“I might want him, dod-baste it,” said Harvey, “but I ain't got him. She's got him. I pawned him to her, an' since I've went into pardnership with this here Shuder—”
“What?”
“Well, he ain't so dod-basted bad, at that, when you come to know him,” said Harvey. “He is sort of set against ham, but if other food is plenty I can git along. An' the dicker I made with him, as I was sayin', is goin' to take all my spare cash for quite a while. I guess him an' me, when we git things goin' right, is goin' to con-troll the junk business of this town, an' no mistake. We got a good combination in him an' me. He's a hard worker an' me—I've got the brains.”
“But about Lem?”
“Well, that's it. Accordin' to these here terms of pardnership I'm goin' to have to put in all the spare cash I can get for quite some time, an' it looks like it would be years before I could git Lem out o' pawn, an' he does hate dod-bastedly to be pawned to his Aunt Susan, he does. So if you want to unpawn him an' git him pawned to you, I ain't got no objections.”
“And you, Lem?” asked Henrietta. “Would you rather be pawned to me?”
“I bet you!” the boy said eagerly. “I'd like it.”
“I don't know! I 'll see what I can do,” Henrietta said. “I would love to have him. It is the greatest—the only desire of my heart.”
She went straight to Miss Susan when she reached the house.
“Well, I don't know,” Miss Susan said when