"Come up to your father's bathroom, Sam.
Does it hurt much?"
"No'm," he answered truthfully, "it hardly hurts at all."
And having followed her to the bathroom, he insisted, with
unusual gentleness, that he be left to apply the arnica to the
alleged injuries himself. He was so persuasive that she yielded,
and descended to the library, where she found her husband once
more at home after his day's work.
"Well?" he said. "Did Georgie show up, and were they decent to
him?"
"Oh, yes; it's all right. Sam and Penrod were good as gold. I saw
them being actually cordial to him."
"That's well," Mr. Williams said, settling into a chair with his
paper. "I was a little apprehensive, but I suppose I was
mistaken. I walked home, and just now, as I passed Mrs.
Bassett's, I saw Doctor Venny's car in front, and that barber
from the corner shop on Second Street was going in the door. I
couldn't think what a widow would need a barber and a doctor
for--especially at the same time. I couldn't think what Georgie'd
need such a combination for either, and then I got afraid that
maybe--"
Mrs.
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