Let me be."
LIX
I went downstairs, and there was T-S, wandering around like a big
fat monk in a purple dressing gown. And there was Maw, also--only
her dressing gown was rose-pink, with white chrysanthemums on it. It
took a lot to get those two awake at six o'clock in the morning, you
may be sure; but there they were, very much worried. "Vot does he
say?" cried the magnate.
"He won't say what he is going to do."
"He von't promise to stay?"
"He won't promise anything."
"Veil, did you lock de door?"
I answered that I had, and then Maw put in, in a hurry: "Billy, you
gotta stay here and take care of him! If he vas to gome downstairs
and tell me to do someting, I vould got to do it!"
I promised; and a little later they got ready a cup of coffee and a
glass of milk and some rolls and butter and fruit, and I had the job
of taking up the tray and setting it in the prophet's room. When I
came in, I tried to say cheerfully, "Here's your breakfast," and not
to show any trace of my uneasiness.
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