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Trina had borne up very well for the first day or so after the affair, and had given her testimony to the coroner with far greater calmness than Heise. It was only a week later that the horror of the thing came upon her again.
He got up and clapped on his hat. "Now, Doctor," remonstrated Heise, standing between him and the door, "don't go make a fool of yourself." "Let 'um alone," joined in Frenna, catching the dentist by the arm; "he's full, anyhow." "He broke my pipe," answered McTeague. It was this that had roused him.
Heise was the most important man the length and breadth of Polk Street; almost invariably he accompanied these parties, telling again and again of the part he had played in the affair. "It was about eleven o'clock. I was standing in front of the shop, when Mrs. McTeague you know, the dentist's wife came running across the street," and so on and so on. The next day came a fresh sensation.
Now what have YOU been doing since I last saw you? Did Mr. Heise finally get up enough courage to have his tooth pulled yet?" Trina took off her hat and veil and rearranged her hair before the looking-glass. "No, no not yet. I went down to the sign painter's yesterday afternoon to see about that big gold tooth for a sign. It costs too much; I can't get it yet a while.
"Come into the office, Hadlai, and I will explain." Pained to observe that the tone and air of confidence so perceptible in our last interview was lacking, I followed with some misgiving into his office. "Yes, Hadlai," he slowly began, "I have heard from all of them. The name of Heise of Cook was immediately stricken from the head of the list.
Trina kissed her father and mother, crying a little herself as she saw the tears in Mrs. Sieppe's eyes. Marcus came forward a second time, and, with an air of great gravity, kissed his cousin upon the forehead. Heise was introduced to Trina and Uncle Oelbermann to the dentist.
It had begun on the evening of Thanksgiving Day, when Heise had taken McTeague out to dinner with him. The dentist on this occasion had drunk very freely. He and Heise had returned to Polk Street towards ten o'clock, and Heise at once suggested a couple of drinks at Frenna's. "All right, all right," said McTeague. "Drinks, that's the word. I'll go home and get some money and meet you at Joe's."
Ain't you got any gratitude? Ain't you got any sense of decency?" "Ah, hold up, Schouler," grumbled Heise. "You don't want to get into a row." "No, I don't, Heise," returned Marcus, with a plaintive, aggrieved air. "But it's too much sometimes when you think of it.
Heise was smoking a cigar, but Marcus had before him his fourth whiskey cocktail. At the moment of McTeague's entrance Marcus had the floor. "It can't be proven," he was yelling. "I defy any sane politician whose eyes are not blinded by party prejudices, whose opinions are not warped by a personal bias, to substantiate such a statement. Look at your facts, look at your figures.
At which I unhesitatingly placed Armstrong of La Salle in the same column with Heise of Cook. "Now, Hadlai," continued the Doctor, after a moment's pause, "there is Cummins of Fulton; I helped elect Jim Chairman of the last State Convention, and he has told me again and again that he hoped he would live to see me Speaker, so I can count on Jim without doubt."
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