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Updated: June 10, 2025
And you being under quarantine, and me being secretary to the board of health, and the city pest-house being crowded too full already, I'll have to ask you to keep him here till we get Miss Margery onto her feet again," he says. Or they was words to that effect, as the lawyers asts you. "Dear me," says Perfesser Booth, kind o' helpless like.
He lights his cigar like he didn't think much of that cigar and sticks it in his mouth and looks at us so long in an absent-minded kind of way it goes out. Then he says we orter go back North. "Why?" asts the doctor.
They was silence fur quite a little spell. Each prominent citizen had mebby had his hopes of unloading some. They all looks a little sad, and then another prominent citizen asts us into the back room agin.
A couple of 'em don't take no more interest in us, but goes along home sighing-like, as if it wasn't no difference WHAT we sold as long as it wasn't what they was looking fur. But purty soon one of them asts: "What KIND of medicine?" The doctor, he tells about it. When he finishes you never seen such a change as had come onto the faces of that bunch.
She finally makes up her mind it's a bran'-new one, an' sends fer Jud an' asts him what he knows about it. An' he cain't lie a little bit, so he up an' tells her that her pianner is all inter sawdust an' scrap-iron down on the rocks, an' that this is a new one that he owes a hundred an' fifty dollars on down ter Fresno. "Then she busts out a-laughin', an' says: "'Why, that old tin-pan!
"Fell out of his balloon?" "Yes." "This aeronaut trade is a dangerous trade, I hear," says the feller with the patch on his eye. "They say so," says Doctor Kirby, easy-like. "Was you ever an aeronaut yourself?" asts the feller. "No," says the doctor. "Never been up in a balloon?" "No." "Well, you're going up in one this afternoon!" "What do you mean?" asts Doctor Kirby.
And then I seen from the way Martha is answering my questions that she is holding back something she would like to tell, but don't think she orter tell. I leaves her alone and purty soon she says: "Do you believe in ghosts?" I tell her sometimes I think I don't believe in 'em, and sometimes I think I do, but anyhow I would hate to see one. I asts her why does she ast.
"'How about gittin' the meals? asts Hemenway. "'Wal, I'd set up, then, an' practise all night, says she. "'I'm afeard that 'u'd be pretty hard on yer paw, says Mr. Sneath, smilin'. 'Wal, Jud, we got ter be goin'. "So they gits inter their dude boat, an' Jess she skips along after 'em, an' jest as they's about to ontie she yells out to the soop'rintendent: "'Cain't I have it? Cain't I have it?
He breaks off and don't say what he was. I asts him. "I was going to say a gentleman," he says, "but on reflection, I doubt if I was ever anything but a cheap imitation. I never heard a man say that he was a gentleman at one time, that I didn't doubt him.
I hearn the window shut and purty soon the front door opened. "Come up here," he says. I come. "Who rode that hoss yo' been talking about?" he asts. "One of the SILENT BRIGADE," I tells him, as Bud had told me to say. I give him the grip Bud had showed me with his good hand. "Come on in," he says. He shut the door behind us and lighted a lamp agin. And we looked each other over.
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