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Nor none o' them vile stuffs which brewers makes as arterwards goes to Parl'ment on the profits of 'avin' poisoned their constitooants. 'Tis nowt but just yerb wine." "Yerb wine? Wine made of herbs?" "That's it! 'Erbs or yerbs I aint pertikler which I sez both. This," and he shook the bottle he held vigorously "is genuine yerb wine an' made as I makes it, what do the Wise One say of it?
Rufe's conscience had given him a recess, during which he had consumed several horse-apples in considerable complacence and a total disregard of "yerb tea." He had climbed a tree, and sampled a green persimmon, and he endured with fortitude the pucker in his mouth, since it enabled him to make such faces at Towse as caused the dog to snap and growl in a frenzy of surprised indignation.
"You are very good to me," he said, as he returned the remainder of the "yerb wine" to its owner. "I wonder why?" Peke took a draught of his mixture before replying. Then corking the bottle, he thrust it in his pocket. "Ye wonders why?" And he uttered a sound between a grunt and a chuckle "Ye may do that! I wonders myself!"
"Thus my father dreamed of it.... But you will pardon us, Don Adrian, for you have other things in mind than Yerb than San Francisco's future. See, my little one! Even now she comes to bid you welcome." Inez as she joined them gave her hand to Stanley. "Ah, Don Adrian, your color is high" her tone was bantering, mock-anxious. "You have not, perchance, a touch of fever?" He eyed her hungrily.
Roxby compounded and administered a "yerb tea," a sovereign remedy against colds, which he tasted on compulsion and in great doubt, and swallowed with alacrity and confidence, finding its basis the easily recognizable "toddy."
"Ah, dat is a great yerb, mass'; dat is a scace plant a berry scace plant. Eat some ob dat no snake bite you, as you jes seed. Dat is de plant ob de snake-charmer." The botanical knowledge of my sable companion went no farther.
"Take care o' the old gaffer I brought along wi' me," had been his parting recommendation to the hostess of the "Trusty Man." "Tell 'im I've left a bottle o' yerb wine in the bar for 'im. M'appen ye might find an odd job or two about th' 'ouse an' garden for 'im, just for lettin' 'im rest a while." Miss Tranter had nodded curtly in response to this suggestion, but had promised nothing.
The herb-gatherer looked for a moment at the thin, refined white hand extended to him before grasping it in his own horny palm. Then "Good-night, old chap!" he responded heartily. "Ef I don't see ye i' the mornin' I'll leave ye a bottle o' yerb wine to take along wi' ye trampin', for the more ye drinks o't the soberer ye'll be an' the better ye'll like it.
An old frying-pan and a small stew kettle joined the supplies; also a little package of "yerb" medicine prepared by Aunt Becky as a specific for fevers. Lee walked through the silent, pre-dawn darkness to the stable and saddled her pony, blanketing and cinching as deftly as her father could have done it. With her she carried an extra blanket for the wounded man.
But Don Roberto laughed. "You are the second to declare allegiance to the Stars and Stripes." He took Benito's hand. "My son's discovered he's American, Don Adrian." Presently Benito spoke again. "That is not all, my father. There is soon to be a meeting for relief of immigrants lost in the Sierra Nevada snows. James Reed will organize an expedition from Yerb from San Francisco. And I wish to go.
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