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I waited to give Charley all the time I could, and I pretended dissatisfaction with the stretch of the sail and slightly shifted the small tackle by which the huge sprit forces up the peak. It was not until I was sure that Charley had reached Dan Maloney's and was on the little mare's back, that I cast off from the wharf and gave the big sail to the wind.
After a while, Hector, looking back, exclaimed, "Why, they are not wolves at all, but a couple of dogs Old Buster, who belongs to the Doctor, and Dan Maloney's Muskey! They took a great fancy to me, for I used to play with them; but I had no idea of enticing them away from their masters."
Maloney's presence in constant contact with the dinner arrangements on pleasant days Mrs. Maloney betook herself to the open air. Then, in the Mitchell family there was that trial to any woman of ordinary patience, a small girl who "helped" worked for her board mornings and evenings, and played at school the rest of the time.
He went to the Nickelorion and grasped the hand of the ticket-taker, the Brass-button Man, ejaculating: "How are you? Well, how's things going with the old show?... I been away couple of months." "Fine and dandy! Been away, uh? Well, it's good to get back to the old town, heh? Summer hotel?" "Unk?" "Why, you're the waiter at Pat Maloney's, ain't you?" Next morning Mr.
Give him my compliments, and tell him to go out and watch the snowdrops growing in Madison Square Garden." "Sure," said Master Maloney. Then Psmith, having smoothed the nap of his hat and flicked a speck of dust from his coat-sleeve, walked to the door of the inner room and went in. Master Maloney's statement that "about 'steen visitors" had arrived in addition to Messrs.
It did Curly good to see him standing there so easy and deliberate among the excitable town people. "Soapy is doing the talking." "I heard him; happened to be at the Silver Dollar when they dragged him in." Maloney's eyebrows moved the least bit. His friend understood. Together they passed out of the back door of the shop into an alley. The others stood back and let them go.
They took him to his room at Mrs. Maloney's cottage, and put him in his bed. The doctor came soon, and under his vigorous treatment the man lost that deathly pallor about his face, but he did not yet recover consciousness. The doctor said he would come out of it in time, and went away to see to the others who had been injured. The men who had brought the invalid were gone, and Mrs.
And though it was after one o'clock, Maloney's light was still burning, for I saw his tent shining white among the pines.
Probably Maloney's swift acquiescence in the doctor's mood had something to do with it; for his quick obedience certainly impressed me a good deal. But, even without that slight evidence, it was clear that each recognised the gravity of the occasion, and understood that sleep was impossible and sentry duty was the order of the night.
"So far, so good," Charley commented, while I paused to catch breath. "And very good indeed," I continued proudly. "You stroll carelessly up-town, but when you're once out of sight you leg it for all you're worth for Dan Maloney's. Take the little mare of his, and strike out on the county road for Vallejo.
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