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Updated: May 3, 2025
And I remembered the way my Dunkie had lifted up my chin and kissed me. But that seemed a long, long time ago. And I wasn't in tune with the Infinite. And I felt lonely and old and neglected, with callouses on my hands and the cords showing in my neck, and my nerves not exactly what they ought to be. For Sunday, which is reckoned as a day of rest, had been a long and busy day for me.
Another thing mentioned by Dunkie, which has stuck in my memory, was his running across a papoose's grave in an Indian burying-ground at Pincer Creek, when he was surveying, where the Indian baby had been buried above-ground, of course in an old Saratoga trunk.
For last night, after the usual demonstration, I slipped out to the Blue Room and found big Dunkie kneeling down beside little Dinkie's bed, with Dinkie's small hand softly enclosed in his dad's big paw, and Dinkie's yellow head nestled close against his dad's salt-and-peppery pate. It made me gulp a little, for some reason or other.
When I tried to express something like this to Dunkie last night, somewhat apologetically, he looked at me with an odd light in his somber old Scotch Canadian eye. "Wait until you see him really ill," he remarked, man-like, stubbornly intent on justifying himself.
That, I remembered, was to have been some sort of a shipyard. Then I remembered something else. "When the Twins were born," I reminded Dunkie, "you put the ranch here at Casa Grande in my name. Does that mean we lose our home?" I was able to speak quietly, but I could hear the thud of my own heart-beats. "That's for you to decide," he none too happily acknowledged.
It gave me a squeezy feeling about the heart to see him looking so much like an unkempt and overworked and altogether neglected husband. And there I'd been lying in the lap of luxury, with quick-footed ladies in uniform to answer my bell and fly at my bidding. "But I've a right, Dunkie, to know your worries, and stand my share of 'em," I promptly told him.
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