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Updated: June 4, 2025
In the railroad yards Dick Cronk hunted out his brother Ernie, and, standing over him in a manner so threatening that the astonished hunchback shrank down in fear, he bluntly accused him of informing on David Jenison. "I know you did it, Ernie," he said, when the other began to whimper his denials. "You've done a lot of sneakin' things, but this is the sneakin'est.
I couldn't quite believe it was meant for either of us until I'd scouted around to see if there wasn't someone else in line. No, there wasn't. And as Ernie is nearest, course I knows it's for him. "Ah, ha!" says I. "Who's your friend with the golden tresses?" That's what they were, all right. You don't see hair like that every day, and it ain't the shade which can be produced at a beauty parlor.
By some vicarious process, best understood by lovers, I lavished on little Ernie a thousand terms of endearment, meant only for another, and by the light of my own happiness he seemed transfigured. He was identified with the lifting away of a burden more bitter than captivity itself.
It seems that he's responsible for the deformity. When Ernie was five years old, Dick, who 'ad a wery disagreeable temper in them days, kicked the little cuss downstairs. The kid was laid up for months and he came out of it all twisted up just as you see 'im now. Well, Dick never got mad at anybody after that.
Joey, however, urged David to contribute something toward engaging the services of a clever lawyer who at least might save him from the gallows. He stated that Ernie, after stubbornly maintaining his own innocence, refused to pay out money for an attorney, preferring to let the state provide counsel for him, under the law. There was no mention of Braddock in either letter, for obvious reasons.
David turned. Not twenty feet away stood Colonel Grand, twirling a light walking-stick and surveying the throng with disinterested eyes. He had seen and ignored Ernie, but had failed to recognize the young man whose back was toward him. David experienced a sickening sense of disappointment. His heart sank like lead. Grand's presence in the station could have but one meaning.
"The surprise will be all the more pleasant; and, of course, every thing will be explained to the satisfaction of friends when you appear publicly as the wife of Luke Gregory 'long secretly married! You see, it will be necessary to go back a little to save appearances, on account of Ernie!" The miscreant!
"Yes, we've admitted all that," says I. "But who the blazes is she?" Ernie rumples his hair thoughtful and then shakes his head. "But during all that time didn't she say anything about herself, or give you any hint?" I goes on. Ernie can't remember that she did. "What was all the chat about?" I demands. "Oh, everything," says Ernie. "She she said she'd been looking for me long timesh.
The consciousness that Ernie was at my knee at last aroused me from the indulgence of my grief, and I looked down to meet his compassionate and inquiring eyes fixed upon me with a masterful expression I have never seen in any other childish face. It thrilled me to the heart. "What Mirry cry for is God mad with Mirry?" he asked at length. "It seems so, Ernie yet oh, no, no!
'Oo are you gettin' at? replied the captain, who had taken advantage of his position to put himself in first, and was still at the wicket. 'Well, then I shan't ply, answered Liza. 'Garn, Ernie, let 'er go in! shouted two or three members of the team. 'Well, I'm busted! remarked the captain, as she took his bat.
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