“'Three cheers for the Oriental!' bellers somebody else.
“'When you marry the right Butler fetch him along and let us see him!' whoops another.
“She faced 'em all, and I gloried in her spunk.
“'When I marry him I WILL come back,' says she. 'And when I do you'll have to get down on your knees and wait on me. You—and you—Yes, and YOU, too!'
“The last two 'yous' was hove at Sim and Susannah. Then she turned and marched into the hotel. And the way them hired hands carried on was somethin' scandalous—till I stepped in and took charge of the deck.
“That very afternoon I put Effie and her trunk aboard the train. I paid her fare to New York and give her directions how to locate the Van Wedderburns.
“'So long, Effie,' says I to her. 'It's all right. You're enough sight better off. All you want to do now is to work hard and forget all that fortune-tellin' foolishness.'
“She whirled on me like a top.
“'Forget it!' she says. 'I GUESS I shan't forget it! It's comin' true, I tell you—same as all the rest come true. You said yourself there was ten thousand Butlers in the world. Some day the right one—the handsome, high-ranked, distinguished one—will come along, and I'll get him. You wait and see, Mr. Wingate—just you wait and see.'”