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Rucker was following me about calling me Jacob and Jakey, a good deal as a man will try to smooth down or pacify a vicious horse or mule; and after I had looked everywhere, I faced him, took him by the throat, and choked him until his tongue stuck out, and his face was purple. "My God," said the girl, who had grown suddenly quiet, "you're killing him!"
Eloise is very happy, and if a fear of the Harris taint ever creeps into her mind, it is dissipated at once in the perfect sunshine which crowns her life. Nearly every year Jakey comes to visit "chile Dory an' her lil ones," and once Mandy Ann spent a summer in Crompton as cook in place of Cindy, who was taking a vacation. But Northern ways of regularity and promptness did not suit her.
"Tell the professor you're sorry for what you've done, so you can run along," said the chairman of the board persuasively. "Naw, I ain't sorry," returned Jakey, hands in pockets. Then bethinking himself "But I ain't done nothin'." Abbott said regretfully, "He'll have to be whipped." Clinton nodded, and sat down solemnly, breathing hard.
It almost seemed possible that she might fade and fade to an autumn leaf, and float out the window, and be lost Clinton had an odd impulse to hold her, lest she vanish. Fran now completed her work. She rose from the immovable Jakey and came over to Abbott Ashton, with meekly folded hands. He found the magic of the moonlight-hour returning.
They pushed out into the sea again, and were buffeted of the human waves; from time to time Old Bill anchored for a few seconds in the tiny harbor which surrounded each bookmaker; but it was as though they were all in league the same odds on every list. "It's same as a 'sociation book," he grunted; "de cut holds in every blasted one of 'em. Here's Jakey Faust," he added, suddenly; "let's try him."
"Yes, mother, and before long we shall reach your old home and Jakey," was Eloise's answer, as she kissed her mother good-night and sought her own pillow to think of the great happiness which had come to her in Jack Harcourt's love, and which would compensate for any disappointment there might be in store for her.
There was no telling when Nebraska would be up and about. His recovery, thanks to past dissipations, had been exceedingly slow. Again, perhaps the delay might be merely a detail of the plan Fat Jakey Pooley mentioned in his letter to Luke Tweezy, or it might be due to the more-than-watchful care the Dales and Morgans were taking of old Mr. Dale.
So she either was not there or was not able to work my instinct told me that; and I ran to the foot of the stairs, and calling as I had so often done when a child, "Ma, Ma! Where are you, ma!" I waited to hear her answer. Rucker, pale as a sheet, came up to me, his quivering mouth trying to work itself into a sneaking sort of smile. "Why, Jacob, Jakey," he drooled, "is this you? I didn't know you.
The committee rose as one man, and, staring at each other with bulging eyes, said "Jake!" all at once. "Jakey, b'gosh!" repeated the constable to himself, kicking his own shins softly as he tugged at his beard. "Jake, by thunder!" Jake was a boy of eighteen, who had been employed by the farmer to do chores. He was shiftless, and a week or two before had been sent away in disgrace.
There was one girl a pretty one in a red shawl, crying in a corner like her heart would dissolve. Buck goes over and asks her about it. "It ain't so much losing the money, mister," says she, shaking all over, "though I've been two years saving it up; but Jakey won't marry me now. He'll take Rosa Steinfeld. I know J J Jakey. She's got $400 in the savings bank. Ai, ai, ai " she sings out.
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