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The train was late, fifteen minutes, half an hour late, and I began to get nervous, lest something had happened. While I was looking for it, out started a freight-train, as if on purpose to meet the cars I was expecting, for a grand smash-up.
"And in case of smarrimento," continued Rollo, "they say they won't pay damages to the amount of more than nine dollars, and so forth; what is a smarrimento, uncle George?" "I don't know," said Mr. George. "It may mean a smash-up," said Rollo. "Very likely," said Mr. George.
In the smash-up a rude chair struck her just south of the belt line and she fears brain fever from the blow. The alarm is not general, for though just freed by kind death from an unhappy life sentence of matrimony she is ready to try another jailer.
He busied himself pouring out tea, then brought her cup and placed it beside her on a quaint little table of Chinese Chippendale. "Mrs. Braithwaite my housekeeper is looking after your chauffeur in the kitchen," he observed presently. "Possibly you may be interested to hear" sarcastically "that he wasn't hurt in the smash-up."
"Civilization costs all you've got!" I cried. "More than I've got!" he declared. "I'm mortal tired of civilization." "Ah, yes! What male creature is not? And neither of us will live quite long enough to see the smash-up of our own." "Aren't you sometimes inconsistent?" he inquired, laughing. "I hope so," I returned. "Consistency is a form of death.
It was just a hole. It might have been connected with the philanthropic desire of giving the criminals something to do. I don't know. Then I nearly fell into a very narrow ravine, almost no more than a scar in the hillside. I discovered that a lot of imported drainage-pipes for the settlement had been tumbled in there. There wasn't one that was not broken. It was a wanton smash-up.
"There's been an accident," began Barry awkwardly. "Lady Gertrude " "Is she killed?" in shocked tones. "No, no. But she had another attack this morning heart, or temper and as the doctor was out when they 'phoned for him, she sent Roger rushing off post-haste in the car to find him and bring him along. And" he hesitated a little "I'm afraid he's had rather a bad smash-up."
This closing scene was brief but striking, for two trains of cars whizzed in from opposite sides, met with a terrible collision in the middle of the stage, and a general smash-up completed the word catastrophe. "Now let us act a proverb. I've got one all ready," said Rose, who was dying to distinguish herself in some way before Uncle Alec.
He might not have done it perhaps; but he had entered the house by the lower way, through the area door, and that of the dining-room had stood temptingly open, with some very eatable things spread out upon the table. That had been too much for Ford, after his car-ride, and his smash-up, and his long walk.
Of course it was dreadfully rash and all that," he went on, as if commenting upon the amusing waywardness of a child; "but the result is the usual smash-up of everything, money, credit, and all!" He laughed and added: "Yes, he's got cut off mules and baggage regularly routed and dispersed! I'm in earnest."
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