Words failed Mr. Crow
Mr. Reesling rose to the occasion.
"Do you mean to insinuate, Otto Schultz, that—" he began as he started to remove his coat.
By this time Susie felt it was safe to trust herself to speech. She removed her hands from her mouth and cried out:
"He isn't talking about me, Pop," she gasped. "It's Gertie Bumbelburg."
"Sure," said Otto hastily.
Mr. Crow still being speechless, Alf suspended his belligerent preparations, and cocking one eye calculatingly, settled the matter of Miss Bumbelburg's age with exasperating accuracy.