An evil mind----" Now it was Patsy's turn to interrupt: "Watch me now, I think that wan of the most beautiful things I iver saw was them two young people comin' together.

Five long months it was, afther Mazarine was put away before she spoke with him.

It was in the gardin at Nolan's ranch, and even then it wasn't aisy till her.

Not that she didn't want to see him all the time; not, I'll be bound, that she didn't say, when you and Nolan first told her the mastodon was dead, 'Thank God, I'm free!' But, there he was, flung out of the wurruld without a minute's notice, and with the black thing in his heart.

Shure you'll be understandin' it a thousand times better than meself, y'r anner." He took a pinch of snuff from a little box, offered it to the Young Doctor and continued his story.
"Well, as I said, whin five months had gone by they met.