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But just let me tell you how the matter stands," and he proceeded to relate the facts of the case. "I thought," he said, in conclusion, turning to Matlack, "that perhaps you knew about it, for I told Mr. Sadler, and I supposed he might have mentioned it to you." "No, sir," said Matlack, relighting his pipe, "he knows me better than that.
Martin was very much engrossed in his own thoughts, but he could not repress an inquiring interest in his companion. "Well," said he, "did you bounce him?" Matlack made no answer, but began to cut out the top of a tin can. "I say," repeated Martin, "did you bounce him, or did he go without it?" Without turning towards the younger man, Matlack remarked: "I was mistaken.
"To-morrow," said Matlack, as he brought a dish of hot and savory broiled ham, "after Mr. Archibald gets to work, we'll have some fish." Mrs. Archibald had been a little fearful that under these primitive conditions the two men might expect to sit at the table with them, but she need have had no such fears.
"Of course," said she, "it would not do to propose such a thing to the criminal classes or to people of evil inclinations, but I have carefully considered the whole subject as it relates to us, and I think we are a party singularly well calculated to become the exponent of the distinctiveness of our several existences." "That gits me," said Matlack.
Matlack gazed at him a moment in silence, and then went on cutting the bread. "I don't understand this thing," he said to himself. "I must look into it." The next morning Mr. Archibald started out, very early, on a fishing expedition by himself. He was an enthusiastic angler, and had not greatly enjoyed the experience of the day before.
I tell you, Phil Matlack, that the more I knows myself, just me, the more I'm tickled. It seems like scootin' round in the woods, findin' all sorts of funny hoppin' things and flowers that you never seed before. Why, it 'ain't been a whole day since I begun knowin' myself, and I've found out lots. I used to think that I liked to cook and clean up, but I don't; I hate it."
"Now, then," said Phil Matlack, walking around the circle and approaching the stranger, "you said, when you first came here, that you were going to go, and the time has come when you've got to go." "Very well," said the other, looking up with a smile; "if I've got there I'd better stop." Mr. Archibald and the young men laughed, but Matlack and Martin, who had now joined him, did not laugh.
If you will allow me, after I have eaten a little supper a meal which I must admit I greatly need I will explain to you how I happen to be here." And with a bow he walked towards the table where Matlack and Martin had been eating their supper. "Do you know what I think he is?" said Mr. Clyde, when Mr. Archibald had resumed his seat and his pipe. "I believe he is a wandering actor.
"He's a mighty good fisherman," thought Matlack, looking at the young fellow as he brought his rod back from the water with a long graceful sweep, and then, with another sweep and an easy inclination of his body forward, sending the fly far out on the smooth surface of the lake, "although there ain't no need to tell him so; and I don't wonder she'd rather stand and watch him than try to do it herself."
"That is Martin," said Margery. For a moment Mr. Clyde did not seem to understand, and then he exclaimed: "You don't mean the young man who cuts wood and helps Matlack?" "Yes, I do," she answered. "And you need not shut your jaw hard and grit your teeth that way. That is exactly what he did when he found out about Mr. Raybold.
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