“But he said——!”
“Who said?”
“Annie’s buoy-oy.”
“Annie’s——?”
“ ’Lijah, he calls hisself.”
“Elijah? And did he go up in a chariot of fire with the horses?” And more than ever incensed against Mr. Skindle, she hastily started her carrier’s chanty:
“There is Hey, there is Ree.”
Automatically his sepulchral bass exuded, and his arms reclasped the box:
“There is Hoo, there is Gee——”
Then together their antithetical voices rolled out joyously as the box moved forward: