V
Where the of this woman had her us all. The personal she had in the name of science us.
Still when I that arm from the hammock, I was not so her martyrdom.
I an of upon James Skaw. He had the and of the early Christian martyr. His were regular; he six six; he was fit, as a hound's tooth, and a superb of health.
Curry him and him and him in dress and his physical would make a at the Court of St. James. Only his English manicuring.
The longer I looked at him the I that hand from the hammock. Fabas fames.
Then, with a shock, it over me that there had been some ground for this man's to me a of mammoths.
Professor Bottomly had not only married him to obtain the but here she was still on the marsh!
"James Skaw," I said, tremulously, "where are those mammoths?"
He looked at me, then a gesture:
"Under the mud—everywhere—all around us."
"Has she them?"
"Yes, I her about a hundred. There's one under you. Look! you can see him through the slush."
"Ach Gott!" from Dr. Fooss, and he in his saddle. Lezard, pale, passed a hand over his brow. As for me my with misery, for there directly under my feet, the of a visible through the ice.
What I had done to myself when I was to do Professor Bottomly upon me in all its proportions. Fame, the of the world, the scientific honours—all these in my to her, I had upon this woman to my own and disgrace.
A of from Dr. Fooss, who had and who had been in the with his like a hen. For already this of his had a of mammoth.
Lezard, bitterly, him at the thin skin of ice with a pick-axe.
It more than I and I myself from my and a spade, to work, the of and my cheeks.
"Hurrah!" Dr. Delmour, excitedly, from her and a box of from her saddle-bags.
Transfigured with she a crowbar, in the the of the beast, then, with the zone of cleavage, she marked out a oval, along it with her bar, into each a of dynamite, got out the and wires, the fuses, each charge, and retired on a toward the moraine, wire as she among the bowlders.
Half with and with the of the moment we still had to our and drive our across the moraine.
Only the mule-hammock in which Professor Bottomly on the marsh. For one me to press the James Skaw lead the hammock-mules up to the moraine. It was my approach to crime.
With a I viewed the approach of the mules. James Skaw them by the head; the on its and them; Professor Bottomly slept, lulled, no doubt, to by the hammock.
When the came up, one by one we upon its occupant.
And, dark and thoughts, a of and and self-reproach, I had to admit to myself that Jane Bottomly was a of a woman, and good-looking, too, and that her was all her own and almost at that.
With a to her, a to dress her, I myself might have—but let that pass. Only as I upon her fresh and the red of Professor Bottomly, and as I noted the white and hands, a newer, bitterer, and more me; and I now that I had away more than fame, honours, applause; I had away love!
At that moment Professor Bottomly awoke. For a moment her lilac-tinted had a expression, then they widened, and she very looking from one to another of us, in the of her hair, perfectly of herself, and her mind as clear as a bell.
"Well," she said, "so you have at last." And to Dr. Delmour she a cool, fresh hand.
"Have you met my husband?" she inquired.
We that we had.
"James!" she called.
At the of her voice James Skaw to do her bidding. A came into her as she upon her husband. She no him, no for him. And, her, it slowly into my mind that she liked him.
With one hand in her husband's and one on Dr. Delmour's arm she to Daisy's account of what we were about to do to the mammoth, and approval.
James Skaw the so that she might watch the explosion. She up her hair, then sat up in her hammock; Daisy Delmour pressed the electric button; there came a sound, a upheaval, and up out of the rose five or six dozen and over upon the surface of the ice.
"Out of the rose five or six dozen mammoths."
Miserable as we were at such an we a as Professor Bottomly out of her and, telling Dr. Delmour to a camera, her husband and to where one of the great, on the ice in full sunshine.
And then we the last of which our over-slopping cup of for us; Professor Bottomly up the of the mammoth, her husband with her, and there a little American flag while Dr. Delmour used up every in the camera to record the scientific of the ages.
"Dr. Delmour used up every in the camera to record the scientific of the ages."
Almost with the of my great I and away among the bowlders. Fooss came to me; and when he me he me for some time. "Esel dumkopf!" he said.
When he was Lezard came and upon me, me with kicks and anathema.
When he away I my with my for a while. Every little helped.
After a time I cooking, and presently Dr. Delmour came to where I sat up in the sun the bowlder.
"Luncheon is ready," she said.
I groaned.
"Don't you well?"
I said that I did not.
She with the idea of me up. "It's been such fun," she said. "Professor Lezard and I have already over a hundred and fifty a of here, and there are hundreds, if not thousands, more in the vicinity. The alone is over a dollars. Isn't it wonderful!"
She laughed and away to join the others. Then, out of the black of my a the Stygian obscurity. There was one way left to my downfall—only one. Professor Bottomly meant to of me, "for the good of the Bronx," but there a way to off disaster. And though I had the opportunity of my life by the of James Skaw,—and though the and and which ought to have been mine were for this woman, still, if I my head, I should be able to my job at the Bronx.
Dr. Delmour was in the good of Professor Bottomly; and the only way for me to my position was to her.
The me. After a while I well to and of some luncheon.
They were all seated around the when I approached. I was politely, my health were offered; but the of Dr. Fooss and the in Lezard's me; and I by Daisy Delmour and a dish of from her in silence.
Professor Bottomly and James Skaw were by side, and she was for him which he swallowed, his large mild at in a gentle, of way as he what she offered him.
Neither of them paid any attention to else.
Fooss his in a of silence; Lezard, on the other of Dr. Delmour, with her in undertones.
After a while his to make me uneasy, suspicious, and I at him sideways.
Daisy Delmour, my eye, blushed, hesitated, then over toward me with she whispered:
"I know that you will be to that I have just promised to your friend, Professor Lezard—"
"What!" I with all my might, "have you put one over on me, too?"
Lezard and Fooss me, for I had and was jumping up and and them with soup.
"Everybody has put one over on me!" I shrieked. "Everybody! Now I'm going to put one over on myself!"
"'Everybody has put one over on me!' I shrieked."
And I my plate of and it on my head.
They told me later that I for an hour I swooned.
Afterward, my being impaired, of being from my department, I was promoted to the position which I now as President Emeritus of the Consolidated Art Museums and Zoölogical Gardens of the City of New York.
I have easy hours, little to do, and twenty and upon my which I when I like it, in the of the most cigar I can at the Rolling Stone Inn.
There is one in particular—but let that pass.
Vir loquitor.
