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Ducker went on with infinite tact, feeling his rainbow dreams of responding to toasts at Elk banquets drawing nearer and nearer. Then the Evil Genius of the House of Ducker awoke from his slumber, sat up and took notice! The house that the friend in Winnipeg had selected for them fell into irreparable ruins! Poor Maudie's automobile vanished at a touch.
How do you do, madam?" and he made a weak motion of one hand towards Mrs. O'Flynn to do duty for that splendid bow of his. Then, as no one spoke, "You're too late, O'Flynn." "Too late?" "Had a job in your line...." Then suddenly: "Maudie's worth the whole lot of you." They knew it was his way of saying "She's told me." They all sat and looked at the floor. Nothing happened for a long time.
"No no she didn't die;" then half to himself, half to forestall Maudie's crude probing, "but I lost her," he finished. "Oh, you lost her!" He stood, looking past the ugliness within to the morning majesty without. But it was not either that he saw. Maudie studied him. "Guess you ain't give up expectin' to find her some day?" "No no, not quite." "Humph! Did you guess you'd find her here?"
"Well, I didn't think you were that much of a coward turnin' tail like this just because a poor little Esquimaux Besides, she may have got over it. Even the higher races do." And he went on poking his fun till suddenly the Boy said: "You're in such high spirits, I suppose you must have heard Maudie's up from Minóok. "You're jokin'!" "It ain't my idea of a joke.
As she stood there, with her fists full of gold, Maudie's eyes filled. She turned abruptly and went out. The crowd began to melt away. In half an hour only those remained who had more hootch than they could carry off the premises. They made themselves comfortable on the floor, near the stove, and the greatest night Minóok had known was ended. "Leiden oder triumphiren Hammer oder Amboss sein."
Whatever it was he saw off there, he could not meet it yet. He flung himself down with his face in the fire-weed, and lay there all night long. Kaviak was sent after him in the morning, but only to say, "Breakfast, Maudie's tent." The Boy saw that Mac and Potts knew.
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