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Updated: June 19, 2025
Get your heads in there, ye beggars!" said the old man to the popcorn. "I'd ought to have somebody here to pick up them shooting kernels," he complained. In a little while, with flat-footed stamping, Ben Helders came in. When he had the pattern number, by laborious copying against the wall under the bracket lamp, Matthew said to him: "Going to get a boy to work out, are you?"
I didn't get the toy you mentioned. I thought you wouldn't want it, without the little kid." Matthew looked swiftly at Ellen. He had not told her that he had sent by Helders for a toy. And at that Ellen crossed abruptly to her husband, and she was standing there as they let Helders out, with the little boy. Ellen's father pounded his knee. "But how long'll we have to wait?
And it chanced that they knocked at the Bournes' door just after Ben Helders had driven away with the little boy, so that the men found the family still in the presence of the little tree. "Hello," said Simeon, aghast, "Christmassing away all by yourselves, I'll be bound, like so many thieves. I rec'lect not seeing your names on the paper." "No, I didn't sign," Ellen said.
How long'll we have to wait?" he demanded shrilly. "King and country, why didn't somebody ask him that?" Matthew tore open the door. "Helders!" he shouted, "how long did they say we'd have to wait?" "Mebbe only a week or two mebbe longer," Helders' voice came out of the dark. "They couldn't tell me." Ellen's mother stood fastening up a fallen tinsel walnut.
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