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"You'd better get 'old of Bob afore 'e finds it out, Dicky," ses Bill Chambers. Dicky Weed didn't answer 'im; he was already running along to Bob Pretty's as fast as 'is legs would take 'im, with most of us follering behind to see wot 'appened. The door was fastened when we got to it, but Dicky Weed banged away at it as 'ard as he could bang, and at last the bedroom winder went up and Mrs.
In a moment Old John spurred forward and gained his side and began to argue hot-headedly. "Hey! Charley!" he cried. "Why are you follering this track?" he demanded. "Because it's his; that's why." "Well, here, wait a minute!" and Old John was getting red from excitement. "How do you know it is? Mebby he took the other!"
"Well!" she said, gaily, "be you a-follering of me, or be I a- follering of you?" "I don't know! How do you do, Miss Thornton!" Peter said, with his delighted laugh. He drew to Susan the attention of a stout lady in purple velvet, beside him. "Mrs. Fox Miss Brown," said he, "and Miss Thornton Mrs. Fox." "Mrs. Fox," said Susan, pleasantly brief. "Miss Brown," said Mrs. Fox, with a wintry smile.
The actor-chap bolted out as if he'd been shot, and I was just thinking of follering 'im when the landlord's wife and 'is two daughters came rushing out and asking me wot I 'ad done to him. "There there was two of 'im !" ses the landlord, trembling and holding on to 'is wife's arm, as they helped 'im up and got 'im in the chair. "Two of 'im!" "Two of wot?" ses his wife.
"Hangelina's pictur was kindly presented to me by Countess B., her mamma, though of coarse I paid for it. "With such a perfusion of ringlits I should scarcely have known her but the ands, feat, and i's, was very like. She was painted in a gitar supposed to be singing one of my little melladies; and her brother Southdown, who is one of the New England poits, wrote the follering stanzys about her:
I didn't 'ear wot she said, but I saw her shake her 'ead, and a'most direckly arterwards she was marching away between the two policemen with the crowd follering and advising 'er where to kick 'em. I was a bit worried at fust not about her and then I began to think that p'raps it was the best thing that could have 'appened.
I begin 2 think there wuz something good in Abe Lincoln, after all, & when we stopped at an eatin-plais, about half-way 2 Louisville, & Abe looked at the grub as if he haddent had a mouthful sence the war begun, I busted a $2-bill all 2 pieces gittin' him a little supper. If I wuz goin into the bizniss ov freein slaves I'd want 2 have a mule train haulin grub follering me at every step.
He was up that ladder hand over fist, with me close behind 'im, and as soon as he 'ad got on to the wharf started to run to 'is ship. "Good night, Bill," he ses, over 'is shoulder. "Arf a moment." I ses, follering 'im. "I must get aboard," he ses; "I believe I've got a chill," and afore I could stop 'im he 'ad jumped on and run down to 'is cabin.
He and Mabel and me was the full crew at the breakfast-table the follering morning. The fruit season was a quiet one. I done all the talking there was; every time the broker and the housekeeper looked at each other they turned red. Finally 'twas "chopped-hay" time, and in comes the waiter with the tray. And again we had a surprise, just like the one back in July.
"There ain't no such thing as ghosts," he ses; "you've been drinking." "It came up out o' the river and run arter me like the wind," I ses. "Why didn't it catch you, then?" he ses, looking me up and down and all round about. "Talk sense." He went up to the gate and peeped in, and, arter watching a moment, stepped inside and walked down the wharf, with me follering.
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