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Hollenbeck at this moment began to find some fault with Benny's gloves, and leaning down, talked very obligingly and earnestly with him, while she fastened the gloves upon his hands. Mr. Langenau took the occasion, as it was intended he should take it, and said rather low, "You will not refuse to see me a few moments this evening, that I may explain something to you?"
"Their days," I afterward learned, were anniversaries which they had always kept, to which was added "Benny's day." Poor boy! When he realized that death was near his every thought was for the mother. Well, they followed his wishes, and the casket containing the bare, gnawed bones was sealed and never opened. And to this day poor Mrs.
There was no other way. "Poor boy," murmured Helen, as she thought of the slight figure resting in the white hospital bed. "Poor boy! I suppose they'll all forget him soon when they have a new act in place of his." But Joe Strong did not forget the promise which he had written on Benny's pad the promise which was under the pillow of the "human fish."
He strode on through the men until he stopped at one of the upper bunks, about the middle of the room, from which a worn, soiled red quilt trailed half-way to the floor. "This here was Benny's. It's yourn now." He had turned away, and, standing with his big hands resting upon his hips, was watching the cook.
What on it?" creaked a dreadful voice close behind them. Then, indeed, Fanny shrieked and tried to run, but Benny's hand held her fast. She hid her face against Benny's arm and sobbed. It was the old Witch her very self. She looked at them out of her glittering eyes O how she did look at them! with her head drooped until her chin rested on her chest.
For about two shakes I was up against it, and then the only place I could think of was Benny's house; so I give him that, and off we goes. "But I say, young man," says Brother Bill, "I came on to go to the wedding." "Sure," says I; "that'll be all right too. Didn't I tell you there was some word left for you?" "Yes," says he, "I believe you did. Also you said something about her waiting "
But I knowed he couldn't do that, becuz I could ketch him by one arm, and hold him off me 'n' Benny's practised it in the crick and I swum up to him; and he went down ag'in, and when he come up ag'in, his face was all soakin' wet like he'd been cryin' under the water, and he says, kind o' bubblin' like this," the boy made the sound.
We be all a-sailin', been't we?" said Aunt Electry, who was ninety years old, lighting her pipe; "only I wish 't some 't 's sailin' solitary had mates 't 's fit for 'em how is Vesty?" "I don't know," I began, afflicted with a sort of lightness of head. I wanted to take out Uncle Benny's pocket-mirror that I carried with me now. Was I beautiful, and tall, and fair? What had happened me!
She sought to hear their words, to read the looks on their faces. But she caught only a monotonous mutter, unintelligible but evil, and saw only the bottle passing from one to the other. Brodie finished it and hurled it from him so that it broke noisily. A few times she heard them laugh; she could distinguish Brodie's throaty, bull tone and Benny's nervous cackle.
The bathers were chattering and pulling themselves out of the water by the steps. Benny's eyes brightened as Edna's laugh sounded on his ear. "You did very wrong to come to-day, Benny," she called to him brightly, throwing her cloak about her and coming dripping up the steep steps. Benny grinned sheepishly. "Come to see if Miss Lacey wanted any clams to-morrer," he drawled.
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