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When he returned he looked thin and worried. He started nervously at trivial noises, and his eyes showed a furtive restlessness that quickly caused remark. "Why, Phineas, you don't look well!" Diantha exclaimed when she saw him. "Well? Oh, I'm well." "An' did you buy it that autymobile?" "I did." Phineas's voice was triumphant. Diantha's eyes sparkled. "Where is it?" she demanded.
"Phineas, what was that?" she shivered, when the voice had moaned into silence. Phineas's lips were dry, and his hands and knees were shaking; but his pride marched boldly to the front. "Why, that's the siren whistle, 'course," he chattered. "Ain't it great? I thought you'd like it!"
And Eli, the high priest, who sat upon a high throne at one of the gates, heard their mournful cries, and supposed that some strange thing had befallen his family. On the same day his son Phineas's wife died also, as not able to survive the misfortune of her husband; for they told her of her husband's death as she was in labor.
"Achin' ter ride in 'em," she had said and all that he could give her was this "shiftless old rig" that she so scorned. He remembered something else, too, and his face flamed suddenly red. It was Colonel Smith who owned and drove that automobile, and Colonel Smith, too, was a bachelor. What if Instantly in Phineas's soul rose a fierce jealousy.
And he tore up Phineas's letter and, during his convalescence, devoted himself to the study of European politics, a subject which he had scandalously neglected during his elegantly leisured youth. The day of his discharge came in due course. A suit of khaki took the place of the hospital blue.
Another person who refused to accept Phillips favorably was Phineas Babbitt. Phineas's bitterness was not the sort to sweeten over night. He disliked the new bank clerk and he told Jed Winslow why.
To Phineas it seemed that a cold hand clutched his heart. "Dianthy, you wouldn't really ride in one!" he faltered. Until that moment Diantha had not been sure that she would, but the quaver in Phineas's voice decided her. "Wouldn't I? You jest wait an' see!" And Phineas did wait and he did see.
There were several false moves on Phineas's part, and Diantha could not repress a slight scream and a nervous jump at sundry unexpected puffs and snorts and snaps from the throbbing thing beneath her. She gave a louder scream when Phineas, in his nervousness, sounded the siren, and a wail like a cry from the spirit world shrieked in her ears.
Doggie stuck out his hand like a monkey in the Zoo. "You selfish beast!" he said. The fighting went on and, to Doggie, the inhabitants of the outside world became almost as phantasmagorical as Phineas's providential aunt in Galashiels. Immediate existence held him. In an historic battle Mo Shendish fell with a machine bullet through his heart.
She sat the eyelashes drooping over her flushed cheeks perfectly silent. John's voice grew firmer, prouder; there was no hesitation now. "My calling is, as you will hear at Norton Bury, that of a tanner. I am apprentice to Abel Fletcher, Phineas's father." "Mr. Fletcher!" She looked up at him, with a mingled look of kindliness and pain. "Ay, Phineas is a little less beneath your notice than I am.
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