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"It's time we vas talkin' business now! Mr. Carpenter, I be frank vit you, I put all my cards on de table. I seen de papers shoost now, vot vunderful tings you do healin' de sick and quellin' de mobs and all dat and I tink I gotta raise my offer, Mr. Carpenter. If you sign a contract I got here in my pocket, I pay you a tousand dollars a veek. Vot you say, my friend?"
Philip examined his ugly visage and strong crooked fore-arm, as he was waiting admittance, having pounded upon the door. "Yait a bit. I'll shoost put on my trowsers," shouted a voice from the window, and the door was soon opened by the yawning landlord. "Morgen! Didn't hear d' drain oncet. Dem boys geeps me up zo spate. Gom right in." Philip was shown into a dirty bar-room.
"Shall you have any more work to do?" asked Joe. "Not shoost now," answered the German. "You can look round in a week. Maybe I have some then." Before going to the Leidesdorff House to call upon his friend Folsom, Joe thought he would try to make arrangements for the night. He came to the St. Francis Hotel, on the corner of Dupont and Clay Streets.
"You can't eat no dinner? Sure you gotta eat your dinner. You can't live if you don't eat. Come along now, Maw." "O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oh!" T-S went and stood before her, and a grin came over his face. "Sure, now, ain't it fine? Say, Mary, look at dem lovely curves. Billy, shoost look here! Vy, she looks like a kid again, don't she! Madame, you're a daisy you sure deliver de goods."
Deasy and Hans were seated on the sward, still panting and furious. Deasy had one black eye; Hans had two. "Are yez satisfied, Dutchy?" inquired Deasy. "Shoost as mooch as you vas!" answered the German.
"Look here, sir," said the sandy-haired man, addressing himself to the German, "what reason have you for charging this boy with breaking your window?" "He stood shoost in front of it," said the German. "If he had broken it, he would have run away. Didn't that occur to you?" "Some one broke mine window," said the German.
"My gootness, no I was downstairs looking at Holbrook's sdained class, and I shoost thought I'd sdep up a minute and take a beep at your vork." "Much obliged, I'm sure especially as I assume that you don't want any of it." Try as he would, Stanwell could not keep a note of eagerness from his voice. Mr. Shepson caught the note, and eyed him shrewdly through gold-rimmed glasses.
How well you are looking, Mrs. She stopped; and Maw, knowing the terrors of her name, made haste to say something agreeable. "Yes, ma'am; dis country agrees vit me fine. Since I come here, I've rode and et, shoost rode and et." "And Mr. T-S," said I. "Howdydo, Mr. "Pretty good, ma'am," said T-S. He had been caught with his mouth full, and was making desperate efforts to swallow.
Carpenter did not say anything, and so the magnate began to expatiate upon the artistic triumphs he would achieve. "I make such a picture fer you as de vorld never seen before. You can do shoost vot you vant in dat story all de tings you like to do, and nuttin' you didn't like. I never said dat to no man before, but I know you now, Mr.
"I said dot it vas no dream; for shoost vot happened to Svorenssen, the same thing happened to me," answered Van Ryn, speaking for himself. "Well, of course, that was very remarkable," I agreed. "Still, it could have been only a dream, since you found yourselves, I understand, in the cave and on your own beds in the morning." "Yah, dot vas so," assented Van Ryn.
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