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"Ah, Westy Gaines would," Justine interposed lightly. "But if Mrs. Amherst is really the Bessy Langhope I used to know it must be rather a struggle for the wings!" Mrs. Dressel's flagging interest settled on the one glimpse of fact in this statement. "It's such a coincidence that you should have known her too! Was she always so perfectly fascinating?
"I'm glad you said that," I told him; "I forgot my two bucks." "I'll go back," Westy said; "you wait here." There wasn't any time to stop him and anyway, he can beat me running, I have to admit that. "Where did you leave it?" he called back. "I laid it right on the table," I shouted, "and I laid an oar-lock on it to keep it from blowing away. Feel around and you'll get It. Hurry up."
The kid was smiling, all confused, as if he didn't know what to do. "Come ahead over; don't be scared," Connie Bennett shouted. So then Skinny went over, kind of bashful and staring all around him, and sat down with the Elk patrol. Westy leaned over and whispered to me, "Can you beat that? His own patrol leader telling him not to be afraid to go and sit down with his own patrol!
Next she wants to practice a new fancy dance, and so on. She keeps Westy trottin' around, and Vee comin' and goin', and things stirred up gen'rally. One minute she's gigglin' hysterical over nothin' at all, and the next she's poutin' sulky.
They got him down the ladder and he accompanied them meekly to their little camp, hanging his head, and never speaking. Westy Martin, who clasped his arm, noticed that it still trembled, but otherwise he gave no sign of his hallucination and insane agitation. They pitied him, of course, but they could not repress a certain repugnance to him.
I just want to stay on the lake with you!" Westy said, "Just as you say." "Row along the north shore," I said, "I'd rather be here in the dark." "Just as you say," he said, awful nice and friendly like. We could hear them rowing across and talking. The lanterns looked like two little stars. One fellow said it would take a week to clear out the pit. I heard Mr.
"No, but that particular job is yours," Westy Martin insisted, "and we're on that job, if we go there at all." "That's a good argument," Pee-wee ejaculated. "Are you staying up there?" Connie asked. The stranger seemed pleased, even relieved. That uncertain, diffident smile hovered for a moment about his mouth. "I'd treat you right, that's sure," he said.
"Did you get it?" I asked him, but, of course, I knew he did. He was so much out of breath that he couldn't answer and even after he stopped he had to pant it out, kind of. "It wasn't there," he said. "Wasn't there!" I said; "you're crazy. Sure it was there. Where did you look?" "I looked just where you said," Westy panted, "and all around besides.
"One thing I'm glad of," Westy said, "and that is that somebody else gets the money; let them have all the credit, too. We had our fun while it lasted," he added wistfully. "And I'm glad Warde didn't count that trip for his first class badge. I'm glad we don't have anything to do with the bad side of it. It seems now just as if a friend had died, that's all."
I could see that Westy's face was kind of white and his lips were tight together and I knew be didn't intend to say anything. Now, I can tell you just exactly what Mr. Ellsworth said, because I remembered it and I wrote it down right afterwards. First I was afraid Westy would say something and I didn't want him to, because well, you'll see. So now I'll copy what Mr. Ellsworth said.
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