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But Ronald Barrymaine never so much as turned his head; motionless he stood, his lips still contorted with their drawn smile, his burning gaze still fixed on Mr. Chichester indeed he seemed oblivious to all else under heaven. "Come, Dig," said he in the same soft voice, "get out the barkers, and quick about it, d' you hear?" "But, Barry oh, my dear fellow, here's poor Beverley, look look at him!"
The Barkers were not Dutch, it is true, but they had the next highest title to consideration in that their progenitor had dwelt in Salem, Massachusetts. "Bring him in the morning," said the Countess, after a moment's thought. "About two?" "Oh no! At eleven or so. I am a very early person. I get up at the screech of dawn."
"Well, well," said Glossin, "no occasion to be particular, tell the essentials." "Who?" "He!" pointing with his thumb inverted to the kitchen, where the prisoner was in custody. "Had he no arms?" asked the Justice. "Ay, ay, they are never without barkers and slashers." "Any papers?" "This bundle," delivering a dirty pocket-book. "Go downstairs, then, Mac-Guffog,. and be in waiting."
In the busier parts of the city the constant street noise puts a nervous tax upon the children; the proximity of so many bright and moving objects taxes the eyes; the splash of gaudy and gross advertisements creates a fevered imagination; slang, profanity, and vulgarity lend a smart effect; the merchant's tempting display often leads to theft, and the immodest dress of women produces an evil effect upon the mind of the overstimulated adolescent boy; opportunities to elude observation and to deceive one's parents abound; social control weakens; ideals become neurotic, flashy, distorted; the light and allurement of the street encourage late hours; the posters and "barkers" of cheap shows often appeal to illicit curiosity, and the galaxy of apparent fun and adventure is such as to tax to the full the wholesome and restraining influence of even the best home.
"Have ye your barkers?" he asked harshly. Jerry tapped a heavily bulging pocket, and winked. Mr. Green thrust his three-cornered hat a-cock over one eye, and with his hands behind the tails of his coat, stood pondering. "Ay, pox on't!" he grumbled. "It must be done to-night. I dursn't delay longer. We'll give the gentlemen time to settle comfortably; then up we go to make things merry for 'em."
No use in a stout Heart, no use in a strong Hand, no use in a sharp Sword, or a pair of barkers with teeth that never fail, when you have to do with a Soldier. Do! What are you to do with him? There he is, with his shaven face and his hair powdered, as if he were going to a fourpenny fandango at Bagnigge Wells.
Time passed and nothing further came to light concerning the Barkers, and gradually Parton and I came to forget them. The following summer I went abroad again, and then came the climax to the Barker episode, as we called it. I can best tell the story of that climax by printing here a letter written by myself to Parton.
Day extinguished again the candles she had lit, and began docilely to unrobe herself. As she did so she talked. "It all went off very well to-night, I think, William?" "First-rate. Champagne-cup ran short." "There should have been enough. The Barkers at their party never have champagne at all." "When you're about it, do the thing well. What's a few pounds more here and there, when the end comes!"
A teamster, I was told, receives seventy dollars per month, a chopper fifty dollars, chain-tenders and jack-screw men the same, swampers forty-five dollars, sawyers forty dollars, and barkers, who are usually Indians, one dollar a day and board besides, for all.
At length, however, they determined to finish their meal as quickly as possible, and to go and tell their kind friends, the Barkers, of their good fortune. It was vain to think of putting their riches out of sight, so the watch was hung over the chimney-piece, the desk, drawing-box, and books, stuck up wherever room could be made for them.
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