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Updated: June 23, 2025
Shoop, excusing himself with humorous politeness, punched the pillows together and lay back on the bed which creaked and rustled beneath his weight. "These here corn-husk mattresses is apologizin'," he said, twisting around and leaning on his elbow. "Well, Jack," said the smiling sheriff, "shoot the piece." "Or the justice of the peace don't matter," murmured Shoop.
Honest, he was almost on the point of apologizin' to Vincent when there comes this knock on the private office door and I'm signalled to see who it is. I finds one of the youths from the filin' room who's subbin' in on the gate for Vincent. He grins and whispers the message and I tells-him to stay there a minute. "It's a lady to see you, Mr. Ellins," says I. "Mrs. Jerome St Claire."
"'Come on into the parlor and see the pictures, Archie, says I. "'I won't, says Archibald. 'I'm goin' to stay here and see the fat man make faces. "'You see, says Sim, apologizin' 'we can't touch him, 'cause we promised his ma not to interfere. And my right hand's got cramps in the palm of it this minute, he adds, glarin' at the young one. "Father McGrath stood up and reached for his hat.
"Believe me they was a grand pair seal brown, sixteen hands 'n' haired like babies. They fans their noses with their knees, when get's the word, 'n' after I sits behind 'em 'n' watches their hock-action fur a while I feels like apologizin' to 'em fur makin' 'em haul a bum like me. "These dolls go East, says the guy I works fur. 'They don't pull no pig-sticker in this burg.
Leavitt," she breaks in, "will you be careful of them pies?" Then she turns to me apologizin'. "Course, it does seem sort of silly, travelin' around New York with two pumpkin pies; but I didn't know how good a cook the folks had here; and besides I don't take a back seat for anybody when it comes to mince or pumpkin.
Sez he faintly, "The Old Testament may teach that women have some strength and power. But in the New Testament in every great undertaken' and plan men have been chosen by God to carry them through." "Why-ee!" sez I, "how you talk! Have you ever read the Bible?" He said evasively, his grandmother owned one, and he had seen it in early youth. And then he went on in a sort of apologizin' way.
Hereupon the man Dutton, all perspiring apology, as usual, shuffled forward, and, mopping his reeking brow, delivered himself in this wise: "W'ich I must say meanin' no offence to nobody, an' if so be, apologizin' w'ich I must say me 'avin' seen 'em they was leastways," he added, as he met the Ancient's piercing eye, "leastways they might 'ave been, w'ich if they ain't no matter!"
He begged my pardon for the waiter's stupidness, said he was a new hand, and the like of that, and went on apologizin' and bowin' and smilin' till I almost had a fit. "'For mercy sakes! I says, 'don't say any more about it. If that last egg hadn't been boiled 'twould have hatched out an an ostrich, or somethin' or other, by this time. And it's stone cold, of course.
"You couldn't be anybody but Bransford, or you wouldn't shoot off your gab that reckless. If you're Bransford, I'm apologizin' to you for talkin' back to you. But if you ain't Bransford, get off your hind legs an' talk like a man!" The big man stiffened, and his eyes glittered malignantly. He moved his feet slightly apart and let his body fall into a crouch.
"Stand aside," he said curtly. "Oh, ho! ye will lave widout properly apologizin' for yer outrageous conduc' will ye? 'Tis an ambulance that ye'll nade to take ye home whin I've taught ye manners, ye danged yellow-legged cock-a-doodle!"
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