Part 24 (1/2)
”It's all right, Muddy,” he laughed, kissing her anda fine joke of her bewilderment; ”feel of ry too, if anybody should ask you I think I'll go up to Ruth Jillett's house for supper--”
She only clung to hi of Ruth first,” she said ”Joey, my eyes is not what they wuz, I've seen you so much when I was alone here--in all the trouble--you wouldn't fool host could ever give ”Of course, if you'd rather believe the Government than your own eyes Why here's Sport! hello, Sport, I'll leave it to you,” he added, reaching down and patting the dog whose tail was going like a pendulum ”Here's a woman that doesn't--”
”Joey, you ht, old Muddy, then admit that I a, ”Of course, you don't You're just two years out of date
You've been living a to--”
”You're not going to Ruth Jillett's, Joey--”
”Well, I certainly will if you don't get me some supper How about that, Sport? Here I am come home a rich man with three hundred dollars in my pocket, and no supper”
”Joey, if I had only known I'd have made a meat pie I won't believe you're real till I see you eat, Joey” That would be a good test
”We won't eat here ot three hundred dollars, and two hundred of it belongs to so to stay right here and I' hoht--so as to be near Ruth Hey, Sport”
Poor old Mrs Haskell only clung tighter to hi, as if he did not understand at all
And so, as the evening drew on, these two, mother and son, sat in the little kitchen of their old hoood supper indeed for a ”sperit” And since it was a , may we not fancy that the staunch spirit of Pee-wee Harris of the raving Ravens ith theht? And when Joey Haskell jollied his poor old mother (as he did most sha in high disgust, ”You think you're smart, don't you?”
And yet, you know, you will hear it said that nothing ever happens in Hicksville
THE END
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