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Updated: May 1, 2025
The trombonists were evidently very much at ease. They, too, were laughing. Little pleasantries filtered through the crack in the heavy door that made me hold my breath. Then I heard the gurgle of cider poured into a glass, followed swiftly by what I took to be unmistakably a kiss. It was all as plain now as Su-Tum-Tum. I dared not break in upon them.
Finally he dried his eyes on the sleeve of his blouse, for he was wheezing with laughter, took a sip from his glass, and resumed: "Well, the saints did not desert us. Ah, mais non! For about four o'clock in the afternoon the captain sighted Su-Tum-Tum." "Sighted what?" I exclaimed. "Eh ben! Su-Tum-Tum," he replied. "Where had you drifted? To the Corean coast?"
"Mais non," he retorted, annoyed at my dullness to comprehend. "We were saved comprenez-vous? for there, to starboard, lay Su-Tum-Tum as plain as a sheep's nose." "England? Impossible!" I returned. "Mais parfaitement!" he declared, with a hopeless gesture. "Su-Tum-Tum," he reiterated slowly for my benefit. "Never heard of it," I replied.
"Understand that I have done it for the little girl and you. Is that plain?" "Perfectly," I replied. "As plain as Su-Tum-Tum!" I added under my breath as I filled his empty glass in gratefulness to the brim. "Halt!" shouted the general as the happiest of Suzettes turned toward her kitchen. "Eh um!" he mumbled awkwardly in a voice that had suddenly grown thick.
"Ah!" ejaculated the mayor, leaning back in his chair with a broad smile of satisfaction. "You see, I was right, Su-Tum-Tum. Eh ben! Do you know," he said gently as I left him, "when you first came to Pont du Sable there were times then, my poor friend, when I could not understand a word you said in French." Then, as if a sudden thought had struck him, he called me back as he closed the gate.
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