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Really you can't and I don't want to spoil your evening. "We're going to wait for the Doc, Eve," said Jim, firmly. Her eagerness to be rid of them was painfully evident, and so unlike her. "Yes," agreed Peter, "we better wait for the Doc, Eve. You see we came down to pay you a party call." "A party call?" "Yes. Y'see Jim rode in from the 'AZ's' to pay you a party call."
They're cur'us things if they ain't treat right, an' I guess my ma hadn't got the knack o' pullin' them bolts right. Y'see she'd been trained hoein' kebbeges on a farm in her early years, an' I guess ther' ain't nothin' more calc'lated to fix a woman queer fer the doin's o' perlite sassiety than hoein' kebbeges. Guess I'll get right on."
Minky had joined in Sunny's grin at the other men's expense. Sandy, too, now that he was accepted as an active member of the trust, was indulging in a superior smile. "I don't allow I have," Bill said slowly. "Y'see, you ain't much else than a 'remittance' man, an' they ain't no sort o' trash anyway." "But," protested Toby, "I can't help it if my folks hand me money?" "Mebbe you can't."
Say, John, you best let me hand this story on. Y'see my calling makes it more in my line. A doctor's not always healing. There's times when he's got to open up wounds. But he knows how to open 'em." "Not on your life, Bill!" Kars' denial came on the instant. "I'm not shirking a thing. I just love that child to death. It's up to me.
"That sure don't sound too bad," he declared. "But wot about 'em gettin' cold? Takin' all that dirt off sudden, y'see " "He's dosed 'em wi' cough cure," broke in Toby. "Sure," agreed Sunny. "I'd fergot Say" he turned to the doorway and craned towards it "here's here's Wild Bill coming along." Toby promptly scrambled up from the door-sill and made way for the Trust president.
If you'd thought a bit longer, you might have hit upon the true an' very commonplace explanation. Y'see, the stones haven't even been in the lake long enough to get a growth of weeds and moss on 'em. As a matter of fact, they've been there only a very few winters since the time when the name 'Kiddie' was more appropriate to me than it is now. There was a big frost; the lake was frozen over.
I was tellin' 'em ef the folks had the sense of a blind louse they'd dope out a reward, an' make it big. I guessed they'd get the gang quick that way. Y'see, it don't matter who it is, folks is all after dollars if there's only enough of 'em. Life's jest made up of two sorts o' guys, the fellers with dollars an' them without. Wal, I guess it's a sort o' play goes right on all the time.
Them's the gold. An' Jamie's playin' 'bad man' an' swoopin' down on her and sneakin' her worms. It's a new game. Y'see, I thought it out and taught 'em how to play it. They're a heap struck on it, too. But words somehow failed him under the baleful stare of the other's eyes. And turning back to the milk he fell into a stupid silence.
"Dare say," nodded Kiddie. "Y'see it was at least twelve hours afterwards, and say, now, don't you reckon twelve hours a precious long time for a man to lie insensible after only one dose of chloroform?" "Dunno," said the sheriff, "I'm ignorant of the effects an' uses of them outlandish drugs."
What I mean," he explained, seeing the amused wonder in the girl's now wide eyes, "you kind o' need eddicatin' to git married. Y'see, when you get fixed that way you sort of, in a manner of speakin', got to unlearn things you never learnt, an' learn them things what can't never be taught.
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