You could see she wanted to--her fingers was itchin' to do it, but--And then Archie held up the ruins of the hat and commenced to laugh.
"That settled it.

Next minute he was across her knee and gettin' what he'd been sufferin' for ever sence he was born; and gettin' all the back numbers along with it, too.
"And in the midst of the performance Sim Phinney leans over to me with the most heavenly, resigned expression on his face, and says he: "'It ain't OUR fault, Hiram.

We promised not to interfere.'" "What did Sam Holden and his wife say when they got home ?" asked Captain Sol, when the triumphant whoops over Archibald's righteous chastisement had subsided.
"We didn't give him much of a chance to say anything.

I laid for him in the hall when he arrived and told him that Phinney had got a telegram and must leave immediate.

He wanted to know why, and a whole lot more, but I told him we'd write it.