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He swung the glass around until it pointed toward their home away up the shore. "Perez," he called anxiously, "look here quick!" Captain Perez hastily put his eye to the glass, and his friend went on: "You see our house?" he said. "Yes; well, you see the dinin'-room door. Notice that chair by the side of it?" "Yes, what of it?" "Well, that's the rocker that Elsie made the velvet cushion for.
He was always fond o' his family spite o' all they say. Did ye see the second table in the dinin'-room? Sure, that's stood there ever since his first wife et her last meal on it, just as it was then, sor the same cloth, the same dishes, the same sugar in the bowl, the same pickles in the jar. He was like one o' them big rocks in the field there ye couldn't move him when he put his foot down."
J. Dudley Simms is still roostin' alongside the wireless cabin; and just beyond, crouched behind a stanchion with one ear juttin' out, is Captain Killam. "Fine!" says I. "Rupert's got a steady job, eh?" About then the other folks commence mobilizin' for a drive on the dinin'-room, and someone calls Dudley to come along. "Just a moment," says he, scribblin' on a pad.
Enright squar's it for him; for when Missis Rucker appears subsequent with a Winchester an' a knife an' gives it out cold she's goin' to get Bowlaig's hide an' tallow an' sell 'em to pay even for that dinin'-room desolation of which he's the architect, Enright counts up the damage an' pays over twenty-three dollars in full settlement. Does Bowlaigs know it?
"He might git away. You leave me jes' like he fixed me so's you can try to ketch him. I hear him in the dinin'-room now. You leave me right here an' step over to yo' house an' 'phone to some mens to come and git him quick. Shet the do' ag'in an' don't make no noise. Fly, now!" And Jimmy did fly. He again took the garden route and in a minute was at the telephone with the receiver at his ear.
"Still, I'll say for that most esteemable lady, that Missis Rucker never lays for Bowlaigs or assaults him ontil one afternoon when he catches the dinin'-room deserted an' off its gyard an' goes romancin' over, cat-foot an' surreptitious, an' cleans up the tables of what chuck has been placed thar in antic'pation of supper.
"Not a bit o' paperin' doon anywhere juist two three rooms colour-washed, as yo' med do 'em at t' workhouse. An' that big hole in t' dinin'-room ceilin', juist as 'twas and such shabby sticks o' things upstairs an' down as I nivver see! I'll have a good sight better when I get married, I know!" Contempt ran sharply through the girl's tone. As she ceased speaking a step was heard in the corridor.
I'se sent Cap'n Walling in pursuit, an' now we mus' make prep'rations fer de night. Den a man dey call a sergeant, who'd been a spyin' roun' de kitchen, an' lookin' in de dinin'-room winders, come up an' say something to Cap'n Lane; an' he come up to de doah an' say he like ter see one ob de ladies.
I don't know whether she did or not, but when we're towed into the dinin'-room she spots the table decorations right off, and whirls on me. "Here's plotting, young man," says she. "But if you will tell me how you discovered I was so fond of Louis Philippe roses I'll forgive you." "Looks like I was a good guesser, don't it?" says I.
Firs' come Airydale dog you' grampaw tuck an' give away to the milkman; 'n'en come two mo' pups; I don't know whut they is, 'cause they bofe had dess sense enough to run away after you' grampaw try learn 'em how much he ain't like no pups; an' nex' come them two canaries hangin' in the dinin'-room now, an' nex' di'n' I holler so's they could a-hear me all way down town?
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