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"Not sick, are you?" "No." Sheridan was puzzled; then, abruptly, he decided to ask his question. "I wanted to talk to you about that young Lamhorn," he said. "I guess your mother thinks he's comin' to see Edith pretty often, and you known him longer'n any of us, so " "I won't," said Roscoe, thickly "I won't say a dam' thing about him!"
"All ashore that's goin' ashore," observed Captain Cy. Then to the driver, who stood by the horses' heads, he added: "Stand by to get ship under way, commodore. I'm homeward bound, and there's a little messmate of mine waitin' on the dock already, I wouldn't wonder. So don't hang around these waters no longer'n you can help." But Mr. Peabody smiled and laid a hand on his shoulder.
"'If you ain't out working the road, says Doc Peets to Cherokee, not heedin' of Bogg's petulance, 'them stage-robbin' times, s'pose you onfolds where you was at?" "Well, son, not to string this yere story out longer'n three drinks, yere is how it is: This Cherokee it looks like is soft-hearted that a-way, what you calls romantic.
"Longer'n that, child much longer'n that," admitted Aunt 'Mira, shamefacedly. "P'r'aps 'tis my fault. Anyway, I'm glad about the pump," and she kissed her niece, heartily. Janice had learned that there were at least two senses left to Hopewell Drugg's unfortunate child that connected her with the world as it is, and with her fellow creatures.
"You'll have to excuse me, Bailey," interrupted Captain Hiram, rising and looking at his watch. "I've stayed here a good deal longer'n I ought to, already. I must be gettin' on home to see how poor little Dusenberry, my boy, is feelin'. I do hope he's better by now. I wish Dr. Parker hadn't gone out of town." The depot master rose also. "And I'll have to be excused, too," he declared.
"So you're out again?" The question was really a statement. "Yes," assented Letts, sitting down on the edge of the chair, "an' I wouldn't a been if I hadn't been let out on good behavior. I made up my mind I wouldn't stay a minute longer'n I had to." "I guess after this you won't be stealing dead bodies, will you?" asked the rich man. "Nope, you bet I won't! I've enough of Auburn.
"I reckon you think, child, that a caliker or a worsted quilt is a curious sort of a monument 'bout as perishable as the sweepin' and scrubbin' and mendin'. But if folks values things rightly, and knows how to take care of 'em, there ain't many things that'll last longer'n a quilt.
Mr. Phinney grasped his arm. "For the dear land sakes, Sol," he exclaimed, "don't leave me hangin' in them breakers no longer'n you can help! Heave ahead! DID you bump?" The depot master chuckled. "DID we?" he repeated. "Well, I'll tell you that by and by. Here comes the train and I better take charge of the ship.
To this he went, and spoke to the man on the box: "Is this hack engaged?" "Yes, sah, it is took by four gents as can't get no lodgings at none of the hotels, nor yet boarding houses no, sah. Dere dey is ober yonder in dat dere s'loon cross de street yes, sah. But it don't keep open, dat s'loon don't, longer'n twelve o'clock no, sah. It's mos' dat now, so dey'll soon call for dis hack yes, sah!"
But I wish Aunt Maria'd leave me have curls. I'd have a lot, and long ones, longer'n Mary Warner's." "Phœbe!" Aunt Maria's voice startled the little girl. "What in the world are you doing lookin' in that glass so? And your knees on a cane-bottom chair! You know better than that. What for are you lookin' at yourself like that? You ought to be ashamed to be so vain."
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