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Updated: June 1, 2025
It was like this. Here the other mornin', as I'm sittin' placid at my desk dictatin' routine correspondence into a wax cylinder that's warranted not to yank gum or smell of frangipani sittin' there dignified and a bit haughty, like a highborn private sec. ought to, you know who should come paddin' up to my elbow but the main wheeze, Old Hickory Ellins. "Son," says he, "can any of that wait?"
Which Cyril does, movin' as solemn and dignified as if he was usherin' at a funeral. Then there's a stage wait for three or four minutes before the fish is brought in, Cyril paddin' around ponderous with the plates. Doris beckons him up and demands in a whisper: "Where is Helma?" "Helma, ma'am," says he, "is taking the evening out." "But " begins Doris, then stops and bites her lip.
"Doc, he's paddin' along!" warned Copple. "Smoke some of them shells!" Straining every nerve I aimed as before, only a little in advance, held tight and pulled at the same instant. The bear doubled up in a ball and began to roll down the slide. He scattered the leaves. Then into the thicket he crashed, knocking the oaks, and cracking the brush. "Some shot!" yelled Copple. "He's your bear!"
"But I think he will. The parson likes to hit from the pulpit when no one kin hit back." "Is that what brought you to church to-day? You seldom darken the door." "Sure! What else should I come fer? I'm not like you, Bill Flanders, wearin' out me shoes paddin' to church every Sunday. I kin be jist as good a Christian an' stay at home. I kin read me Bible an' say me prayers there."
I'd loaded him into an elevator and was strollin' through the waitin'-room, when Old Hickory comes paddin' out as slinky as a man of his weight can. "Young man," says he, "where is that Captain person?" "About the tenth floor by now, sir," says I. "Bring him back," says Mr. Ellins, sharp and snappy. "Through the private entrance. Understand?"
Ye see what put him on the wrang scent was a notion 'at I had put it some gait. He kent 'at if she'd hod it, the kitchen maun be the place, but he thocht she'd gi'en it to me to hod. He came upon't by accident. It was aneath the paddin' o' her chair." Here, I thought, was the end of the glove incident, but I was mistaken.
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