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"What have you got it tied up for?" she demanded. "Tied up?" Galusha's smile broadened. "Oh, I see," he observed. "Well, I lost my hat. It blew off into the ah sea. It was rather too cold to be about bareheaded, so I used the scarf you so kindly lent me." Martha gazed at him for an instant and then burst into a hearty laugh. "Mercy on me!" she cried. "WHAT an idiot I am!
Bangs," she cried, "how can I thank you? How can Nelson and I ever, ever thank you?" Galusha's embarrassment managed to pump a little color into his wan cheeks. "I I ah dear me, it was nothing," he stammered. "I I am ah yes, quite so. Please don't mention it." "But I shall mention it. Indeed, I shall.
You will excuse me, I hope, but ah I must, really." Pulcifer held up a protesting hand. It was that holding the cigar and he waved it slowly back and forth. One of Galusha's experiences had been to be a passenger aboard a tramp steamer loaded with hides when fire broke out on board. The hides had smoked tremendously and smelled even more so.
The only variations from the sea pictures were a "crayon-enlarged" portrait of a sturdy man with an abundance of unruly gray hair and a chin beard, and a chromo labeled "Sunset at Niagara Falls." The portrait bore sufficient resemblance to Miss Martha Phipps to warrant Galusha's guess that it was intended to portray her father, the "Cap'n Jim" of whom the doctor had spoken.
The saddest smile in all creation passed across Galusha's face. "Why why, yes," he said. "I suppose everything is wrong. I should have expected it to be, of course. I I did, but ah for a little while I was ah foolish and and hoped. It is quite all right, Cousin Gussie, absolutely so. She said it was ah impossible. Of course it is. She is quite right. Oh, quite." Cabot caught his meaning.
"I I beg your pardon," he stammered, "but really I What did you say he did?" "I said he sees his wife. Anyhow, he thinks he does. She comes to him nights and stands alongside of his bed and they talk. Ain't that awful?" Galusha took off his spectacles and rubbed them. "Ain't it awful, Mr. Bangs?" repeated Primmie. Galusha's faint smile twitched the corners of his lips.
It was Primmie's voice and as she was sitting next Zach Bloomer, who was next Galusha Bangs, the unexpectedness of it made the latter jump. Miss Phipps, next in line on Galusha's left, jumped likewise. "Primmie," she said, sharply, "don't be silly." "But I CAN, Miss Martha. You know I can. Zach knows it, too. You've heard me, ain't you, Zach? Ain't you? Ain't you?" Thus urged, Mr.
But, my boy, to take five thousand dollars even for YOU to take five thousand cold, hard, legal tender dollars and toss them away for something which, so far as you knew, was not worth five cents that argues a little more than sympathy, doesn't it? And when you add eight thousand more of those dollars to the original five, then Why did you do it, Loosh?" Galusha's gaze fell.
There was a peculiar expression on his thin face. "What's the matter?" demanded Mr. Pulcifer. Galusha's gaze was very direct. "I wouldn't say that," he said, quietly. "Eh? Say what? I was just goin' to say that if Martha Phipps didn't like waitin' same as the rest of us she " "Yes, yes," hastily, "I know. But I shouldn't say it, if I were you." "You wouldn't. Why not, for thunder sakes?"
Oh, yes, deadly still for a long minute's interval, and then out of the nowhere ahead, with a suddenness which each time caused his weakened nerves to vibrate like fiddle strings, would burst the bellow of the great foghorn. Silence, the splash and "sugg" of Galusha's sodden shoes moving up and down, up and down and then: "OW ooo ooo -ooo OOO!!"
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