At this hopeful point, Jesse Willows noticed, for the first time, that no lady was now present, and his long body made a singular twisting and free motion beneath his clothes.
"I will vote for rud and anywheres," Totts said. "But I doubt if I can accept coat-house."
Jesse Willows took him instantly by the nose. "You'll accept nothin'," said he, with great sweetness; and he shook him forward and back. "I am weary of you and yore antics," and he shook him right and left. "You're goin' to rub out everything you have written," and he shook him round and round.
"Help," gurgled the struggling Totts. "Help!"
"No, indeed; no, indeed," cried Maverick and Cottsill, delighted.
"You gentlemen are included," said Willows to them, and they both hastily covered their noses with their hands. "I don't
