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I I want to ask you somethin'. I want you to do somethin' for me, will you?" "Sartin sure I will. What is it?" Mary-'Gusta glanced at Isaiah's face. "I'd I'd rather tell you, just you alone," she said. "Please come into the sittin'-room." She tugged at his hand. Much puzzled, he followed her through the dining-room and into the sitting-room. "Well, Mary-'Gusta," he said, kindly, "now what is it?
"I had wondered how the things were carried away. Well?" "Well," continued Rube, "after that, he went through the sittin'-room t' escape by the front door. He looked around the room an' caught sight of the cigarettes and tobacco. Before decidin' which ter take, he thought he'd try one of the cigarettes, so he smoked one, leavin' the scent of it hangin' in the air.
And he telephoned me at two o'clock to say that the four hundred dollar packet was layin' on his sittin'-room table just where I left it when he and I parted company four days or so ago. That's how I KNOW Jed didn't find it." From the shadowy corner where Ruth Armstrong sat came a little gasp and an exclamation. Charles whistled. "Well, by George!" he exclaimed.
There! let's go into the sittin'-room a few minutes and give Zuba a chance to clear off. Sam's tendin' store and his dinner can wait a spell; judgin' by the time he took for breakfast he hadn't ought to be hungry for the next week."
I daresay yo can give him a cup of tay and see to t' fire i' t' sittin'-room. I believe he's come to have a bit of talk wi' me about summat important from what his lordship said."
Lennard went in, and as the door closed he said: "Mr Bowcock, my name is Lennard " "I thou't it might be," interrupted the other. "You'll be Lord Westerham's friend. I had a wire from his lordship's morning telling me t' expect you to-night or to-morrow morning. You'll excuse t' kitchen for a minute while t' missus makes up t' fire i' t' sittin'-room."
Only think of it a grown man spending his time flat on his stomach in the woods counting ants' legs and bugs' eyes!" "Oh, but " The stranger stopped. The hotel-keeper had the floor. "It began when he wa'n't more'n a baby. He pestered the life out of his mother bringing snakes into the sittin'-room, and carrying worms in his pockets. The poor woman was most mortified to death about it.
He would have even avoided his taciturn landlord as he drove up to the door; but that functionary waylaid him on the steps. "There's a lady in the sittin'-room, waitin' for ye." Mr. Prince hurried upstairs, and entered the room as Mrs. Starbottle flew toward him. She had changed sadly in the last ten years. Her figure was wasted to half its size.
"I thought I heard thee talking to some one," she remarked. "Isn't thee ever going to get through with those pots and pans, Peggy? Let me help thee. We want thee to come in with us." "Now you all jest go right erlong," spoke Sukey, who had followed Sally into the room. "Yer ma, she come up and she say, 'Tell Miss Peggy dat she am wanted in de sittin'-room right now. Jest go right erlong, chile.
He wasn't in the sittin'-room, but we seen him smokin' in the small room off'n the parlor. So we just went in on him. "He acted mean right from the start hollered at Mrs. Hull what was we doin' there. She up an' told him, real civil, that we wanted to talk the business over an' see if we couldn't come to some agreement about it. He kep' right on insultin' her, an' one thing led to another. Mrs.
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