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After this Hermy was so evidently his darling that there was no further chance for Hermy's younger sister, who had at first promised to be the favourite, and I shall never forget the soft, almost motherly, caressing tones that came from that grey-bearded man with the large round head and strong face, when he sought to comfort the child.
"'S right," murmured Soapy, "told ye Bud 'ud comfort ye, didn't I, Kid?" "So Hermy's drove ye away?" said M'Ginnis, "throwed ye out eh?" "She sure has, Bud, an' I Oh, I'm miserable as hell!" "Why, then, get some o' Bud's comfort into ye, Kid," murmured Soapy. "Lap it up good, Kid; there's plenty more in th' bottle!" "Let him alone," growled M'Ginnis, "he don't want you buttin' in!"
Didn't she go an' let you wed her when we all thought you was dyin'?" "Oh, did she?" said he very gently. "Why then, it it wasn't all a dream?" "Mr. Geoffrey, Hermy's been Mrs. Ravenslee, your lawful wedded wife, just exactly four weeks." Ravenslee stared up at the ceiling, dreamy-eyed. "Good heavens!" he murmured. "I thought I'd only dreamed it."
"Ain't got none don't remember having none don't want none; Hermy's good 'nuff for me." "Good to you, is she?" enquired Mr. Ravenslee. "Good t' me!" cried Spike, "good? Well, say when I think about it I I gets watery in me lamps, kinder sloppy in me talk, an' all mushy inside! Good t' me? Well, you can just bet on that!" "And," enquired Mr. Ravenslee sleepily, "are you as good to her?"
But Hermy's father died, an' then her ma, poor soul, goes an' marries a good-lookin' loafer way beneath her, a man as weren't fit to black her shoes, let alone take 'em off! And Arthur's his father's child. Oh, a good enough b'y as b'ys go, but wild, now and then, and rough, like his dad." "I see!" nodded her hearer, thoughtfully.
At table we overheard Kurt say to Karl: "Little Hermy's present for grandmother was not a bad idea," to which Karl answered quickly: "I am going to put away some of my nuts to-morrow, and plant them in the spring." "To make a pair of crutches for me, or in order that you may go to Heaven?" asked the colonel.
What you doin' in Hermy's flat? By God! I'll choke ye till you tell me!" and his hands came upon Ravenslee's throat came to be met there by two other hands that, closing upon his wrists, wrenched and twisted viciously in opposite directions and, loosing his hold, M'Ginnis fell back, staring down at bruised and lacerated skin where oozed a few slow drops of blood.
She's all waked up an' palpitatin' for for that dam' " he choked, and set one hand to his scratched throat. "What d'ye mean, Bud?" "Ah!" said Soapy, softer than before, "I'm on, Bud; you put me wise! He means, Kid, as Hermy's in love with th' guy as has just been punchin' hell out of him he means your pal Geoff."
"O' course, my soul ain't all it should be a bit stained here an' there, p'raps a bit th' worse for wear, Mr. Geoffrey, but Hermy's well, there, I guess it's jest as sweet as a flower still, an' white as white as that tablecloth. An' talkin' about her soul what about her body, Mr. Geoffrey?" Ravenslee started. "Her body?" said he, staring.
"So you think that she is falling in love, then?" enquired Ravenslee slowly. "Well, Hermy's Hermy, an' she's wrote you two letters to my knowin' " "No, only one, Mrs. Trapes." "Now Hermy ain't the kind o' girl t' write twice to a man unless " "But she has only written me one letter, Mrs. Trapes the one she left with you last week." "Oh, well here's the other!" said Mrs.
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