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Updated: May 6, 2025
One-Eye had something of the sort in his own mind, for as he forsook the sink, Mrs. Kukor leading him, he shook a rumpled head at her. "Barber's bigger'n a barn!" he observed grimly. "Pos-i-tivvle!" Cis laughed, tossing her head. "I don't care how big he is," she declared, "or how mad! Algy can take care of himself."
Or at the girl that ye've tied up this whole long night!" By now, Cis, wrapped in her own quilt, was combed and in the big chair, and was being plied with milk by Mrs. Kukor. She was out of pain now, and her concern was mostly for Johnnie. She watched him constantly, smiling down at him lovingly.
Some one was in the hall Mrs. Kukor, for the steps rocked. "Chonnie?" she called now. "Chonnie! Talk sometink!" It was Big Tom who talked. "Oh, you go home, y' busybody!" he answered. "Mrs. Kukor! Mrs. Kukor! He's burning everything of Johnnie's!" shouted Cis. "Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!" burst out Barber, as if this had delighted him.
'Barber's the guy with the cargo-hook, is what they say. And Furman admits himself that I'm the only man's that's really earnin' that last raise. Yes, sir! 'Tom Barber's steel-constructed, is what he tells the boys." Meanwhile, Mrs. Kukor, still unaware of a strange presence, had been whispering excitedly with Cis, from whom she had got the facts concerning the wound.
For there was no iron fire escape outside; the nearest one came down the wall of the building to the kitchen window of the Gamboni family, to the left. And so Johnnie denied himself a perch on his sill a dangerous position, as both Mrs. Kukor and Cis pointed out to him. Their warnings were unnecessary.
"Oh, that makes it all the harder to bear! Oh, where's Mrs. Kukor? She knows something's wrong! Why hasn't she helped us?" She fell to weeping irritably. At his wits' end, Johnnie racked his brain for something to tell her something which might take her thoughts from her misery.
He saw nothing; but heard lively breathing, and a swish, swish, swish; next, a weak, mewlike cry. Then here was Mrs. Kukor herself, dropping down volubly, step by step, from her floor, aided by the banisters. "Eva?" she cried as she came; "wass it mine Eva?" Now, coming up the stairs to Johnnie's level, appeared a young lady with red cheeks on a marvelously white face. But this was not all.
Father Pat gave her another bow, and a gallant one. "Faith, Mrs. Kukor," said he, "the good Lord I worship was a Hebrew lad from the hills o' Judea." Next, Mrs. Kukor had a look at the roses, whose fragrance she inhaled with many excited exclamations of delight. After that, there was ice cream and raisin cake, enough for all. Every one served, the priest and Mrs.
At her door was her morning paper, with its queer lettering; on the door, pinned low, was what looked like a note. Feeling sure that it had been left for him, Johnnie carried it half-way to the roof to get a light on its message, which was sorry news indeed: Der Jony my rebeka has so bad sicknus i needs to go by hir love Leah Kukor.
The distance seemed endless. Johnnie began to fear that he might not reach the Father before he died. "Oh, all that fightin' was bad for him!" he concluded regretfully. "That's what's the matter! It wore him out! I wish Mrs. Kukor didn't go for him! But, oh, he mustn't die! He mustn't! He mustn't!" And yet that was precisely what Father Pat was about to do.
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