Must you be deaf as well as blind?
That's why you couldn't act your part, child. Do you love him or must
he be a gorilla for the rest of his days?"
Miss Carroll whirled around and caught Delmars with a lightning glance
of her eye. He came toward her, melancholy.
"Did you hear, Mr. Delmars?" she asked, with a catching breath.
"I did," said the comedian. "It is true. I didn't think there was
any use. I tried to let you know with the song."
"Silly!" said the matron; "why didn't you speak?"
"No, no," cried the wood nymph, "his way was the best. I didn't know,
but--it was just what I wanted, Bobby."
She sprang like a green grasshopper; and the comedian opened his arms,
and--smiled.
"Get out of this," roared the desk sergeant to the waiting waiter from
the restaurant. "There's nothing doing here for you."
XVII
ONE DOLLAR'S WORTH
The judge of the United States court of the district lying along the
Rio Grande border found the following letter one morning in his mail:
JUDGE:
When you sent me up for four years you made a talk.
Among other hard things, you called me a rattlesnake.
Maybe I am one--anyhow, you hear me rattling now.
One year after I got to the pen, my daughter died of--
well, they said it was poverty and the disgrace together.
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