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Why, one night don't ye remember? when he came home, carryin', mebbee, more canvas than was seamanlike, and you shet him out the house, and laid for him with a broomstick, or one o' them crokay mallets, I disremember which, and he kem over to me, ole Captain Dick, and I sez to him, sez I, 'Why, Roger, them's only love pats, and yer condishun is such ez to make any woman mad-like. Why, Lord bless ye! there ain't enny of them mootool differences you and him hed ez I doesn't knows on, and didn't always stand by, and lend ye a hand, and heave in a word or two of advice when called on."
"Young man," continued Dick, with drunken gravity, "mebbee you're accustomed to Charlotte rusks and blue mange; mebbee ye can't eat unless your grub is got up by one o' them French cooks'? Yet WE us boys yar in this camp calls that pie a good a com-pe-tent pie!" The stranger again disclaimed anything but a general dislike of that form of pastry.
Perhaps his vanity was slightly flattered by his companion's faith in him; perhaps he was not free from a certain human curiosity to know the rest; perhaps he was more interested than he cared to confess in the helpless home-seeker beside him. "But you must tell me something more of yourself, and your fortune and prospects. They'll be sure to ask questions." "Mebbee they won't.
"I've bin thinkin'," said Collinson, raising his eyes to his captor with a singularly new and shy admiration in them, "mebbee not so much of WOT you said, ez HOW you said it, and it's kinder bothered me, sittin' here, that I ain't bin actin' to you boys quite on the square.
Mebbee it's Gus Gildersleeve; mebbee it's Harry Benham; mebbee," he added, with a dark yet noble disinterestedness, "it's ME." "Oh, no," said Clarence, with polite deprecation. Far from placating the gloomy Jim, this seemed only to awake his suspicions.
"Ef Rosey," he continued, "hez read in vy'ges and tracks in Eyetalian and French countries of such chaps ez you and kalkilates you're the right kind to tie to, mebbee it mout hev done if you'd been livin' over thar in a pallis, but somehow it don't jibe in over here and agree with a ship and that ship lying comf'able ashore in San Francisco.
Ford, that there wasn't any place for ME thar; and it kem to me, too and a little rough like that mebbee there wasn't any place there for MY Cress either! So I rode away without disturbin' you nor the birds nor the squirrels. Talkin' with Cress that night, she said ez how it was a fair sample of what happened every day, and that you'd always treated her fair like the others.
He stopped, glanced round the handsome room, and added darkly, "Mebbee better than this." With the memory of Hooker's characteristic fondness for mystery still in his mind, Clarence overlooked the innuendo, and said smilingly, "Why didn't you bring Mrs. Hooker here? I should have been honored with her company." Mr. Hooker frowned slightly at this seeming levity.
Meantime the children had reached the goal and stood before the opening of one of the tunnels. Then these four heroes who had looked with cheerful levity on the deadly peril of their descent became suddenly frightened at the mysterious darkness of the cavern and turned pale at its threshold. "Mebbee a wicked Joss backside holee, he catchee Pilats," said Wan Lee gravely.
I sez to myself: 'Others might be tempted by a plump, well-lookin' widder, but not Johnnie. Ye see, boys, Johnnie ain't quite the same as you an' me." "Not quite," said Ajax. "Mebbee ye've wondered why I sot sech store by Johnnie. Wal I'll tell ye. Johnnie's paw an' me was brothers an' pardners afore the war.
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