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Mrs. Mullarkey gathered him up in her arms and kissed him. "Good-by, Jerry. You've brought good fortune to this family and put food into the mouths of my children and clothes on their backs when I couldn't see where they were to come from. You must love your mother hard for all the time she has been without you and your father, too."
"You hadn't mentioned them before," said Whiteface, "but they'll see it, too. Are there any more in the Mullarkey family?" "No," answered Jerry, "just Danny and Chris and Nora and Celia Jane and Kathleen and Mother 'Larkey."
"I've never been able to make both ends meet since Dan died." "She couldn't make them meet so's to give us money to buy tickets to the circus," Jerry explained corroboratively to his father. "You'll have to come to it eventually, Mrs. Mullarkey," warned the County Overseer. "This is a good chance for Celia Jane. The Thompsons are well fixed; they'll give her a fine home and a good education."
"Yes, I am his father and I am a clown in a circus," replied Whiteface. "Mr. Darner is the County Overseer of the Poor," Mrs. Mullarkey explained. "He's been at me to give Jerry up and let him take him to the poor farm ever since my Dan died." "It's for your own good and your children's and Jerry's, too, if you weren't too blind to see it," the Overseer stated.
He felt that this new friend's words, "That will have to be looked into," meant almost as much as though he had said, "I'll see that nothing of the sort happens." His body was still shaken, at longer and longer intervals, by shuddering sobs, but when the Mullarkey home was reached, they had subsided and he was enjoying the unaccustomed buggy ride. Mrs.
"Oh, you are my own darling, loving Gary!" she cried in a voice that was tearful, but very joyful through the tearfulness, while she almost squeezed the breath out of Jerry again. "And now we must go at once and thank kind, good Mrs. Mullarkey for caring for our boy." "Yes," said her husband. "The circus is out and we will have time before the evening performance."
"There's Danny on the el'funt and Chris too!" "For land sakes!" cried Mrs. Mullarkey. "Nothing has happened to any of the children, has there?" "We're all right, Mother 'Larkey!" Jerry assured her. "Nothing at all, madam," said Whiteface approaching her, "except that Jerry Elbow has found his parents." Mrs. Mullarkey stared at Whiteface, too astounded to speak.
"He said you'd get it away from me if you knew I had found it and for me to go to the circus all by myself." "And you gave that up just for Kathleen?" queried Mrs. Mullarkey. "I guess Kathleen's cough is much more important than any old circus," said Jerry. Mother 'Larkey thereupon gathered Jerry up in her arms and kissed him.
Mullarkey and Nora had finished washing the breakfast dishes. "Look, mother!" cried Chris, panting for breath after almost every word, "we've got tickets for the circus for helpin' carry water for the el'funts!" "Oh, how nice!" said Mrs. Mullarkey. "They will be tickets to paradise to you. Now you'll get to see the circus, after all. But you must be about starved."
"I'm running away," Jerry repeated and sat down on the ground by the fence where he had an unobstructed view of the circus. The Mullarkey children regarded Jerry for a long time without a word. Jerry, knowing that for once he had Danny at a disadvantage, wanted to prolong that pleasant sensation. "I'm running away," he repeated, without stirring from the fence. "What'll mother do?"
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