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"The better way is to never do anythin' that calls for an apology. Can't say that I live up to it, but I do my darnedest and angels can do no more. After the first half hour I knew you wouldn't show up, so I went down and had lunch. More'n you've had, I'll bet. Just glance over that article and see what you think of it." "I thought you were broke." "Oh, they can't keep a good man down.
Kelley did not answer that question. Instead he took a telegram from his pocket. "Read it, Labe," he whispered. "Read it. It's the darndest news the the darnedest good news ever you heard in your life. It don't seem as if it could he, but, by time, I guess 'tis. Anyhow, it's from the Red Cross folks and they'd ought to know." Laban stared at the telegram.
Standing spread out his hands deprecatingly. "You see, we did things in a hurry, Bat. There was always Hellbeam. And my Nancy understood that. I wonder " Bat smoked on thoughtfully, and presently the other roused himself from the pre-occupation into which he had fallen. "Does that satisfy?" he demanded. Bat nodded. "I'll do the darnedest I know, Les," he said in his sturdy fashion.
I stopped to pick up a stone to throw at a dog inside the fence, and when I walked along behind dad, and got a rear view of his silk hat, it seemed as though I would sink through the asphalt pavement, for he had on an old silk hat that he wore before the war, the darnedest looking hat I ever saw, the brim curled like a minstrel show hat, the fur rubbed off in some places, and he looked like one of these actors that you see pictures of walking on the railroad track, when the show busts up at the last town.
I'd smother in here. Had the darnedest time coming on that ever was hotels. Little white rooms with the walls coming in on you. Worse than rattlesnakes for keeping a man awake. Reminds me of the hospital. Horse fell on me once and smashed me up so that I had to be sent to get puttied up again, and I never struck such a month as that since I was born.
Guess my nerve went; and then brutes is as quick as fleas to jump if they feel you don't know where you are for once. That shop is shut for yours truly, so I'm doin' my darnedest to get another. If Peter Rolls can use me, he can have me dirt cheap. I want to feed my face again. It needs it!"
Well, they were just getting a fire around pa, and he was giving the grand hailing sign of distress, when the performers, headed by the fat woman, whose peeled Mexican dog was lost in the shuffle, came in amongst the cannibals, and pa and the other dogs were rescued, in the darnedest fight I ever saw.
The tears went down her cheeks, as, with never a word, she nodded, and turned towards the tent. "Say," he hobbled after her, "that doctor's all right only wanted fifty." He laid four hundred-dollar bills in her hand. She seemed about to speak, when he interrupted hoarsely, "And look here: pull the Colonel through, Maudie pull him through!" "I'll do my darnedest." He held out his hand.
'Try me for a day and see, said I. 'I will do my darnedest." None of the Ingleside folks spoke for just a moment. Their silence meant that they thought Susan's pluck in "working out" quite wonderful. But Susan mistook their meaning and her sun-burned face grew red. "This habit of swearing seems to be growing on me, Mrs. Dr. dear," she said apologetically.
"After that I shan't dare say a word to Kalliope even if she steals the last hairpin I own." "Tell that high priest," said Donovan, "that I admire his loyalty. He may trot out the young woman. You must have a maid of some sort, Daisy, and I expect Kalliope will do her darnedest with that threat hanging over her." Stephanos the elder was an old gentleman of quick apprehension.
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