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"I shan't sleep a wink," declared Cai, still pacing. "How on earth Benny " He halted of a sudden. "You don't suppose Benny himself " "Ch't! a man of his age. . . . No, I'll tell you how it happened, as I allow: and, if so, Benny's not altogether to blame. First you goes to him, and wants a letter written.
She was ashamed to go out any more except by night, sulking all day indoors, instead, and rocking in a hammock. As I said before, she'd never been right since Benny's death, and though she had pulled up for a time and acted very much improved she slumped at last, and slumped worse than she ever had been.
"All right, Joe," said the ring-master, when it was certain Benny could not finish his act. "You'd better get ready to go into the tank. Can you wear Benny's suit?" "I guess so, but it will be a pretty tight fit. It's wet, too, and it isn't going to be easy to get into it." The green, scaly, fish suit had been taken off Benny before he was put into the ambulance.
"Never, that he should know me! never that! but for Benny's sake." If Benny could have brought her to him, saying, "See, this is Charley, my Charley!" But Adam knew her by another name, Devil Lot. While she stood there, looking in at the window, the snow drifting on her head in the night, two passers-by halted an instant. "Oh, father, look!" It was a young girl spoke. "Let me speak to that woman."
I says to myself, poor old Uncle Silas has been lying about it because he reckoned nobody seen him and he couldn't bear to break Aunt Sally's heart and Benny's; and right he was: as for me, I would 'a' lied the same way, and so would anybody that had any feeling, to save them such misery and sorrow which THEY warn't no ways responsible for.
She's always tryin' ter make people think things don't matter. You'll see!" crowed Benny. A moment later he had turned down his own street, and Mr. Smith was left to go on alone. Very often, in the days that followed, Mr. Smith thought of this speech of Benny's.
So, when the men left, a few days later, I took Jerrine and rode over to the Louderer ranch. I had never seen Mrs. Louderer and it happened to be "Benny's day" that I blundered in upon. I found her to be a dear old German woman living all alone, the people who do the work on the ranch living in another house two miles away.
Course, it was a fresh play for me to make; but I'll stand for it, and if Benny's feelin's was hurt, or yours was, you got an elegant show to take it out on me. Come on! Get out the can and the string!" But you can't hustle Mr. Robert along that way. When he gets his programme laid out there ain't any use to try any broad jumps.
He ordered the glass and metal holding clips, with the water-tight rubber gaskets, from the same firm in New York that had originally made Benny's tank. They still had the patterns, and knew just the proper size and kind of glass to send, and Joe had no difficulty in malting his tank a double one. The experiment was tried in private one afternoon just before the performance.
I didn't have no chance to come back till along sundown, but, my stars I even in that time there had been a change. Benny's mother had been getting in her deadly work, and the orderlies were bursting mad, not that any of them dared say anything outright or show it except in their faces, which were that long; for, you see, the contract surgeon had taken her side, and had backed her up.
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