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When the Virginian felt that he had Frank cornered he was astonished to see Merriwell slip under his arm and come up laughing behind him. Merriwell's laughter filled Diamond's very soul with gall and wormwood. "Wait!" he thought. "He laughs best who laughs last." "Give it to him, Frank!" urged Rattleton. "You'll get out of wind dodging about, and then it will not be so easy to finish him off."
But when Frank came to consider everything, he decided that it was no more than fair that he should give his persistent foe a certain amount of punishment. Again and again Frank cross countered and upper-cut Diamond, and gradually he came to strike harder as the Virginian forced the fighting, without showing signs of letting up. Bruises and swellings began to appear on Diamond's face.
And when daddy stops drinking beer and nasty gin with turpentine in it, father says, then mammy will be so happy, and look so pretty! and daddy will be so good to baby! and baby will be as happy as a swallow, which is the merriest fellow! And Diamond will be so happy too! And when Diamond's a man, he'll take baby out with him on the box, and teach him to drive a cab."
When I add to this that Diamond's mother was but poorly, for a new baby was coming, you will see that these were not very jolly times for our friends in the mews.
Diamond's father gave the ladies a ticket with his name and address printed on it; and then Mrs. Coleman took out her purse, saying: "And what's your fare, Joseph?" "No, thank you, ma'am," said Joseph. "It was your own old horse as took you; and me you paid long ago."
All at once Diamond thought it was saying its prayers, and he ought not to be staring at it so. He ran to the stable to see his father make Diamond's bed. Then his father took him in his arms, carried him up the ladder, and set him down at the table where they were going to have their tea. "Miss is very poorly," said Diamond's father.
Our Diamond's a gentleman." "I don't mean to say he isn't, father; for I daresay some gentlemen judge their neighbours unjustly. That's all I mean. Diamond shouldn't have thought such bad things of Ruby. He didn't try to make the best of him." "How do you know that, pray?" "I heard them talking about it one night." "Who?" "Why Diamond and Ruby. Ruby's an angel." Joseph stared and said no more.
A good-sized diamond's the obvious sort of thing: advertises itself for what it is, and that's what we want. You'll wear it, as much as to say, 'I was engaged like everybody else. But if there wasn't a reason against it, this is what I should like to put on your finger." As he spoke, he hid the spark of light in his other hand, and from the pocket whence it had come produced another ring.
"I'm a stupid old horse, who can't brush his own coat; but there's my young godson on my back, cleaning me like an angel." I won't vouch for what the old horse was thinking, for it is very difficult to find out what any old horse is thinking. "Oh dear!" said Diamond when he had done, "I'm so tired!" And he laid himself down at full length on old Diamond's back.
He is no good for the hansom I drive, for when folks take a hansom, they want to drive like the wind. But for a four-wheeler that takes families and their luggage, he's the very horse. I bought him cheap and I'll sell him cheap." "Oh, I don't want him," said Diamond's father. "Well, come and see him anyway," said his friend. So he went.
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