At the end of the laugh that greeted this Mac replied:
Well, y'u boys want to be gentle with him." "He's so plumb tender
now that I reckon he'll get along without any more treatment in
that line from us," drawled Frisco.
Mac departed laughing. He had an engagement that recurred daily
in the dusk of the evening, and he was always careful to be on
time. The other party to the engagement met him at the kitchen
door and fell with him into the trail that led to Lee Ming's
laundry.
"What made you late?" she asked.
"I'm not late, honey. I seem late because you're so anxious," he
explained.
"I'm not," protested Nora indignantly. "If you think you're the
only man on the place, Jim McWilliams "
"Sho! Hold your hawsses a minute, Nora, darling. A spinster like
y'u--"
"You think you're awful funny--writing in my autograph album that
a spinster's best friend is her powder box. I like Mr. Halliday's
ways better. He's a perfect gentleman."
"I ain't got a word to say against Denver, even if he did write
in your book,
"'Sugar is sweet, The sky is blue, Grass is green And so are
you.'
I reckon, being a perfect gentleman, he meant--"
"You know very well you wrote that in yourself and pretended it
was Mr.
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