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Updated: May 26, 2025
"I am going to give you more material things, though, Silvia. When we go home, I shall start to work in earnest and see if I can't get enough ahead to make a good investment I know of." "I'd rather do without the necessities even, Lucien, than to have you work any harder than you have been doing. We must let well enough alone." "Too Much Polydores"
"As you have five sons, I have, agreeable to my promise, placed in your name in the First National Bank of your city the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars. "Your affectionate uncle, "Issachar Innes." "Huldah," I asked, "did you tell him the Polydores were our children?" "Me?" she repeated indignantly. "Me tell a lie like that! No; I didn't get no chance to tell him anything about them.
Miss Frayne still had not shown up, and I began to have misgivings lest the Polydores had locked her up in the house, but finally just as we were having a happy family gathering and discussing the new event under the shade of the one resort tree, she came excitedly up to us. "Such an interesting morning as I have had!" she exclaimed enthusiastically.
"Where in the world do you suppose he landed?" asked Rob. Just then the missing one came around the house clasping a bologna sausage in his fist. "Ye Gods and little Polydores!" exclaimed Rob. I caught Diogenes by the arm and rushed him in to Silvia. I found her in company with an old colored mammy, who was laundress for the hotel.
"He was sore," declared Beth, "because you and Lucien wouldn't take him with you on the fishing trip. He was moping by himself all the morning." "Trying to think up some new deviltry," I theorized, "to make us feel bad." "No," asserted Silvia, "I think he really misses the boys. The Polydores, for all their scrappings, are very clannish. But how do you suppose he got down to Windy Creek?"
"For two reasons. First, because your friend Rob said you'd get better results for copy more inspirations and thrills, if you weren't behind the scenes on the ghost business, and then we didn't want to tell you about the presence of the Polydores lest inadvertently you betray the fact to my wife. Now, proceed, Ptolemy."
Silvia had just finished telling me that merely to be away from the Polydores was Paradise enough for her, and that she didn't care very much about the woods, anyway the lake was sufficient, when her optimism was rudely jolted by the shrill, shudder-sending song of the festive mosquito. She fled into the parlor.
Silvia's eyes and mine had met in speechless horror since she had mentioned the "writing woman." "Lucien!" Silvia now said in a tragic, hoarse whisper "the Polydores!" "Oh, do you know them?" asked Miss Frayne. "Dr. Felix Polydore, the eminent LL.D. or something like that." "The whole family are D's," I said. "His wife is the highest of high-brows, and they are averse to interviews.
"Rob and I will take all the Polydores save Diogenes, and go home tomorrow and prepare the house and Huldah for the overflow. Then you two can come on with Diogenes the next day." "Good idea, Beth!" I approved. "I'd hate to face Huldah, unprepared, with the return of the Polydores en masse." "I am glad," said Silvia, "that Huldah has been having a rest from them for a few days."
This plan was the admission of the Polydores, en masse, to one of the Sunday schools. She chose the church most remote from home so they would be a long time going and coming, which she said would "help some." "Now," said Beth, as she watched them march away, "I can dare to tell you where we spent last evening. We were at the Polydore house next door.
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