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So strong a hold did this fancy take upon the man's heart that he actually began to consider the feasibility of adopting the child and bringing him up as his own this, after he had by the aid of detectives, thoroughly searched out all that was known of him and found that no one owned Mikky nor seemed to care what became of him except Buck and his small following.
It was so that Mikky always had impressed a stranger even when his face was dirty and his feet were bare. The man stood with bowed head and looked upon the boy to whom he felt he owed a debt which he could never repay.
It was Jim who discovered the car coming up the orchard lane. "For de lub o' Mike!" he exclaimed aloud. "Ef here don't come Mikky hisse'f, and her! Hold up dar, Mister preacher. Don't tie de knot till dey gits here!" And a cheer arose loud and long and echoed through the trees and over the river to the sea. Three cheers for the love of Michael!
"The saints be praised!" she ejaculated warmly after she had looked around in silence for a moment "To think I should ivver see the loikes uv this in de alley. It lukes loike a palace. Mikky, ye're a Nangel, me b'y! An' a rale kurtin, to be shure! I ain't seen a kurtin in the alley since I cummed. An' will ye luke at the purty posy a blowin' as foine as ye plaze!
Starr had telegraphed her father she would reach Old Orchard in the morning. It was hard to have to go when, she was just returning. Michael wondered if it would always be so now. Buck roused at Michael's coming and smiled feebly. "Mikky! I knowed you'd come!" he whispered feebly. "I'm done for, pardner.
He's in a beautiful room lying on a great big white bed and he has everything nice around him, and when I came away he was sleeping. I can take him a message for you when I go in to-night, if you like." Half doubtfully the boy looked at him. "Will you tell Mikky to drop us down word ef he wants annythin'? Will you ast him ef he don't want us to git him out?"
"Say, Mikky," said Sam shyly, grasping Michael's hand convulsively, "me an' Lizzie sort o' made it up as how we'd get tied, an' we thought we'd do it now whiles everybody's at it, an' things is all fixed Lizzie she wanted me to ask you ef you 'sposed she'd mind, ef we'uns stood thur on the verandy whur yous did, arter you was gone?"
Mikky would a' stood by the gang, but you you've had a edicashun! They might go soft at college. I ain't much use fer edicated persons myself. But I'll give you a show ef you promise stiff not to snitch. We've got a big game on to-night up on Madison Avenue, an' we're a man short. Dere's dough in it if we make it go all right. Rich man. Girl goin' out to a party to-night.
"I'd be glad to help you Harkness," he said at last, "but I've got a private benevolence on my hands just now that is going to take a good deal of money, I'm afraid. You see we've narrowly escaped a tragedy at our house " and he launched into the story of the shooting, and his own indebtedness to Mikky.
It began to look as if there would not be any left over courses in the curriculum that might be given to some other deserving youth. Mikky would need them all.
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