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I hope he gets that chance pretty soon, because well, there's a rumor goin' round that Loveland is plannin' to swap his car for a bigger and faster one. If he does . . ." "If he does," interrupted Captain Sol, "I hope you'll fix the next race for over here. I'd like to see you go by, Barzilla." "Guess you'd have to look quick to see him," laughed Stitt. "Speakin' about automobiles "
"Well," he replied, "we've got somebody in view that would like to try and fill it. Barzilla Small was in to see me yesterday afternoon and he's sartin that his boy Luther Lute, everybody calls him is just the one for the place. He's been to work up in Fall River in a bank, so Barzilla says; that would mean he must have had some experience.
"But I might as well have hollered at a stone wall. 'I don't care if he's as fur gone in liquor as Belshazzer's goat, sputters the Cap'n, all worked up. 'He's takin' us to a Kelly, ain't he? And is it likely there'd be another one within three doors of the number I dreamed about? Didn't I tell you that dream was a vision sent? Don't lay to NOW, Barzilla, for the land sakes!
But 'twan't about that I was thinkin'. Sam, how is Barzilla Small's boy, Lute, gettin' along in Gus Howes' job at the bank?" Captain Sam snorted disgust. "Gettin' along!" he repeated. "He's gettin' along the way a squid swims, and that's backwards. And, if you asked me, I'd say the longer he stayed the further back he'd get." "Sho! then he did turn out to be a leak instead of an able seaman, eh?"
"Why, it begun at the Golconda House, the hotel where Sim and I was stayin'. We " "Did YOU put up at the Golconda?" interrupted Barzilla. "Why, Cap'n Jonadab and me stayed there when we went to New York." "I know you did. Jonadab recommended it to Sim, and Sim took the recommendation. That Golconda House is the only grudge I've got against Jonadab Wixon. It sartin is a tough old tavern."
He'd forgot us altogether which was a mercy the way I looked at it, and I steered the Cap'n over into a corner and we come to anchor on a couple of rickety chairs. "'What why what kind of a place IS this, Barzilla? whispers Jonadab, scared. "'Sh-h-h! says I. 'Land knows. Just set quiet and hang on to your watch. "'But but I want to find Kelly, says he.
They're dangerous, hey, Sol?" The depot master did not answer. Captain Hiram asked another question. "How'd Jonadab take Hettie's leavin'?" he inquired. "Oh," said Barzilla, "I don't think he minded so much. He was too crazy about his new auto to care for anything else. Then, too, he was b'ilin' mad 'cause Loveland swore out a warrant against him for speedin'. "'Nice trick, ain't it? he says.
I didn't expect quite so much of a run, but I'm satisfied. Don't you worry about my heart disease. That twenty-five hundred cured it. 'Twas all in the way of business, says Henry G. Bradbury." "Whew!" whistled Captain Hiram as Barzilla reached into his pocket for pipe and tobacco. "Whew! I should say your partner had a narrer escape. Want to look out sharp for widders.
"He's gone to Come-Outers' meetin', I guess. There's one up to Barzilla Small's to-night." Mr. Barzilla Small lived in that part of the village called "down to the neck," and when the Captain arrived there, he found the parlor filled with the devout, who were somewhat surprised to see him. "Why, how do you do?" said Mrs. Small, resplendent in black "alpaca" and wearing her jet earrings.
It sailed up and up in a long curve, began to drop, passed over the piazza roof, and out of sight. "'Lock your door, Miss Sterzer, sung out Fred Bearse 'Willie' for short. 'Lock your door and keep that ball. I think your father's paper is inside it. "As sure as my name is Barzilla Wingate, he had kicked that football straight through the open window into old Gabe's room."
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