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That night the half- consumed fragment of John Jenkins's cigar set fire to his work-shop and burned it up. together with all his tools and materials. There was no insurance. "Then you still persist in marrying John Jenkins?" queried Judge Boompointer, as he playfully, with paternal familiarity, lifted the golden curls of the village belle, Mary Jones.
It ain't necessary for you to produce the ring, so if that old biled owl of a Boompointer don't giv' it back to ye, it's all the same." "And they say nobody but the finder need apply," interrupted another. "That shuts out Boompointer or Kanaka Joe, for the matter o' that." "It's clar that it MEANS you, Cass, ez much ez if they'd given your name," added a third.
Becoming more reminiscent over his second drink, the colonel could vaguely recall only one Boompointer a blank skulking hound, sir a mean white shyster but, of course, he couldn't have been of the same breed as such a blank fine woman as the widow!
And the allusion to Senator Boompointer, monstrous as it seemed in Hooker's mouth, gave him a grim temptation. He had heard of Boompointer's wonderful power; he believed that Susy would and could help him Clarence whether she did or did not help Hooker. But the next moment he dismissed the idea, with a flushing cheek. How low had he already sunk, even to think of it!
On such an occasion she really might have been more impressive. When her father came home that night she asked him the news. No, they had NOT captured the second horse-thief, who was still at large. Judge Boompointer talked of invoking the aid of the despised law. It remained, then, to see whether the horse-thief was fool enough to try to get rid of the animal.
A fashionably-dressed, pretty woman, who, in style, bearing, opulent contentment, and ingenuous self-consciousness, was in perfect keeping with the slight ostentation of the equipage, was its only occupant. As Boompointer stepped into the vehicle, her blue eyes fell for an instant on Brant.
And Judge Boompointer, gazing upon the affecting spectacle, burst into tears. From that day John Jenkins was an altered man.
"I will," repeated her husband; "and I'LL give up smoking, too." "'Tis well, John Jenkins!" said Judge Boompointer, appearing suddenly from behind the door, where he had been concealed during this interview. "Nobly said! my man. Cheer up! I will see that the children are decently buried." The husband and wife fell into each other's arms.
Alas! the eyes of two of that wedding party saw the fatal act. Judge Boompointer shook his head sternly. Mary Jones sighed and breathed a silent prayer. Her husband chewed! "What! more bread?" said John Jenkins, gruffly. "You're always asking for money for bread. D nation!
And blushing at her own eloquence, the young girl hid her curls on the Judge's arm. "Poor thing!" muttered Judge Boompointer. "Dare I tell her all? Yet I must." "I shall cling to him," continued the young girl, rising with her theme, "as the young vine clings to some hoary ruin. Nay, nay, chide me not, Judge Boompointer. I will marry John Jenkins!" The Judge was evidently affected.
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