Possibly he will come back in feathers
andwar-paint. At least it could have been explained by anybody except White. Do not
let us dispute amongourselves which shall be the dottiest in the domain of the
dotty. Hood, with hismore mellow rationalism, intervened with a milder amendment.
But look here, began Hood as if impulsively, and then stoppedand spoke more slowly
and carefully.
Pierceshopes of somebody who would talk about
business matters.
Hell come back scalped, I suppose, said White
hopefully.
But have you really been dealingwith ghosts and
spirits down at poor Whites parsonage?
Got folks wondering for a weekwhat it
was.
Think of having a rival with a nose like that to
turn up at you!
I mean that in that sense itwas not so much of an
irrelevancy and hardly even a surprise. He walked to his chair rather stiffly and
sat down rather heavily.
I havehad plenty of fun, and I wont interfere with
anyone else having it.
As I say, he was a quarrelsome fellow, with all his
good points.
Pierceshopes of somebody who would talk about
business matters. He had a ruminant eye,and an equally ruminant manner of chewing an
unlighted cigar. How could Snowdrop, whatever she is, have moved a whole house, or
oldWhite either?
When they put that up to me I saw it was the
proposition, Mr.
I suppose being scalped is all the rage in the best
Red Indian society?
You know the nursery rhyme, I guess; featured a
slap-up princesswhispering in a pigs ear. You see Ive kept my word, he said to the
lady in a loud,cheerful voice.