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Updated: June 25, 2025
But for Worth's quick arm, she would have been into the machines. "No!" she said between locked teeth, tears on her cheeks, "I can't let him." "Why, Barbara!" I said, astonished; and poor Eddie almost blubbered as he begged, "Aw, come on, Miss Barbie. It was my fault in the first place leavin' that damned lathe run. Yuh got to let me " "But if it doesn't work?" "Sure it'll work.
Jabez Judson, I know it ain't no use to attempt any explanation; but I give you my word of honor an' I set just as much store by it as any man in all the world that I never stacked a deck o' cards in my life, an' I never held a single underhanded thought again you; while as for Barbie well, Barbie knows. Good-bye."
And then follows a recital of his faded glories generally ending with a hint that a drink would be very acceptable. Even such a weakling was young Gourlay. His success in Edinburgh, petty as it was, turned his head, and became one of the many causes working to destroy him. All that summer at Barbie he swaggered and drank on the strength of it.
"How did Barbie get around this?" sez I. "Well, she didn't have much to say; he didn't climb up on a perch an' call her names, he just sat there by her side like they was both children together; an' then he took some of her books an' explained things she didn't understand an' pointed out things 'at other scientists didn't believe in, an' he actually said 'at he believed that after they had examined the earth all over, inside an' out with a magnifyin' glass, every last scientist the' was would be willin' to admit that it must have been created some way or another; and that we'd all be the better for the work these scientists was doin', but that she mustn't confuse the word with the spirit, for it was the spirit which giveth life.
When the stationmaster appeared yawning from his office, as he was passing through the gate, and asked who it was, it flattered his vanity to hear Robin's answer, that it was "young Mr. Gourlay of Barbie, just back from the Univ-ai-rsity!" He had been so hot for home that he had left Edinburgh at twilight, too eager to wait for the morrow.
"Barbie," sez I, "as far as my feeble power goes you'll get your mail; an' if it happens to involve any other male why, from this on, I'm under your orders." She was grateful all right, an' tried to smile, but it was a purty successful failure. Soon the winter settled down an' the snow blotted out the trails, but she never heard from him.
"Where is he?" sez Barbie. "I want to see him an' then I can tell just about how much he could do on his own hook." I was feelin' a sight better. I saw exactly how it was. Bill an' all the rest o' the fellers had done exactly what I had hinted at an' hadn't divulged my identity, an' Barbie hadn't the slightest idea that I was in the state.
Rab Tosh o' Fleckie's wife was heavy-footed at the time, and Doctor Munn had been a' nicht wi' her, and when he cam to Barbie Water in the morning it was roaring wide frae bank to brae; where the brig should have been there was naething but the swashing of the yellow waves.
He give me the bill, an' offered me all kinds o' prices for the poultry; but I wanted to take 'em to Barbie, an' I finally stuck 'em under the seat an' refused to let any one see 'em.
I remember the day she was six year old; he hardly ever laid out the details for her conduct, he jest sort o' schemed out a general plan and left her free to adjust herself to it, like a feller does with a dog or a pony he expects to keep a long time an' don't want to turn into a machine. He had told Barbie he didn't want her to ride nothin' 'at wasn't safe.
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