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Updated: May 13, 2025
Now what do you say?" Galusha rose and picked up his hat from the floor. "I'm afraid I must say no," he said, quietly, but with a firmness which even Raish Pulcifer's calloused understanding could not miss. "I could not think of accepting, really." "But, say, Perfessor " "No, Mr. Pulcifer. I could not." "But why not?
That book of William Shakespeare's stood easily first in their estimation, for when the "perfessor" read from it, they somehow understood the story, in spite of the hard words which, taken by themselves, seemed to mean nothing at all.
"I didn't think of it all by myself," he bleated. "It was what the Dawn woman said, and then when I mentioned that I had some grudges agin' the same parties she wrote the notes, and the perfessor planned the rest, so't we could both get even. But it wasn't my notion. I reckon he mesmerized me into it. I ain't to blame. Them mesmerists has awful powers."
And the boy wakened from his dreams always to say: "Gimme a cigarette!" and to reach over and pull the lever of his music-box, and add: "Perfessor, give us a tune! Hen, the professor says he won't play unless you give me a cigarette for him." One night, after a long wrangle which ended in a discourse by the "father," a strange thing happened.
From time to time he felt of their pulses, and nodded his head as if satisfied. "Is the beef tea ready?" asked the old man, after a half hour had passed. "It am, Perfessor." "Then turn down the flame a bit so it will keep the stuff warm, and come back into the work shop with me. I want to get that last bolt in the engine." "Are dem young gen'men all hunky-dory?"
No one can tell the difference on the corpse. There's going to be no blood anywhere. I will be found dead in my house in the morning with heart failure, or else he will be picked up dead in the street, far enough away so as to make no talk." Or they was words to that effect. He is rubbing it in considerable, I thinks, that perfessor is. I wonder if I better jump in and stop the hull thing.
As to the third, those wheels are parts of my great invention. But I will tell you about that after a while. I must give you some medicine now, and something to eat. Here, Washington!" "Comin', Perfessor!" Jack and Mark were more surprised than before when they saw a big colored man, seemingly as strong as an ox, coming toward them with two steaming bowls of beef broth.
Gettin' absent-minded like the old perfessor what picked up a hairbrush instead of a lookin'-glass to see if he needed shavin'. He was dum' near scared to death to see how his beard was growin'." And Overland chuckled as he turned out the lights. He could not go to sleep at once. He missed the desert night the spaces and the stars. "I left here in a hurry once," he muttered.
"Come, Gregory, it's time to close" a voice at my elbow. It was Breasted's assistant, a little, curious man who reminded me of my sky-pilot at Sydney. He, also, wore a black, long-tailed coat. He was known as "the perfessor." "You've been standing here as quiet as a crane for three hours." "How much do you want for this book?" "A quarter ... for you!"
Then everybody picked up books and wraps and note-books and said, "Good-by, 'Perfessor!" and went off. Father and Sylvia and Judith went out in the garden to the hotbed to pick the lettuce for supper and then back in the kitchen to get things ready.
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