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He's even now in his stateroom sitting in his pyjamas with a rubber shoe on one foot and a pump on the other, wondering whether he ought to put on golf knickerbockers with a dressing-gown and straw hat before he comes on deck. He has already put on and taken off about twenty suits." "He certainly is very trying," returned Lummox. He paused and colored deeply.
At breakfast he saw Miss Bike. "Thank you so much," she said; "Mrs. Starling found Starling greatly improved. He himself admitted he was 'never berrer' and, far from worrying about what night-clothes he should wear, went to bed AS HE WAS even to his hat. Mrs. Starling calls you 'her preserver, and Mr. Starling distinctly stated that you were a 'jolly-good-fler." "And you?" asked John Lummox.
A rich man, and settled in business, John Lummox concluded that he would marry Mary Bike. With that far-sighted logic which had always characterized him he reasoned that, having first met her on a liner, he would find her again on one if he took passage to Europe. He did but she was down on the passenger list as Mrs. Edwin Wraggles. The result of their interview was given to Mrs.
Bigsby with great promptness. "I've heard enough of 'em." "But this here one hez suthin' to do with your fr'en', John Lummox," said Dan'l, with a chuckle. Mrs. Bigsby stared. "Go on, then," she said, "but, for goodness' sake, cut it short." Dan'l threw away his quid and replenished it from his silver tobacco box. Mrs.
"Risked your life for me, did you?" She laughed jeeringly at that. "Why, you big lummox, I could have yanked you out as easy as turn a somersault if you started to drown. And now suppose you hammer the trail while it's open." He bestowed upon her a glance whose purpose was to wither her.
You know the doctor insists upon the Friedrichshalle, but I don't think I did well to mix them as I did yesterday. Or shall I take simply milk and beer?" "I should say simplicity was best. Besides, you can always fill up with champagne later." How splendidly this clear-headed, clear-eyed girl dominated the man! Lummox felt that REALLY he might renew her acquaintance! He did so.
"Well, Lummox never changes ez much as a hair, ez he puts up his eyeglasses. 'I'm not good at what's called "Pop'lar Art," sez he. 'Is it a chromo, or your own work? sez he, critical like. "'It's YOUR HOSS, sez I. "He looks at me a minit and then drors a paper from his pocket.
You ought to know me by this time." "That's so!" said Mrs. Bigsby; "I'm wonderin' ye dared to ax him." Dan'l passed his hand over his mouth, and continued: "'I dunno but you're right, Lummox, sez I; 'per'aps it's jest as well as thar wasn't TWO in the Bank in that bizness. But the more I looked at the hoss the more I hankered arter him. 'Look here, sez I, 'I tell ye what I'll do!
She had not said "like"; she had said, "Flopit LOVE ole friends best"! William pressed forward valiantly, and placed himself as close as possible upon the right of Miss Pratt, the lummox being upon her left. A moment later, William wished that he had remained in the rear.
And this is how John Lummox came to offer himself as a clerk to Dan'l Borem. The ways of Providence are indeed strange, yet those of the novelist are only occasionally novel. John K. Lummox lived for a week at the Turkey Buzzard Hotel exclusively on doughnuts and innuendoes. He was informed by Mr.
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