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Updated: May 6, 2025
"Sue, dear, I'm right in the middle of my baking," Mrs. Carroll said, when Susan was eating a late lunch from the end of the kitchen table, "and here's a special delivery letter for Billy, and Billy's not coming over here to-night! Phil's taking Jimmy and Betts to the circus they hadn't been gone five minutes when this thing came!"
Timmy's hand closed on Phil's a firm, warm, dirty and somewhat calloused boy's hand that was unquestionably flesh, blood and bone. "Take it easy, Uncle Phil." Perhaps he had pushed too hard. The dancing eyes veiled themselves a little and the intangible, indescribable magnetism somehow faded.
Teddy jerked a significant thumb in the direction of Phil's former home. "Bear's got a grouch on a rod wide this morning." "Oh, you mean Uncle Abner," answered Phil, his face clouding. "Yep." "Why?" "I just dropped in to see if you were ready to go to school. He yelled at me like he'd gone crazy." "That all?" grinned the other boy. "No.
Falchion, Justine, and myself, on the morning of Phil Boldrick's death. He looked for a long time, and then, slowly descending the hillside, made his way to Mr. Devlin's office. He found Phil's pal awaiting him there. After a few preliminaries, the money was paid over, and Kilby said: "I've been to see his camping-ground. It's right enough.
"Good night," said Roy. He stood at the open door and watched Phil's figure disappear into the gloom of the rainy night that was coming on. "Told your folks a lie, did you?" he muttered after a time. "Well, that wasn't half as bad as stealing from them, and I " Without finishing the sentence, he closed the door of the carriage house.
As Kendrick finished speaking they both turned to watch Cranston approaching slowly, supporting Podmore. The secretary's condition had improved greatly under Phil's ministrations and the food which Mrs. Thorlakson had prepared for him. But it was apparent that he was still suffering from shock and beneath the bandage about his head the black and blue evidence of the contusion was visible.
At the same time, the persistent suspicions of the cattlemen, together with Patches' curious, and, in a way, secret interest in Yavapai Joe, could not but have a decided influence upon the young man who was responsible for the Dean's property. It was inevitable, under the circumstances, that Phil's attitude toward Patches should change, even as the character of Patches himself had changed.
Phil's rather aristocratic face had a long scratch that extended down the right side, and gave him a queer look; Jack was caressing a lump on his forehead, which he may have received from a tree, or else when he was knocked down without warning by that singular explosion; Andy was trying to quench a nose-bleed, and needed his face washed the worst way; Bluff's left eye seemed partly closed, as if he had been too close to the business end of an angry bee; while Bobolink had two or three small cuts about his face that made him look as if he had been trying to tattoo himself with wretched success.
At this outrage, Gertrude rose, and fell upon her brother tooth and nail. She was a powerful child, and at the shock of her onset, the seat of Phil's chair gave way, and he "sat through" like little Silver-hair, and came suddenly to the floor, his head and legs sticking up helplessly through the empty frame.
Kilby kept his word. He was liberal to Viking; and Phil's memory was drunk, not in silence, many times that day. So that when, in the afternoon, he made up his mind to keep his engagement with Mrs. Falchion, and left the valley for the hills, he was not entirely sober. But he was apparently good-natured.
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