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"I engaged a detective to help you. I really thought you could not manage everything by yourself. I hope you do not mind." "Not at all, Mrs. Pett. Very wise." "I'm so glad to hear you say so." "An excellent move." Miss Trimble broke in on these amiable exchanges. "Whassall this? Howjer mean help me?"
The outer door closed on Archer and he walked hastily away toward the telegraph office. "Ol-ol howjer spell it, anyhow?" asked the tart young lady to whom Archer had pushed his wife's telegram across the brass ledge of the Western Union office. "Olenska O-len-ska," he repeated, drawing back the message in order to print out the foreign syllables above May's rambling script.
"Howjer manage it! How the dooce is it done?" "It's too long a story. And besides " "I tell you, the whole business fairly beats me," said Mr. Marvel. "What I want to say at present is this: I need help. I have come to that I came upon you suddenly. I was wandering, mad with rage, naked, impotent. I could have murdered. And I saw you " "Lord!" said Mr. Marvel.
I looked down; it was Johnnyboy, in a new and ravishing smuggler suit, with his questioning eyes fixed on mine. "Howjer do dat?" "Eh?" "Wajer do dat for?" "That? Oh, that's medicine. I've got a headache." He searched the inmost depths of my soul with his wonderful eyes. Then, after a pause, he held out his baby palm. "You kin give Johnny some." "But you haven't got headache have you?"
"Golly!" ejaculated Sally. "Howjer eat it? Fingers?" They had little time to talk while they were engaged with the capers of this surprising food; but when both were tired of playing with the spaghetti they turned their attention to the straw-covered bottle of Chianti which had been brought. Sally made a wry mouth at her first venture.
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