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Gibney confided to McGuffey that it was a toss-up whether the old man was meditating murder or suicide. In fact, so depressed was Captain Scraggs that he lacked absolutely the ambition to "rag" his associates; observing which Mr. McGuffey vouchsafed the opinion that perhaps Scraggsy was "teched a mite in his head-block." "Don't you think it," Mr. Gibney warned.
Doane has had him for years and years. And James, the butler, came with him from England. He was in the house of a duke over there, and I assure you, Miss Doane, he doesn't forget it." "Is that the man who stands around as if he was afraid he'd hurt something if he teched it? I ain't seen him do much; another man gave me my breakfast."
He had hard work gittin' her home, an' Uncle Billy hain't teched a drap since." And the old mountaineer chuckled again. All the time Hale could hear noises from the kitchen inside. The old step-mother was abed, he had seen no other woman about the house and he wondered if the child could be cooking dinner. Her flushed face answered when she opened the kitchen door and called them in.
"To-day this even'. I have sent Eph after him an' I hope he has found him by now an' tuck him somewhere. Eph'll never stop till he does." "We must find him, Jack. Cap'n Tom alive thank God alive, even if he is teched in his head. Oh, God, I might a knowed it an' only to-day I was doubtin' You." He fell on his knees and Jack stood awed in the presence of the great emotion which shook the old man.
"I don't see why we haint thought out sooner," said Aunt Hildy; "you see folks are ready, waitin', only they don't know whar to begin such work, and now there's Jane North, I'll be bound she'd a gone deeper and deeper into tattlin', ef the right one hadn't teched her in a tender spot, and now she's jest sot her heart into the work, and as true as you live, she's growin' handsome in doin' it.
After we've blasted her this time you two can go in the boat an' see what there is to git hold of, but two of my men must go along. So me an' Andy had to go on deck, an' two big fellers was detailed to go with us in the little boat when the time come, an' then the bat'ry man he teched her off. "Well, sir, the pop that followed that tech was somethin' to remember.
It teched my heart, Jim, ter see 'em, 'nd made a old fool uv me in one place, shore. "I stopped in a house one night whar ther war ther old man 'nd woman, a grown-up son 'nd a girl who war, maybe, eighteen year old. Thet girl, Jim, war fine.
He'd 'a' gone to the ground but his friends grabbed him. I run to Jack. "'Be ye hit? I says. "'I think his bullet teched me a little on the top o' the left shoulder, says he. "I see his coat were tore an' we took it off an' the jacket, an' I ripped the shirt some an' see that the bullet had kind o' scuffed its foot on him goin' by, an' left a track in the skin.
"Not ef I knows what's good fur me!" protested Tom, with a great horse-laugh. "What ails ye, boy? Ye talk like ye war teched in the head!" "I went ter say ez Alf Coggin air thar waitin' fur ye," Jim began again, nodding his slandered head with great solemnity, "an' tole me ter tell ye ter kem thar quick."
There, there I know what you want to say but 'taint so! What would ye say ef I was to tell ye that all ye've got to do is jest to get into a machine I've got an' I can take ye back to 1876 in next to no time! What would ye say " "I'd say ye was tighter'n a boiled owl, Copernicus Droop." "But I ain't, I ain't!" he almost screamed. "I tell ye I hevn't teched liquor fer two days. I've reformed.
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