--Here, Mamie," I
continued, opening the bedroom door, "come out and make
it up with me, and go and kiss your husband; and I'll
tell you what, after the supper, let's go to some place
where there's a band, and I'll waltz with you till
sunrise."
"What does it all mean?" cried Jim.
"It means we have a champagne supper to-night, and all
go to Vapor Valley or to Monterey to-morrow," said I.--
"Mamie, go and get your things on; and you, Jim, sit
down right where you are, take a sheet of paper, and
tell Franklin Dodge to go to Texas.--Mamie, you were
right, my dear; I was rich all the time, and didn't
know it."
CHAPTER XIX
TRAVELS WITH A SHYSTER
THE absorbing and disastrous adventure of the
FLYING SCUD was now quite ended; we had dashed into
these deep waters and we had escaped again to starve;
we had been ruined and were saved, had quarrelled and
made up; there remained nothing but to sing TE
DEUM, draw a line, and begin on a fresh page of my
unwritten diary. I do not pretend that I recovered all
I had lost with Mamie, it would have been more than I
had merited; and I had certainly been more
uncommunicative than became either the partner or the
friend.
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