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He wore white socks with low shoes. When he tired of this amusement he would go to the mummies and moralize over them. Usually he submitted with silent dignity to all which he had to go through, but, at times, he was goaded into comment. "What deh hell," he demanded once. "Look at all dese little jugs! Hundred jugs in a row! Ten rows in a case an' 'bout a t'ousand cases!
It occurred to him to vaguely wonder, for an instant, if some of the women of his acquaintance had brothers. Suddenly, however, he began to swear. "But he was me frien'! I brought 'im here! Dat's deh hell of it!" He fumed about the room, his anger gradually rising to the furious pitch. "I'll kill deh jay! Dat's what I'll do! I'll kill deh jay!" He clutched his hat and sprang toward the door.
With grim humor, the mother imitated the possible wailing notes of the daughter's voice. "Den I'll take 'er in, won't I, deh beast. She kin cry 'er two eyes out on deh stones of deh street before I'll dirty deh place wid her. She abused an' ill-treated her own mudder her own mudder what loved her an' she'll never git anodder chance dis side of hell."
An' him, I could see by deh way what he said it dat she had been askin' orften, he says: 'Oh, hell, yes, he says, says he, 'Oh, hell, yes." Storm-clouds swept over Jimmie's face, but he turned from the leathery old woman and plodded on up-stairs. "Oh, hell, yes," called she after him. She laughed a laugh that was like a prophetic croak. "'Oh, hell, yes, he says, says he, 'Oh, hell, yes."
He despatched an aide-de-camp in quest of Macpherson, with an order directing that officer to wheel to his left into the Chardeh valley and hurry to Massy's assistance; and he ordered General Hills to gallop to Sherpur and warn General Hugh Gough, who had charge in the cantonment, to be on the alert, and also to send out at speed a wing of the 72d to the village of Deh Mazung, in the throat of the gorge of the Cabul river, which the Highlanders were to hold to extremity.
Deh Namek is too small and unimportant a place to support a public tchai-khan; but along the Meshed pilgrim road the villagers are keenly alive to the chance of earning a stray keran, and the advent of one of those inexhaustible keran-mines, a "Sahib," is the signal for some enterprising person, sufficiently well-to-do to own a samovar, to get up steam in it and prepare tea.
The fact that the neighbors talked of it, maddened her. When women came in, and in the course of their conversation casually asked, "Where's Maggie dese days?" the mother shook her fuzzy head at them and appalled them with curses. Cunning hints inviting confidence she rebuffed with violence. "An' wid all deh bringin' up she had, how could she?" moaningly she asked of her son.
"Ah, come off," said Pete to the two men. "Don't pick me up for no jay. Drink yer rum an' git out an' don' make no trouble." "Oh, deh hell," airily cried Jimmie. "Oh, deh hell," airily repeated his companion. "We goes when we git ready! See!" continued Jimmie. "Well," said Pete in a threatening voice, "don' make no trouble." Jimmie suddenly leaned forward with his head on one side.
"Git outa deh way," she persistently bawled, waving feet with their dishevelled shoes near the heads of her children. She shrouded herself, puffing and snorting, in a cloud of steam at the stove, and eventually extracted a frying-pan full of potatoes that hissed. She flourished it. "Come teh yer suppers, now," she cried with sudden exasperation. "Hurry up, now, er I'll help yeh!"
"What deh hell's wrong?" he demanded. "Come out, all of yehs, come out," his mother was howling. "Come ahn an' I'll stamp her damn brains under me feet." "Shet yer face, an' come home, yeh damned old fool," roared Jimmie at her. She strided up to him and twirled her fingers in his face. Her eyes were darting flames of unreasoning rage and her frame trembled with eagerness for a fight.
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