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"Oh yes anything will do!" "Why, hello!" exclaimed Spike, reappearing with a cup and saucer, "still piping off Hermy's photo, Geoff?" "I'm wondering why she looks so sad?" "Sad?" repeated Spike, setting down the crockery with a rattle, "Hermy ain't sad; she always looks like that.
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.
I told you I'd try to get a steady job, an' so I will but I ain't goin' to quit the fightin' game for nobody! 'N' say I'm sleepy. How about it? You can have my bed, or the couch here, or you can get in Hermy's " "Thanks, the couch will do, Spike." "Then I guess it's me for the feathers!" said Spike, rising and stretching, "so long, Geoff!"
"Now me, though married ten long year, never 'ad no children, so ever since Hermy's mother died, I've tried to watch over her and help her as much as I could. She's had a mighty hard struggle, one thing and another, Mr. Geoffrey, an' now I've known her an' loved her so long it kind o' seems as if she belonged to me almost!" "She looks very good and brave!" said Mr. Ravenslee. "Good!" cried Mrs.
Think of Hermy!" "That's just what I am doing." "Well, s'posin' they hurt you! What'll Hermy do?" "You think she'd mind, then, though I'm only a peanut man?" "Even a peanut man's a feller creatur, ain't he an' Hermy's 'eart is very tender an' oh, shucks, Mr. Geoffrey, I guess you know she'd jest be crazy if you was hurt bad!"
"But Hermy ain't that sort. Hermy's good " "Sure, but this guy's got her fazed she thinks he's square all right she'll trust him an' then s'posin' he ain't?" "I I ain't s'posin' nothin' like that!" said Spike, gulping his whisky. "Well, s'posin' he's been meetin' her in a wood on the sly eh? S'posin' they been huggin' an' kissin' " "Say now you cut that out " stammered Spike, his voice thick.
"Oh, Gee!" said Spike in a hopeless tone, "now Hermy's gone an' filled my cup with milk." "Why, boy dear, so I have!" she confessed, with a rueful laugh, and her cheeks were very pink as she rectified her mistake. "Are you distracted too, then?" demanded Spike. "No, I I don't think so no, no of course I'm not! I I was just thinking, that's all!" "Not about tea, I reckon!
"You are a pessimist, I presume, Mr. Flowers?" "Where's d' Kid? Speak up now where is he?" "Also, your conversation grows a little monotonous, Mr. Flowers." M'Ginnis stared, then shot out his big chin viciously. "What you doin' in Hermy's flat, eh?" Mr.
Trapes sighed and shook her head. "The sun sure rises and sets for her in that b'y an' him only her stepbrother at that!" "Her stepbrother?" "Yes!" nodded Mrs. Trapes emphatically. "Hermy's ma were a lady, same as Hermy is; so were her pa, I mean a gentleman, of course.
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.
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