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I can't whale the daylights out of the ghost, and I don't suppose it would be proper for a first selectman to cuff the ears of the woman that said females was followin' me, wailin' and gnashin' their teeth, but I can lick that yaller-fingered, cigarette-suckin' dude, and pay the fine for so doin' and reckon I've got my money's worth." "You need a guardeen," snorted Hiram.
"Has she any relatives?" inquired Julia. "Claims to be, one woman there, a high falootin dame, claims to be her guardeen," he said, using the quaint old way of pronouncing the last word. "But I'm not sure. Don't know as I just like her any too well." And again the pipe suffered from suppressed emotion.
"Just like a guardeen angel," mused the enraptured Perk, standing at his post and sending frequent curious as well as proud glances aloft, "as he told me he meant to be. Say, ain't this simply great stuff we've struck? never felt so joyous in all my life as when I smashed them two tear-bombs down on the deck here an' busted up that fightin' mob.
"What do I say, little captain, but that you've a long head on your young shoulders, and I'm sorry this load of grief had to rest on it so early. More than that; I undertook to be your guardeen to-day, and I've no notion of shirking the job even now. I passed my word to the 'admiral' that I'd fetch you home safe, and so I will. It won't take much longer and it's right.
I shall go up to his bedroom after he is asleep, and then it will be the easiest thing in the world to take the pocketbook without his knowin' anything about it." "He'll know it in the mornin'." "Let him! Possession is nine p'ints of the law, Mrs. Fox." "He might say you stole it." "He can't do that, for I'm his guardeen, don't you see?" A little after ten Mr.
Ain't you ashamed to swindle a green little kid out o' the money that he wants to send to his widowed mother?" "Go off and 'tend to your own business, if you know what's good for you," said the larger of the men threateningly. "Keep your spoon out o' other folks' soup. This young man knows what he's about. He kin take care o' himself. He ain't no chicken. You ain't his guardeen."
I could make nothing out of their incoherent explanations. ... "Trypheny was crazy ... she'd ought to have a guardeen ... that Canuck shoemaker had addled her brains ... there'd ought to be a law against that kind of newspaper. ... Trypheny was goin' like her great-aunt, Lucilly, that died in the asylum. ..." I appealed directly to Cousin Tryphena for information as to what the trouble was.
Brock's premises. "Good-mornin, Mrs. Brock," said John Fox. "You've come nigh havin' a causality here." "You're right there, Mr. Fox," answered Mrs. Brock. "I was awful skeered about it, for I thought my Nancy might be on the train. When the boy run into my yard " "The boy! What boy?" asked Fox, eagerly. "It was that boy you are guardeen of."
"You hadn't no claim on the money if you are his guardeen. A collection was took up by the passengers, and given to the boy, and he thought I ought to have pay for use of the tablecloth, so he gave me a ten-dollar bill and a little gentleman he is, too." "A collection taken up for my ward?" repeated Fox, pricking up his ears. "Well, well! that is news."
Alford had been uneasy during this conversation, and broke in at the first pause. "Well, Square, I guess you'd best wait till 'bout next week-a-Thursday afore you try to use your 'thority. Probate Court sets on Wednesday, an' I guess that'll 'bout wind up your business as guardeen." What a magazine of wrath that shot exploded! The lawyer was dumb for a moment, but presently he and Mrs.
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