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The wicket-keeper jumped out of the way, as his mother would have wished him to do, and Long-stop shut his eyes and hoped for the best. The batsman blindly waved his bat, and, inasmuch as the ball hit it, and rebounded some distance, called to his partner, who was mending the binding on his bat-handle. "Will you come? Osborne, you fool! Yes. Yes. YES! No, no. YE-E-ES! No go back, you fool.
"I believe er I had the honah to send up my kyard!" The colonel paused, and placed his right hand statuesquely on his heart. The two women trembled Miss Tish fancied the very shirt frill of the colonel was majestically erecting itself as they stammered in one voice, "Ye-e-es!" "That kyard contained my full name with a request to see my ward Miss Stannard," continued the colonel slowly.
At the same time, her eyes lit with glad surprise. But now this wave of thoughtfulness, generosity and smooth speech! marking a very era in the history of the nursery. Here was fresh evidence that it was continuing. Yet was it not too good to last? "Why, ye-e-es," she answered, more than half guessing that this time bribery was in the air.
"O ye-e-es, in a dream; yes, I remember now," returned the satellite in some confusion, yet with a good deal of faith, for he was a heavy feeder, and subject to nightmares, so that it was not difficult to imagine the "whisper" which had been suggested to him. "Yes, you remember now, stupid walrus! Well, then, what was the strange thing like?"
That is to say, Sir Victor was with me." "Bother! What did you talk about? Did he ask after me?" "Ye-e-es," Edith answered doubtfully the fact being Sir Victor had utterly forgotten Miss Stuart's existence in the dizzy rapture of his acceptance "he asked for you, of course." "Was that all?
"Ye-e-es," answered Bimbane slowly, "I ought to know, certainly; but it happens that I do not. For at the moment when you encountered Siluce, it chanced that my attention was distracted from you for a time; and when at length I was again free to visualise you, the woman was lying dead in your arms, and so I missed hearing what she told you. But I can guess; and I have guessed aright, have I not?"
"I didn't know at first whether or no I ought to take it. That's one thing I come on for." "Ye-e-es?" says I, a little sarcastic maybe. "Had to be urged, did you?" "Wall," says he, "I wa'n't sure the fam'ly could afford it exactly." "It was a gift, then?" says I. "Willed to me," says he. "Kind of curious too.
"Bully disguise, eh!" he said, folding up his beard and putting it in his pocket. "Ye-e-es," said I, ruefully, as I thought of the vanished two thousand. "I think I preferred you in disguise, though, old man," I added. "You won't when you hear what I've come for," said he. "There's $5000 apiece in this job for us." "To what job do you refer?" I asked. "The Burlingame case," he replied.
"Ye-e-es, sir," says I, sort of draggy. He glances up at me quick. "You're not enthusiastic about it, eh?" says he. "No," says I. "Then for your satisfaction, and somewhat for my own," he goes on, "we will review the case against this young man. He was one of three who won a D minus rating in the report made by that efficiency expert called in by Mr. Piddie last fall."
Don't you see?" "Kind of stale and picayune, Steele, it strikes me," says I. "Course, you're the doctor. If you'd rather see all them other folks that you dislike come in for a hundred and fifty thousand apiece, with no rakeoff for you why, that's your business. But I'd think it over." "Ye-e-es," says he draggy. "I I suppose I must."
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