"Shut up, Cash. She's my wife--now where do you get off at?"
(That, o course, lacked a little of being the exact truth. Lacked a few
hours, in fact, because they did not reach Alpine and the railroad
until that afternoon, and were not remarried until seven o'clock that
evening.) "No, no, no!" cried Lovin Child from a safe distance. "Tell a worl' no,
no!"
"I'll tell the world yes, yes!" Bud retorted ecstatically, lifting his
face again. "Come here, you little scallywag, and love your mamma Marie.
Cash, you old donkey, don't you get it yet? We've got 'em both for
keeps, you and me."
"Yeah--I get it, all right." Cash came and stood awkwardly over them. "I
get it--found my girl one minute, and lost her again the next! But I'll
tell yeh one thing, Bud Moore. The kid's' goin' to call me grampaw, er
I'll know the reason why!"