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He starts straightenin' up his desk as I goes out, as calm as though he was house cleanin' for a vacation. And while I'm tryin' to make up my mind how to deliver this document to the main stem and duck an ambulance ride afterwards, the directors' meetin' breaks up. So I finds Old Hickory alone in his private office and slips it casual on the pad in front of him.
"Trust me, lieutenant," says Barry, straightenin' up. "I shall stand by the pole." Sounds simple, don't it? But that's the way all us great minds work, along lines like that. And the foolisher we look at the start the deeper we're apt to be divin' after the plot of the piece. Don't miss that. What's a bent hairpin in the mud to you? While to us boy, page old Doc Watson.
"But hang it, Happy, you ought to savvy this place well enough by this time to know 'at no human ever has to set up an' beg for food. I'm glad to see you 'cause the little girl does set a heap by you, an' you seem to have a way o' straightenin' out the kinks. While you're eatin' breakfast see if you can't think up some way to get her to talkin' again."
"Whatever have you been putterin' about so long?" queried Ellen petulantly. "I was clearing up." "That's good. I guess the place needed it," sighed her aunt. "I warn't half through straightenin' things in the kitchen. I thought I heard you talkin'." "Heard me?" "Probably 'twas a notion. My head kinder buzzes."
"And you don't much care how you quit, so long's you quit; is that it?" "Well, suh, I don't want no trouble if I kin he'p it, but if I has to fight my way loose from Pitkin I'll do it." There was another long silence while Gabe waited. "I reckon Solomon would have his hands full straightenin' out this tangle," said Old Man Curry at last.
This was no publication of his actual secret, nor any indication of success, but was only a record that would in all probability remain unnoticed and unchallenged amidst the many other hopeful dreams of sanguine prospectors. But he was suddenly startled from his preoccupation. "Ye said ye war straightenin' up yer pack just now," said Collinson slowly. "Yes!" said Key almost angrily, "and I was."
You scorn mine; I find yours curiously entertaining. The best thing about you is that you seem to bring me good luck." "Don't trust that too far," says I. "I'm neither hump-backed, nor a live Billiken. How soon are you going to start on proposition Number Two?" "Ah!" says he, straightenin'. "That is the real business of the moment, isn't it?
And you thought you was safe, I cal'late. And then Bos'n turns up right in your own town, right acrost the road from you! By the big dipper! it's enough to make a feller believe that the Almighty does take a hand in straightenin' out such things, when us humans bungle 'em it is so!
"No; but I'm ready for 'em now," says I. "That is, if Say, you don't mind doin' this, do you?" "Why should I?" says she. "Oh, well," says I, "you see I ain't well, I'm kind of outclassed here, and I didn't know but some of the other girls might " "Let them dare!" says Miss Vee, straightenin' up and glancin' around haughty. My! but she's a thoroughbred!
"Toothpick stoops down for the Red Dog man's gun, an' what do you- all think? He don't have no weapon, none whatever; nothin' more vig'rous than a peaceful flask of whiskey, which the same is still all safe in his r'ar pocket. "'He warn't heeled! says Toothpick, straightenin' up an' lookin' at us apol'getic an' disgusted.
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