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"Positively, Ned, you get on my nerves." "Yais, Massa Ned, an' I jest wish yo' wouldn't mention dem head gen'men no mo'," added Eradicate. "I can't drive straight when I hears yo' say dem words, an' goodness knows dese oxes is wusser t' drive dan my mule Boomerang." "All right I'll keep still," agreed Ned, and then he and Tom, together with Mr.
Again Aleck had to be told the particulars and again he was tremendously interested. When the boys had finished he sat in silence for several minutes. "I've got it-jest de t'ing!" he cried suddenly. "Got what?" asked Tom. "De right idea, Massah Tom. Foah gen'men like yo' don't want to go to Africa widout a valet nohow. Let me be de workin' man fe de crowd.
"Bress yo' he'at, honey!" exclaimed the buxom cook, "I done put in enough fo' two mo' gen'men if yo'all would laik t' take 'em along. Don't yo'all worry!" "No, I think one young man will be sufficient," laughed Betty. "Only I didn't want him to go hungry, and I know the appetites of my friends." "Speak for yourself, if you please!" chided Mollie. "You eat as much as any of us."
From time to time he felt of their pulses, and nodded his head as if satisfied. "Is the beef tea ready?" asked the old man, after a half hour had passed. "It am, Perfessor." "Then turn down the flame a bit so it will keep the stuff warm, and come back into the work shop with me. I want to get that last bolt in the engine." "Are dem young gen'men all hunky-dory?"
The Egret and her light had disappeared round a bend and the negro was pointing at the empty moonlit river. Hoots of laughter greeted him. "Guess you got 'em, Sam. No other boat round here." "Ma Dieu! Ah seen him. Yoh gen'men sho' they wasn't no boat?" "You're raving. No boat at all." "Oh Oh !" "Shut up!" cried White. "Shut up!" A moment's silence.
Aleck Pop was very much interested in such conversation as he had overheard, and as he had accompanied the boys to the jungles of Africa and on the houseboat trip he was very anxious to be a member of the present party. "I don't see how yo' young gen'men is gwine to get along widout me," he said to Sam. "Don't yo' think you kin squeeze me aboadh somehow?"
Bruce, at his Florida home, was showing the photograph to his family when it caught the eye of a colored servant, who exclaimed: "O Massa Bruce, I know those gen'men. My father and mother hid 'em in Massa's barn at Pickensville and fed 'em; there was three of 'em; I saw 'em."
"Aren't you afraid you'd get seasick, Aleck?" asked Sam. "I ain't afraid ob muffin, if only yo'll take me along," answered the darkey earnestly. "I suppose the steam yacht has its cook." "Dat might be, Massa Sam, but didn't I cook all right on dot houseboat?" "You certainly did." "Might be as how I could gab dot cook on de yacht seem p'ints as to wot yo' young gen'men like, ain't dot so?"
"The gen'men that occupied Numbers 9 and 10, sah," said the porter. "When did they get off?" "'Bout three o'clock, sah when de train stopped at Snapwood." "I haven't any tickets for Snapwood," said the conductor, who had appeared on the scene. "Then they must have had tickets for some other point," said Joe. "That looks black for them."
"'Scuse me, Massa Tom," said the colored man, "but dat express gen'men can't bring dem explosive powder boxes in heah, 'case as how his autermobile hab done ketched fire an' he cain't get near it nohow. Dat's why, Massa Tom!" "Caesar's ghost!" yelled the young inventor. "The auto on fire, and that powder in it! Come on Ned!" and he made a rush for the door. "Tom!
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