"He means business all right," she said. "We must look a bit lively. I'll have the track patrolled."
"I shall patrol it," said Jim.
CHAPTER XLII
The Doper
In her darker moods Maudie held that the world to-day only possessed one man who could take his place beside the knights of old; and that man, to be sure, was Monkey Brand.
The lads teased or ignored her; the various Four-legs were uncouth to a degree; and the Monster-without-Manners was, of course, just himself.
Therefore Maudie passed all the time she could on the shoulder of Putnam's Only Gentleman. Perched up there, aloof, lofty, and disdainful, she would purr away like a kettle on the simmer.
That evening she was enthroned in Paradise, when Joses shambled by.
Monkey Brand, stroking her back as he stood at the gate of the yard exchanging greetings with the passers-by in the road, shook his head disapprovingly as Joses passed.
"Mug's game, Mr. Joses," he said sotto voce.