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Tom Teeter, who worked the farm upon which The Dale stood, and lived only a few hundred yards from the Gordons. Mr. Teeter was an Irishman, with a fine gift for speech-making. He was much sought after, for tea-meetings and during political campaigns, and had won the proud alliterative name of Oro's Orator.
Teeter did when she recounted her troubles of the early pioneer days, or when Oro's Orator had been fighting again. So to John and Elizabeth the robin of the duchess tree was known as "Granny Teeter." They listened to him now, complaining away to the pink apple-blossoms; and, knowing it was very wicked and dangerous to laugh just then, they held themselves in convulsions of silent mirth.
Without doubt it was nightmare, and I would say nothing to them about it for fear of mockery. Yet two nights later Oro came again and after the usual preliminaries, said: "Humphrey, this night we will visit that mighty American nation, of which you have told me so much, and the other Neutral Countries." Arbuthnot's M.S., so Oro's reflections on the Neutral Nations, if any, remain unrecorded.
"I am not sure, Beloved," she answered in a sweet and gentle voice, "who do not know all Oro's secrets, but as I think, great things. We are now deep in the bowels of the world, and presently, perhaps, you will see some of its mighty forces whereof your ignorant races have no knowledge, doing their everlasting work." "Then how is it that we can breathe here?" I asked.
"He will prevent it!" raved Bastin. "Even now He commands me to prevent it, and I obey!" Then, drawing the revolver from his pocket, he pointed it at Oro's breast, adding: "Swear not to commit this crime, or I will kill you!" "So the man of peace would become a man of blood," mused Oro, "and kill that I may not kill for the good of the world?
"Don't you tell your opinion about the Deluge or he may cause another just to show that you are wrong," called Bickley after him. "I can't help that," answered Bastin. "Certainly I shall not hide the truth to save Oro's feelings, if he has got any. If he revenges himself upon us in any way, we must just put up with it like other martyrs."
I don't think it a laughing matter, since such remarks do not seem to me to indicate any real change in Oro's heart, which is what I was trying to effect." Bickley, who was convulsed with merriment, wiped his eyes and said: "You dear old donkey, don't you see what you have done, or rather would have done if there were a word of truth in all this ridiculous story about a deluge?
Indeed, I dared not do so until I was sure of Oro's approval. Towards evening they departed in their canoes, leaving behind them the usual ample store of provisions. We cooked our meal as usual, only to discover that what Yva had said about the Life-water was quite true, since we had but little appetite for solid food, though this returned upon the following day.
I shrugged my shoulders while we seated ourselves, the Lady Yva and I on Oro's right, Bickley and Bastin on his left, as he indicated by pointing with his finger. "What say you of this city?" Oro asked after a while of me. "We do not know what to say," I replied. "It amazes us. In our world there is nothing like to it."
Donjalolo, methinks I see thee fallen upon by assassins: which of thy fathers riseth to the rescue? I see thee dying: which of them telleth thee what cheer beyond the grave? But they have gone to the land unknown. Meet phrase. Where is it? Not one of Oro's priests telleth a straight story concerning it; 'twill be hard finding their paradises.
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