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In the present instance he took up half the dinner-hour with a description of his latest mishap. A neighbor's cook had suddenly gone mad, and had charged him with putting a spell over her. "Somebody calls me up on the 'phone this morning: 'Is this Frank Congdon?... 'Yes. ... 'Hello, Frank, this is Henry. What you been doing to my cook? ... 'What does she say I have? ... 'Says you've hypnotized her put a spell over her. ... 'I pass. ... 'Fact; she's crazy as a bed-bug, and we can't do a thing with her and she was such a good girl. How could you, Frank? ... 'I never saw the creature in my life. ... 'Well, you'll see her now. You're to come right over and remove this spell, or we won't have any breakfast." Here Congdon looked solemnly round at his guests. "Now wouldn't that convulse a body? I didn't know her name; on my word, I couldn't remember how she looked. But my curiosity was roused, and over I toddled. It was all true. Karen was in the kitchen, armed with the jig-saw bread-knife and calling for me. Henry was all for my appearing suddenly at the door
You know I am settling the estate. Keeler will be over there, they say, and I will talk with him. But on the way over, I shall look up a man worth two of John Keeler in a business like this." "Who is that?" asked the doctor. "Mr. William Brown." No one seemed to know William Brown. "He lives a mile up the cañon," continued Francis. "Oh, you mean Bed-bug Brown," said Mat Bailey.
Spirits of turpentine is good to take grease-spots out of woollen clothes; to take spots of paint, &c., from mahogany furniture; and to cleanse white kid gloves. Cockroaches, and all vermin, have an aversion to spirits of turpentine. An ounce of quicksilver, beat up with the white of two eggs, and put on with a feather, is the cleanest and surest bed-bug poison.
Jim leaped to his feet. "What do ye think of that? Bully for the old gal! Kinder slow at first. As the poet sings of the little bed-bug, she ain't got no wings but she gets there just the same!" He drew the electric torch from his pocket and advanced on Nance. "By Golly I'll have another look at you." Nance backed in terror at the sight of the revolver-like instrument. "What's that?" she gasped.
Was he, Keeler, on a fool's errand to San Francisco? Well, he had determined on his own account to do a little investigating in Nevada City that very day. So had Mat Bailey. Hence his unusual taciturnity. So had "Bed-bug Brown," and he kept the secret to himself.
Dunn three dollars and fifty cents, and with this money began the hotel business. The house was a rattle trap, plastering off, and a regular bed-bug nest. I fumigated, pasted the walls over with cloth and newspapers, where the plastering was off, and made curtains out of old sheets.
Get it into your pates that fifteen days from now you will be conquerors new clothes, good gaiters, famous shoes, and every man with a great-coat; but, my children, to get these things you must march to Milan, where they are. And we marched. France, crushed as flat as a bed-bug, straightened up. We were thirty thousand bare-feet against eighty thousand Austrian bullies, all fine men, well set-up.
"I'll be more than pleased to," replied Mat, determined to prove his philosophy that there are things far more precious than gold. Fascinated with the idea, he loitered in the neighborhood longer than he would otherwise have done; and, glancing back at the dear girl's house, he was astonished to see "Bed-bug Brown" emerge from the cellar. Brown saw him at about the same time.
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