all along the wa-ay," sang the lame girl, surprised out of her long silence in her anxiety to cajole her little playmate into her happy self again; but Peace did not even hear the rich sweetness of the voice, so surprised was she to have her motto turned upon her in that manner, and for a few moments she sat so lost in thought that the lame girl feared she had offended her, and was about to beg her forgiveness when the round face lifted itself again, and Peace exclaimed, "That's what I'll do!
It was very thin; "a good sounding-board," thought I as I listened for life or death and hoped my ear was the only one against it. The discussion warmed and I began to catch words and meanings. Oftenest they were old Lucius Oliver's, whose bad temper made him incautious. While his son and the other two jayhawkers obstinately pressed their scheme he kept saying, sourly, "That's not our wa-ay!"
'Anythin' at all, marm, we're nearly starvin', Anything to hel-l-lp the bummers on their wa-ay, We are three bums an' jolly good chums, An' we live like Royal Turks, An' with good luck we bum our chuck, An' it's a fool of a man wot works." Just as Sunny was about to begin the next verse Bill appeared in the doorway, and the vocalist was reduced to a pained silence by his harsh criticism.
piped Peace, staring at the waving plumes of lavender above her head. "'Sca-atter sunshine all along your wa-ay, Cheer and bless and bri-ighten " The song ceased in the midst of the chorus. The big blue eyes flashed open and the lame girl demanded in surprise. "Why did you stop?"
I've swone to heaven and hell to git even ef revenge can ever git me even, and this ain't the way to git even. It's not our wa-ay!" His son's attitude exasperated him. "You know this ain't ever been our way; you'd say so, yourself, ef you wa'n't skin full o' china-ball whiskey! What in all hell is the reason we can't do him as we've always done the others?"
I says, s'I, 'Wha'd John say? and when she said she hadn't so much as told you, 'cause you wa'n't well enough, we both of us, Mother Tombs and me, we says, s'I, 'Why, the sicker he is the mo' it'll help him! Besides, he's sho' to hear it; the ve'y wind'll carry it; which he oughtn't never to find it out in that hilta-skilta wa-ay!
No doubt ye have been referred to me for details iv the disturbin' rumours. Well, it's this wa-ay: I am in the service iv the comp'ny, and I dhraw me pay wid regularity, praise be, so that I w'u'd not for a moment think of questionin' the wisdom iv the policy iv me superiors " "That's right don't!" snapped Farwell. "Now, get me those telegrams, if there are any, and tell me what I want to know."
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