Phil Rushington's Friends, or, Springvale Boys in a Lumber Camp — page 26: what you’re looking at

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24 “A good man sometimes does a thing that he has reason to be ashamed of.” And to be sorry for, also, without is so with me. “True. being really at fault. It Rushington—syou are not a married man?” “Hardly,” laughed Rush. “Got a girl, though,” grumbled Vint. ‘Dozen of ’em want him,” said Gray. “Tt will be many a day before the cards are out, just the same. When a man is married he has to stop seeing the girls when they make eyes at him, and he has to quit playing ball and rowing boats and those things, and get on to the job of heating milk over a lamp at midnight, and walking the floor with, his son and heir in the small hours.” The professor did not smile. " Rushington,” he said, gravely, “there was that in the remark of your friend Gray which moves me to utter a warning. One girl is all But a They area snare. It is not well-to be loved by two, Thereby very well, if she be of the right sort. dozen, my young friend, is too many. even. hangs my—er—embarrass- ment.” “Ow!” knows what to do with, so he skips out and howled Vint. ‘E’s got more’n he leaves the whole of ‘em. And they sends bloodhounds of the law out on his trail.”’ “To be blunt, gentlemen, it was a breach- of-promise suit that cleaned me out of cash. And—again to be frank—another is pend- ing.” | There was a roar of laughter, and Rush, Vint and Gray said in chorus: “We'll stand by you, professor,”’ CHAPTER IX. THE ATTACK, In the roar of laughter that followed, Pro- fessor Parker joined most heartily. Now that the odious truth was out he did not seem like the same man. He was still ache and eu) of pete and > a tae ~ i e vr... whee id ; {Z 7 iv Me ‘ “- Kr t 23 i f ag a : . +4 » he ? cane | as preceded by a st ‘0 ry I that s ae oy patio! a Na to say i his soul was his own, or to h oo et from looking his new friends in the { face. Re ‘4 “The first was the daintiest, most s} sy Ipt like being you ever saw,” he declared, in ther explanation of his predicament. _ 9 . A - r a te ‘ . oi - ay . rs lan was all soul . mutter ed “Feet must have been ’normous, ”’ Vint. alarm,” chuckled Gray. “While her movements were a poem— =e “A rejected poem,” suggested Rush. £ “You would never have dreamed that su a | a girl could have valued her affections i in. do lox . at <atta uP lars and cents, and sought recourse in th eo courts for her disappointment’ me saec< Se — “How about the other girly—the one w wh 1 is now after your money or your life?” Vir sf inquired. “She, alas “A lass—oh !”’ ; ‘"Lasses is awful sweet. boys,’ whispered “Any mo’ lasses to be brung into yo a via 5 a \o ie . ’ interpolated Vint. — a 7 _ - + » iw “— - =r <> a ony _— »* - _ « & Fates ry dp. mes > % Vy 3 M “Gentlemen, you treat the matter with & tc much levity, considering the fact that the f frst woman ruined me PED EES cay e, as 5 sah ?’’ added Gray. if were, a pauper.” | ee “Too much poetry in her, for poetry, ai 1s steady mune would ruin any man short Kipling.” . : | “Tell us more about the second girl, pre fessor,” urged Gray. a i “She, as it were, obtained a promis e fro me—if I were to concede, as my coun sel el sé # is unnecessary, that there was any tec fs i at: ea promise givena—as I was about to. on ie he were such a. promise, then it “was ¢ under false pretenses, — She came i lage with the airs ofa 3 simple m si an ee Riki) Sate Se zo wien 3 comicbooks.com