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"They're our neighbors here at Rosemere, you know. They have guests from town, and my folks are aboard. By Jove! Here's my chance to surprise 'em. I say, would you mind paddling around and giving me a shove off?" But I stands gawpin' out at the yacht. "The Morley Beckhams?" says I. "Yes, yes!" says he. "But hurry, please. I want to catch them."
I am at the Lady Louise. You may call for me there about eight. Good-by. Don't be late, Gentlemen." And with that she does the abrupt flit, leavin' us gawpin' at each other stupid. "Much obliged, Steele," says I, "for ringin' me in on this nutty reunion of yours. Say, J. B., you got a head like a tack, you have! Have a heart, can't you?"
And with that I throws in the clutch and leaves him gawpin'! "Why, Shorty!" says Sadie. "How horrid of you! And Mr. Bayne is such a nice old gentleman too!" "Yes, ain't he?" says I. "And for smoothness he's got a greased plank lookin' like a graveled walk." I didn't think he'd come after that.
We breezes along on the report until near lunch time with never a hitch until I gets to this paragraph where I mentions Camp Mills, and the next thing I know she has stopped short and is snifflin' through her nose. "Eh?" says I, gawpin' at her. "Have I been feedin' it at you too speedy?" "N no," says she, "bub but that's where Stub is Camp Mills and it got to me sudden."
I was standin' gawpin' 'round, list'nin' to the band an' watchin' the folks git their tickets, when all of a suddin I felt a twitch at my hair it had a way of workin' out of the holes in my old chip straw hat an' somebody says to me, 'Wa'al, sonny, what you thinkin' of? he says. I looked up, an' who do you s'pose it was? It was Billy P. Cullom!
Why, you're the one who's going to handle that ore transportation deal for the Corrugated, ain't you?" "I was, but I'm not," says the chatterbox. "Eh?" says I, gawpin'. "Can't take it on," says he. "Tell Ellins, will you?" "Not much!" says I. "Guess you'll have to hand that to him yourself, Mr. Wells. He'll be here any minute. Right this way."
Come here, feller," called the colonel; "be kinder sociable don't stand there a gawpin' at us ez ef we wuz a menagerie." The youth approached slowly, stared through the crowd, and finally asked: "Is there any one here from Pawkin Centre?" No one responded. "Some men went out to Californy from Pawkin Centre, and I didn't know but some of 'em was here.
How he's been able to dodge the net so long has puzzled more than me, and up to date I'd never had a hint that there was such a thing for him as a certain party. So I expect I was gawpin' some curious at the picture. "Huh!" says I, but more or less to myself. "Not intending any adverse criticism of the young lady, I trust?" remarks Mr. Robert.
"Otherwise, Constable Nute will " "Constable Nute will keep his distance from me," roared Cap'n Sproul, "or he'll get his everlastin' come-uppance. I can stand a certain amount of dum foolishness, and I serve notice that I've had full amount served out. Now you loafers standin' round gawpin, you grab anything that will scoop dirt and get to work diggin' here."
Look at her then, sailin' off to go up against a stiff-necked, cold-eyed Aunty, who's a believer in checkbook charity, and mighty little of that! And just so I won't feel out of it she tosses me a job that would keep a detective bureau and a board of pardons busy for a month. "Whiffo!" says I, gawpin' up the avenue after the cab. "And I pulled this down just by bein' halfway human!
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