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.'"

CHAPTER XV

THE "HERO" AND THE COWBOY

"So that was the end of it, hey?" said Captain Bailey. "Well, it's what
you might expect, but it wa'n't much to be so anxious to tell; and as
for PROVIN' anything about fortune tellin'--why--"

"It AIN'T the end," shouted the exasperated Barzilla. "Not nigh the end.
'Twas the beginnin'. The housekeeper left us that day, of course, and
for the rest of that summer the servant question kept me and Jonadab
from thinkin' of other things. Course, the reason for the Butler scamp's
sudden switch was plain enough. Susannah's lawyer had settled the case
with the railroad and, even after his fee was subtracted, there was
fifteen hundred left. That was enough sight better'n nine hundred, so
Sim figgered when he heard of it; and he hustled to make up with his old
girl.

"Fifteen hundred dollars doesn't last long with some folks. At the
beginnin' of the next spring season both of 'em was round huntin' jobs.
Susannah was a fust-rate waitress, so we hired her for that--no more
housekeeper for hers, and served her right. As for her husband, we took
him on in the stable. He wouldn't have been wuth his salt if it hadn't
been for her. She said she'd keep him movin' and she did. She nagged and
henpecked him till I'd have been sorry if 'twas anybody else; as 'twas,
I got consider'ble satisfaction out of it.

"I got one letter from Effie pretty soon after she left, sayin' she
liked her new job