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Yes'm, I says, 'it went off, 's ye might say, like old Elder Maybee's powder, I guess," said David, "that I must 'a' ben talkin' ruther louder 'n I thought, fer I looked up an' noticed that putty much ev'ry one on 'em was lookin' our way, an' kind o' laughin', an' Price in pertic'ler was grinnin' straight at me. "'What's that, he says, 'about Elder Maybee's powder?
Wants to see some of the old places again. And by the great cats, she shall! No matter what my fool doctors say, Torchy, I mean to take a night or two off when she comes. If Bonnie can stand it I guess I can, too." "Yes, sir," says I, grinnin' sympathetic. Well, that was 1:15 a.m. And at exactly 2:30 he limps out with his hand to his right side and his face the color of cigar ashes.
"Could you hear what else he said?" "No, sah. After dat he whisper to her, hissin' like a snake." Laurie set his teeth. Even Sam felt the ophidian in Shaw. "Go on," he ordered. "Den I reckon Miss Mayo she put on a coat, an' dat man wait. I t'ought he was gwine leave, an' I sho' was glad. But he stood dere, waitin' an' grinnin' nuff to split his haid." Laurie recognized the grin.
He's an old friend of the Pirate, don't make no mistake; neither you nor me will be any the worse for not seein' his grinnin' phiz no more. Thank your stars he've left you alone for the last part of the voyage, which I wonder at, all the same." Next day all was bustle on board in preparation for sailing. He went down to his cabin, and coming up a few minutes later, cried: "Where's that boy Burke?"
The Pats begin to hoora too, thinking it was a runaway; and first lot on 'em stands grinnin' and wavin' their old hats as we comes abreast on 'em; and then you'd ha' laughed to see how took aback and choking savage they looked, when they gets the peas a-stinging all over 'em. But bless you, the laugh weren't all of our side, sir, by a long way.
Ellins and get him to sign up." "Eh?" says Old Hickory, starin'. "And you played him off against Matt. Dowd? You impertinent young rascal! But I say, Robert, you should have seen and heard 'em. It was rich. They nearly talked each other to a standstill." "Then I gather, Torchy," says Mr. Robert, grinnin', "that the king of book agents now sits on a tottering throne.
'Come out of that, says I, 'and tell me if dead or alive I am. He got up, and there was the noise soft and grand again, but with it now the voices of men, the flip of birds' wings and the sighin' of tree tops, and behind all that the long wash of a sea like none I ever heard. . . . 'Well, says I to the Injin grinnin' before me, 'what's that, in the name o' Moses? 'That, says he, laughin' slow in me face, 'is the Tall Master him that brought you to the camp. Thin I remimbered all the things that's been said of him, and I knew it was music I'd been hearin' and not children's voices nor anythin' else at all.
It was a big minute for him, and for me, too, and I'll prob'ly never forget the picture of that pantin' boy at bay among them grinnin' barbarians. The curs was yappin' at his heels, the squaws was gigglin' and makin' faces, the bucks was showin' their teeth and pointin' at his tears. Mike never said a word.
I 'low she gets my help in that. "He says, 'They'll run you so far into the mountings, Mr. Cavendish, you'll never be heard tell of again in these parts. "I says, 'I'll bust the heads offen these here galoots if they try that! "He asks, grinnin', 'Have you arranged how yo' remains are to be sent back to yo' folks?
Next she glances towards Gladys. "Say," she goes on, "is is she the one?" "Yes," says Warrie. "Same to you," says Valentina. "Good-by." They shook hands once more sort of a long, lingerin' shake, with their eyes steady to each other; and then well, then I steers Valentina out past the grinnin' cloak-room boys and stows her in the taxi. She didn't have much to say on the way down.
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