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Updated: May 14, 2025
Floud's place he had spoken of, and ma wants to know if he, too, goes in for ranching, and I says yes, he's awfully keen about it; so she says we'll ride over and chat with him and perhaps he can suggest some solution of the mystery in hand. I said all right, and we ride up. "Cousin Egbert is tipped back in a chair outside the door, reading a Sunday paper.
He shook my hand warmly. "Any friend of Sour-dough Floud's is all right with me," he assured me. "What's the matter with having a drink?" "Say, listen here! I wouldn't have to be blinded and backed into it," said Cousin Egbert, enigmatically, I thought, but as they sat down I, too, seated myself. Something within me had sounded a warning.
Instead, when we had descended from the bench and were again in fields where the gates might be opened only by galling effort, I learned apparently irrelevant facts concerning Egbert Floud's pet kitten. "Yes, sir; he's just like any old maid with that cat. 'Kitty! here and 'Kitty! there; and 'Poor Kitty, did I forget to warm its milk? And so on.
Sister and brother said beagles, by all means, like drowning sailors clutching at a straw or something; and the old lady sent off a telegram. "I admit I didn't know what kind of a game beagles was, but I didn't betray the fact when she told me about it. I was over to Egbert Floud's place next day and I asked him. But he didn't know and he couldn't even get the name right.
"There's more than one way to skin a cat," he added as we ascended to the Floud's drawing-room, though why his mind should have flown to this brutal sport, if it be a sport, was quite beyond me. At the door he paused and hissed at me: "Remember, no matter what she says, if you treat me white I'll treat you white."
So I remember this hidden evil of Egbert Floud's and that the crowd has gone there; and while I'm deciding to give in and gratify my morbid curiosity, here comes Cousin Egbert himself, romping along in his dinner-jacket suit and tan shoes, like a wild mustang. "What was I telling you?" he demands. "Didn't I tell you the rest of this show was going to die standing up?
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