Then Merry set Gallup to watch the tragedian.
Frank was at work in the theater, where various members of the company were practicing specialties, and the stage hands were arranging everything so that there would be no hitch about the performance.
Within thirty minutes after Gallup was set to watch the old actor, he came to Frank in a hurry, saying:
“If you want to keep Mr. Burns sober, I advise yeou to come with me an’ git him aout of a grog shop daown the street, Merry.”
“What’s that?” exclaimed Frank. “Why, he hasn’t the money to buy liquor, even if he has gone into a saloon.”
“He won’t hev to buy it, I guess.”
“Why not?”
“Well, I saw two men pick him up an’ take him inter the gin mill. They axed him would he come in an’ have somethin’ with them.”
“Did he know them?”
“Didn’t seem ter. He looked kainder s’prised, but he accepted the invite in a hurry.”