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'the well-known club woman' that Mrs. Helen Wyot Lamson that always has her name spelled out in full? Your ma is getting public recognition fur her money, and look at Pishy. What's she gone and done while you been laxin' about? Why, she's got engaged to a lord, or just as good. Look at the prospects she's got! She'll enter the aristocracy of England and have a title. But look at you!
A person's name is what their folks name 'em, ain't it? Your ma comes acrost a name in a book that she likes the looks of, and she takes it to spell Pish, and she ups and names you Pish, and we all calls you Pish and Pishy, and then when you toddle off to public school and let 'em know how you spell it they tell you it's something else an outlandish name if spellin' means anything.
If it comes to that you ought to change the spellin' instead of the name that your poor pa loved." Yet the old man had come to know that he was fighting a lost fight, lost before it had ever begun. "It will be a good chance," ventured Mrs. Bines, timidly, "for Pishy I mean Sike Sicky to meet the right sort of people." "Yes, I should say and the wrong sort.
And your ma'll have to take in boarders, and do washin' like as not, and think of poor Pishy prob'ly she'll have to teach school or clerk in a store poor Pish she'll be lucky now if she can marry some common scrub American out in them hills like as not one of them shoe-clerks in the Boston Cash Store at Montana City!
Yes, I do recall this family. There is a daughter, you say?" "Yes; Miss Psyche Bines." "Psyche; ah, yes; it's the same family. I recollect perfectly now. You know they tell the funniest tales of them out there. Her mother found the name 'Psyche' in a book, and liked it, but she pronounced it 'Pishy, and so the girl was called until she became old enough to go to school and learned better."
"Of course I don't matter. Maybe I can hold a drill, or tram ore, or something, but I can't support your ma and Pishy like they ought to be, with my rheumatiz comin' on again, too.
"Good; I didn't think you had so much gambler in you." "It's fur a worthy purpose, son. And it seems too bad that Pishy can't pull out something with her bit, when it's to be had so easy. From what that spangle-faced beau of hers tells me there's got to be some expensive plumbing done in that castle he gets sawed off on to him."
But, now, I been kind of lookin' over the ground since I come here, and it's struck me you ain't been gettin' enough for your money. You've spent free, but the goods ain't been delivered. I'm talkin' about yourself. Both your ma and Pishy has got more out of it than you have. Why, your ma gets her name in the papers as a philanthropist along with that how do the papers call her?
That telegram from Coplen is concernin' of a lady a party that was with him when he died. The press report sent out that the young and beautiful Mrs. Bines was with her husband, and was prostrated with grief. Your ma and Pishy was up to Steamin' Springs at the time, and I kep' it from them all right." "But how was he entangled? to what extent?" "That's what we'll get more light on in the morning.
He'd be jest as bad give him a little time; and Pishy engaged to a damned fortune-hunting Englishman into the bargain. It's all Higbee said it was, only it goes double. Say, Billy, I been thinkin' this over all night." "'Tis mighty worryin', ain't it, Uncle Peter?" "And I got it thought out." "Sure, you must 'a' got it down to cases." "Billy, listen now. There's a fellow down in Wall Street.
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