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Updated: May 26, 2025
"Silvia," I said abruptly, as I came into our room, "we must really make some immediate plan for disposing of the Polydores, or, at least, of 'Them Three." "Huldah is managing them tolerably well," demurred Silvia. "Since they depreciated in market value from five thousand per to nothing, she has resumed her former harsh treatment of them."
"A strenuous day? Two in rapid 'concussion' with the Polydores must be nerve-racking." "Yes; I admit there seemed to be 'too much Polydores. We all had a happy reunion, and I devoted the forenoon to the entertainment of the famous family so I could be entitled to the afternoon off to spend with Beth. At noon we built a fire and cooked a sumptuous dinner.
"Well, you think some wonderful things happened to you all on your trip mebby ghosts and proposals," looking at Beth and Rob, "and fires and Polydores, but back here in this quiet house something happened that has your ghosts and things skinned by a mile." "Oh, dear!" cried Silvia apprehensively, "what is it?" "Break it very gently, Huldah," I cautioned. "You know we've borne a good deal."
Throughout dinner Rob remained in high spirits. He kept eyeing Beth in a way that disconcerted her, and then suddenly he would smile with the expression of one who knows something funny, but intends to keep it a secret. Presently Silvia left us and went upstairs to give Diogenes a bath before she put him to bed. "You've had two days' freedom from the last of the Polydores," I called after her.
She was a lover of music and we had no piano. She yearned to ride and she had no horse. We both had longings for a touring-car and we wanted to travel. "I've thought of a scheme for a little respite from the sight and sound of the Polydores," I remarked one day. "We'll enter them in the public school. There are four more weeks yet before the long summer vacation."
When Rob and I, with our camping outfit, drove off through the woods, Ptolemy's eyes followed us so enviously and he pleaded so eloquently to be taken with us that Rob was actually on the point of considering it. "See here, Rob Rossiter!" I exclaimed, "This is my vacation and all I came to this God-forsaken place for was to escape the Polydores. If he goes, I stay.
This opening, of course, was the wedge that let in other Polydores, and thereafter we seldom sat down to a meal without the presence of one or more members of the illustrious and famished family, who made themselves as entirely at home as would a troop of foraging soldiers.
But will you please account for the phenomenon of the utter absence of Polydores at the present period? Has Huldah at last carried out her oft-repeated threat of exterminating the Polydore race?" "Pythagoras," explained Silvia dejectedly, "has gone to the doctor's. He broke his wrist this morning. Diogenes is lost and Emerald has gone to look for him " "Oh, why hunt him up?" I remonstrated.
Presently Huldah returned from the Sunday school with triumphant mien. "They made them all into one class and put a redheaded woman with spectacles in for their teacher. I gave them street car tickets to come home on." When the Polydores returned, however, they were dragging Diogenes along and he looked quite weary. "Didn't you come home on the street car?" I asked Ptolemy.
"Even if they did," I declared, "as a choice between them and the Polydores I would say, 'Oh, Mosquito, where is thy sting?" A Flirt and a Woman-Hater The next morning I arose early and screened in the little birdhouse balcony. There was a large piece of netting left and Silvia converted it into a robe and headgear for the swaddling of Diogenes.
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