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Updated: May 23, 2025
I sent the wire, in the secret hope that it would bring my lord and master on the run. But it was eight days later, when I was up on a back-rest and having my hair braided, that Dinky-Dunk put in an appearance. And when he did come he chilled me. I can't just say why.
Still heavy with sleep and also somewhat light-headed for he had been traveling for two days and the strain was beginning to tell on him, although the doctors had at last pronounced him able to make the journey home for a month's furlough he leaned his head against the cool green plush back-rest and stared idly through half-closed eyelids down the long vista of the Pullman aisle.
Then I returned to bed and propped the pillows up for a back-rest, ready to quarrel with him if it might bring some little pleasure into his morbid existence. "No," he said, amiably, "I'm too worried to quarrel, but I'm much obliged for your kindly offer. I want to tell you something." "What?" I asked, suspiciously. "I want to ask you if you ever saw a man with gills like a fish?" "Gills?"
"No, I sat up," he finally confessed. "Why?" I demanded. And still again his eye tried to evade mine. "We're a bit short of ready cash." He tried to say it indifferently, but the effort was a failure. "Then why didn't you tell me that before?" I asked, sitting up and spurning the back-rest. "You had worries enough of your own," proclaimed my weary-eyed lord and master.
This last was the old hunter's invention and 'twas most ingenious. The forked limb, in shape like a Y, was set astride the cantle, with the lower ends thonged stoutly to Dick's legs and to the girths. Thus the upright stem of the inverted Y became an easy back-rest for the sick man; and when he was securely lashed thereto there was little danger for him save in some stumbling of the beast he rode.
Lucas lost his head and lost his temper, and in doing so lost all control of his charge; and at last things were brought to a climax in the manner we are about to describe. At the back of the room was one of those short desks which can be changed at will into a seat, the top part falling over and making a back-rest, while the form remains stationary.
"It didn't sound like him," ventured a policeman, close to where the driver sat behind his wooden back-rest. "I say, Mike!" called the policeman, "did you sneeze?" "Nope! Haven't time for sneezes now," answered the chauffeur. "Then it was back here in this automobile," went on the first policeman, who was quite fat. "Maybe it was a cat," suggested some one. "Or a dog," added another.
Shivering and with teeth chattering, he would raise himself up on his elbow, only to see that the wood was again burnt through and that the fire was going out. At last he determined to give up the attempt to sleep. Pulling a box near the stove and using it as a back-rest, he gathered his blankets tightly round him and lit his pipe.
Getting the bag well within the sights, I held it there until it just filled the circle. Then I pushed the button. Although it was only eight o'clock, both Drew and I were in bed; for we were both very tired, it was a chilly evening, and we had no fire. An oil lamp was on the table between the two cots. Drew was sitting propped up, his fur coat rolled into a bundle for a back-rest.
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