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After one glance around the group she picks out Old Hickory, makes straight for him, and grabs one of his big paws in both hands. "Mr. Ellins, is it not?" says she. "Please forgive my coming in like this, but I did want to tell you how grateful I am for all that you have done for dear Vincent and me. It was so generous and kind of you?" "Ye-e-es?" says Old Hickory, sort of draggy and encouragin'.
"Then let's forget it," says I. "Forget!" says he, smilin' mushy. "Never!" At lunch time he asks me which of the Fifth Avenue photographers I think is the best. "Eh?" says I, grinnin'. "Thinkin' of havin' yourself mugged and sendin' the result to somebody in a silver frame?" "Well," says he draggy, "I I've been meaning to have some pictures taken for several years, and now "
"Ye-e-es, sir," says I, sort of draggy. He glances up at me quick. "You're not enthusiastic about it, eh?" says he. "No," says I. "Then for your satisfaction, and somewhat for my own," he goes on, "we will review the case against this young man. He was one of three who won a D minus rating in the report made by that efficiency expert called in by Mr. Piddie last fall."
I just think of the things I should like to have done for me, and well, I do them for him. It's rather interesting, you know." I expect I gawped some myself, hearing that from him. From Ham Adams, mind you! "Ye-e-e-es; must be," says I, sort of draggy. Then I shifts the subject. "How's Mr. Nivens gettin' along?" says I. "Ain't married yet, eh?"
Garvey and me?" he demands. "Why why Who says there's anything the matter with either of you?" I asks, draggy. "They don't have to say it," says he. "They act it. Everybody in this blessed town; that is, all except the storekeepers, the plumbers, the milkman, and so on. My money seems to be good enough for them. But as for the others well, you know how we've been frozen out.
"Yes, I expect there was no dodgin' it," I agrees. At dinner Auntie is still sort of jumpy but she says it's a great satisfaction to know that she is out here in the calm, peaceful country. "It's dull, of course," she goes on, "but at the same time it is all so restful and soothing. One knows that nothing whatever is going to happen." "Ye-e-es," says I, draggy. "And yet, you can't always tell."
"You you ?" But I was thinkin' too rapid to talk much. Vee and Aunty was out on that boat, and maybe at the next landin' Aunty would mail them transfers. If it was goin' to hit her alone, I might have stood it calmer; but there was Vee. "Say," I sputters out, "ain't there room for two?" "Why, ye-e-e-es," says he sort of draggy. "I've never taken up a passenger, though; but I've thought that "
In the meantime her new occupation was working out wonderfully as an excuse for not going about in the evenings. She was so dead tired every night. No need to feign fatigue, it was real. She even had to call in her physician, in the first "draggy" days of Spring; and he warned her that she was doing too much, it was too soon after the birth of her child.
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