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Armstrong speak of having a brother, and he wondered vaguely why. However, he did not wonder long on this particular occasion. "Humph!" he grunted. "Well, let's see. I tell you: I'll be your step-uncle. That'll do, won't it? You've heard of step-fathers? Um-hm. Well, they ain't real fathers, and a step-uncle ain't a real uncle. Now you think that over and see if that won't fix it first-rate."
In some ways he honestly considered himself a model to mankind. And then he had recalled certain information received in childhood from authoritative persons about the merciful goodness of God. His childhood had been rather ceremoniously religious, for his step-uncle, the Lieutenant-General, was a great defender of Christianity as well as of the British Empire.
The child thought it over. "And shall I call you 'Step-Uncle Jed'?" she asked. "Eh? . . . Um. . . . No-o, I guess I wouldn't. I'm only a back step-uncle, anyway I always come to the back steps of your house, you know so I wouldn't say anything about the step part. You ask your ma and see what she says."
He took care to delete every vestige of animation from his tone and manner, and so radical a change did this effect that his step-uncle blinked. A man as keen as John M. Hurd could not be blind to a mutation so great. He looked Mr. Wilkinson over with more care than he had ever employed before, for he recognized at once that this was no ordinary visit.
"So you are this young lady's uncle?" he inquired. It was Barbara who answered. "Not my really uncle," she announced. "He's just my make-believe uncle. He says he's my step-uncle 'cause he comes to our back steps so much. But he's almost better than a real uncle," she declared, emphatically. The major laughed heartily and said he was sure of it. He seemed to find the pair hugely entertaining.
Wise in his generation, Wilkinson left the work to the magic and sovereign forces now at play; he did not risk marring the alchemy by a single word. After a moment which seemed an hour he found himself once more confronted by the direct observation of his step-uncle. "You can have your trolley schedule," said John M. Hurd. "You are certainly entitled to it.
Her first marriage was with her full uncle; and her second, if marriage it can be called when her husband and Herod's wife were both living, was with her step-uncle, and thus triply unlawful. John's remonstrance awoke no sense of shame in her, but only malignant and murderous hate. Once resolved, no failures made her swerve from her purpose.
Late that afternoon, when Dick, just returned from the city, dropped into, as was his before-dinner custom, the office-study which had been set aside for Larry's use, Larry, after an adroit approach to his subject, continued: "And since I've been wished on you as a sort of step-uncle, there's something I'd like to suggest if I don't seem to be fairly jimmying my way into your affairs."
Long since, after a series of titanic but perfectly hopeless struggles, he had abandoned all direct attempts to borrow money from his opulent step-uncle; subsequent efforts to achieve indirectly the same result by a myriad of methods admirably subtle and of marked ingenuity had resulted only in equal failure.
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