“All settled up?” he inquired mildly.

“Yes,” Gorgas smiled back. “Everything O. K.”

“O. K.,” he hummed. “So he bunt? Eh?”

Nobody answered.

“When you take you’ w’ite-wash house, eh?”

“But he didn’t bunt, Bardek,” she laughed mischievously.

“Not bunt? Then why everyt’ing—O. K.?” he demanded.

“No, Bardek,” she explained. “You see, it was this way. I played in for a bunt—”

“You played in for a bunt? You! I see that—”

“But instead of bunting, he biffed one on the nose—”