I think his ship was then ordered to—" She nodded.
"Alas! he got go an' serve his country. But he go'n' come back, an' keep on being marry with me. What you thing?"
The consul contrived to evade the interrogation.
"Is that why you asked about the robins?"
"Yaes; he go'n' come when the robins nest again. He? He don' naever egspeg we got this nize bebby, account I don' tell him. I don' kin tell him. I don' know where he is. But—me? I don' tell if I know, account he rush right over here, an' desert his country, an' henceforth git in a large trouble—mebby with that President United States America, an' that large Goddess Liberty Independence! What you thing?"
XI
"THE MOS' BES' NIZE MAN"
It was quite superfluous to point out such of her ideas as had birth in the fertile brain of Pinkerton. Certainly he had enjoyed his
