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I wa'n't takin' much hand in the matter either way, though my feelin's was with the Tenaker party. I know 't would come to a point where some money 'd prob'ly have to be used, an' I made up my mind I wouldn't do much drivin' myself unless I had to, an' not then till the last quarter of the heat. Wa'al, it got to lookin' like a putty even thing.
"Wa'al," said David with a grin, "Purse went on to allow 't he guessed somebody's pocketbook had ben talkin', but I didn't say much of anythin', an' putty soon come away. Two three days after," he continued, "I see Tenaker agin. 'I hear Staples has gone out o' town, he says, 'an' I hear, too, he says, 'that he's kind o' soured on the hull thing didn't care much how it did come out.
After the meetin' was over, the moderator says to Jones, "Brother Jones," he says, "what did you say to Brother Smith to-night that shut him up so quick?" "I ast him fer a dollar for For'n Missions," says Brother Jones, 'an', wa'al, I says to Tenaker, 'that's what I done to Staples." "Did Mr. Tenaker see the point?" asked John, laughing.
Miss Verjoos was sitting with her elbows on the arm of her chair, her cheek resting upon her clasped hands and her dusky eyes were fastened upon his face. As the song concluded she rose and walked away. Mrs. Tenaker came over to the piano and put out her hand. "Thank you so much for your singing, Mr. Lenox," she said. "Would you like to do an old woman a favor?"
"Mit deinen blauen Augen," he hummed, keeping time with his hands, but at this point Miss Clara came across the room, followed by her sister. "Mrs. Tenaker," she said, laughing, "asked me to ask you, Mr. Lenox, if you wouldn't please sing something they could understand." "I have a song I should like to hear you sing," said Miss Verjoos.
"Very much so," said John, smiling and looking first at Mrs. Tenaker and then about the room, "but there are no old women here as far as I can see." "Very pretty, sir, very pretty," she said, looking very graciously at him. "Will you sing Annie Laurie for me?" "With all my heart," he said, bowing. He looked at Herr Schlitz, who shook his head. "Let me play it for you," said Mrs.
"We shall have to wait developments to decide that point, I should say," replied Mrs. Benson. "I suppose that fifth place was put on the off chance that Mr. Benson might be of our party, but," she said, with a short laugh, "he is probably nine fathoms deep in a flirtation with Sue Tenaker. He shares Artemas Ward's tastes, who said, you may remember, that he liked little girls big ones too."
What little show I had made was if anythin' on the Purse side. One day Tenaker come in to see me an' wanted to know flat-footed which side the fence I was on.
"'Wa'al, I says, 'when he comes back you c'n use your own judgment about havin' a little interview with him. Mebbe somethin' 's made him think the's two sides to this thing. But anyway, I says, 'I guess he won't do no more hollerin'. "'How's that? says Tenaker. "'Wa'al, I says, 'I guess I'll have to tell ye a little story. Mebbe you've heard it before, but it seems to be to the point.
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