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The girl nodded her head vaguely. "They say as how mommer can't take care of us popper he's got to go to the work'ouse again. He wa'n't so very drunk this time but the judge sent him there mean old thing! And they say mommer can't take care of us and we'll have to be put away in 'sylums. And we don't want to go. She says if the Charity folks will help with the rent, we can get on.
The burden upon the girl's shoulders grew momentarily lighter. Miss Philps, with her matter of fact cheeriness, her strength and her experience, was exactly what that house of overstrained nerves needed. "Dear me," she said, "you're all as fidgety as corn in a popper. And no need for it. I've nursed dozens worse than your mother, Miss Esther, and had them right as a trivet before I got through.
The soldiers had done some work on the roads, so they were not as bad as they had been earlier in the spring; but they were still bad enough, and the people in the truck were bounced about like kernels of corn in a popper. "Now," said Mademoiselle, when they arrived at the station, "the fowls and the rabbits will have to go back in the truck.
"And we'll pop corn," said Mr. Bartlett when they were all gathered together watching the roaring flames, the only light in the room. And Nancy, who could on a moment's notice, produce anything asked of her, brought the popper and a big bag of dried corn. After a time, when several bowls of corn were popped and buttered, salted and eaten, Nancy put on the hearth a dish of fine, rosy apples.
The "it" referred to Cissy's new hat, and to the young girl the coherence was perfectly plain. Miss Tibbs looked at "it" severely. It would not do for a protegee to be too complaisant. "Hem! Must have cost a heap o' money." "It did! Came from the best milliner in San Francisco." "Of course," said Piney, with half assumed envy. "When your popper runs the bank and just wallows in gold!"
"Damnably!" "Horrible! horrible! Do you think the story about Cain and Abel is true?" "As God is in heaven!" "Can't it be done without blood?" "I'll have nothing to do with the murder. But, Mister, if so be as you are so craven-hearted, take your small popper, and send a ball right into his heart.
Then, if Buddy were not too sleepy, he would watch the cattle lie down to chew their cuds in deep, sighing content until they slept. It reminded Buddy vaguely of when mother popped corn in a wire popper, a long time ago-before they all lived in a wagon and went with the herd.
Popper, who had not recovered from the hysterical condition of her exposure, with difficulty controlled her emotion. Vandam was crushed. "I have not only arranged this laboratory so as to reproduce Mrs. Popper's seance-room," began Craig afresh, "but I have had the cabinet placed in relatively the same position a similar cabinet occupies in Mr. Vandam's private seance-room in the Vandam mansion.
She had responded with a wild yell that showed she knew she was trapped. Her secret was out. Hysterically Mrs. Popper began to upbraid the inspector as he rose to his feet, but Farrington quickly interposed. "Something was working against us to-night, gentlemen. Yet you demanded results. And when the spirits will not come, what is she to do?
Farrington's, as I implied at the moment when you so kindly furnished this additional proof of your guilt by trying to destroy the evidence. The ghost was you, Mrs. Popper, and you are at liberty to examine the markings as minutely as you please, but you must not destroy them. You are an astute criminal, Mrs.
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