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He leaned over the railing as he said it, and the boy, regarding Scattergood's face a moment, arose and whisked into the next room. Shortly there appeared a youngish man, constructed by nature to adorn wearing apparel. "Be you Mr. Castle?" asked Scattergood. "I'm his secretary. What do you want?" "Young man, I'm disapp'inted.
He's been wantin' of you all day, and he'd have been that dreadful disapp'inted if you 'adn't come. Always awful particular about his clothes, you know, so mind you're jolly careful about the measuring 'cause this overcoat will have to last him a long time." Taking his cue from these words Noy, still ignorant of the truth, made answer: "Iss, I'll measure en all right. Wheer is he to?"
Disapp'inted I be yes." And having nodded his head ponderously several times, he turned and went ponderously along the passage and down the stair. At the end of my chamber was a long, low casement, and, drawn thither by the beauty of the night, I flung open the lattice and leaned out.
"The Lord's too reasonable to expect more of you'n to do your duty in the place where's He's put you," said the wife gently. "I hope he is, Mother! Ef he looked for more or for any big thing 's fur as that goes, the chances are He'd be disapp'inted.
It ended laconically: "An' maybe you'd better go an' do likewise." The dim starlight was shining faintly through the cracks of the outlaw's future home when the old man showed him in. "Now, Jack," he said, "it's nearly mornin' an' the old woman may be wild an' raise sand. But learn to lay low an' shoe hosses. She was bohn disapp'inted maybe because she wa'n't a boy," he whispered.
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