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Course I suspects something worth lookin' at might be floatin' down the aisle; so I half swings around to get a view. And I'd no sooner got it than I wished I hadn't been so curious; for the next second there comes, shrillin' sharp and raspy above the dinin' room clatter, a free and happy hail. "Well, what do you know! Professor McCabe, ain't it!" Me I just sat there and gawped.
In a couple of minutes we ran softly alongside the bank, and the sail was silently lowered. The Chinese kept very quiet. Yellow Handkerchief sat down in the bottom alongside of me, and I could feel him straining to repress his raspy, hacking cough. Possibly seven or eight minutes later I heard Charley's voice as the Reindeer went past the mouth of the slough.
The warm, pitying look on his face ebbed away, hardened into his old, mask-like absence of expression. "No," he said quietly, "it would only be the beginning. Lord God, but this has been a day." He whirled about with a quick gesture of his hands, a harsh, raspy laugh that was very near a sob, and left her.
Whenever I got uncommon tired I played hookey, and the hiding I got next day done me good and cheered me up. So the longer I went to school the easier it got to be. I was getting sort of used to the widow's ways, too, and they warn't so raspy on me.
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