They looks at
him and he jest sets there and grins at them.
But after a while Jane, she says:
"Well, now you KNOW! What are you going to
do about it?"
Henry, he starts to say something too. But--
"Don't start anything," says the perfessor to
him. "YOU aren't going to do anything." Or
they was words to that effect.
"Professor Booth," he says, seeing he has got
to say something or else Jane will think the worse
of him, "I am--"
"Keep still," says the perfessor, real quiet. "I'll
tend to you in a minute or two. YOU don't count
for much. This thing is mostly between me and
my wife."
When he talks so decided I thinks mebby that
perfessor has got something into him besides
science after all. Jane, she looks kind o' surprised
herself. But she says nothing, except:
"What are you going to do, Frederick?" And
she laughs one of them mean kind of laughs, and
looks at Henry like she wanted him to spunk up a
little more, and says: "What CAN you do, Fred-
erick?"
Frederick, he says, not excited a bit:
"There's quite a number of things I COULD do
that would look bad when they got into the news-
papers. But it's none of them, unless one of you
forces me to it." Then he says:
"You DID want to see the children, Jane?"
She nodded.
"Jane," he says, "can't you see I'm the better
man?"
The perfessor, he was woke up after all them
years of scientifics, and he didn't want to see her
go.
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