"Might get a deaf and dumb nurse," suggested Brown.
"Capital, if we could afford it, but we aren't millionaires, and
then I suppose it would be awkward to have her around, but we
can easily take care of the—the—colleCtion ourselves. Nothing
could be easier. One or the other of us is here most of the time."
"Why, Harvey, you talk as if you were going to do it."
"I believe I shall, upon my word. The idea thrills me.
come any harm from it. Say, let's try it."
"I'll get the monkeys if you'll get the baby—that's fair." Brown
had a sly twinkle in his eyes.
"By Jove ! it's a bargain. I'll have a baby here inside of three
hours, and I shall hold you to your part." Thereupon he seized
his hat and left the room.
Brown hesitated for a moinent, then followed his companion
down the long flights of stairs, but when he had reached the
front door Harvey had disappeared in the throng on the street.
He still looked on the whole affair as a huge joke, notwithstand
ing his knowledge of his roommate's eccentricities and his liability
to act on the impulse of the moment. More to keep up his end
of the joke than anything else, he sought the Italian quarter of
the city.
Several hours later he reached the top of the stairs and stopped,
perspiring and out of breath before the door . of his room. He
held on one arm a grave-looking monkey, with a comical rim of
whiskers about its face, and on the other a droll little fellow, with
sharp, bead-like eyes and an enormously long tail. There was a
movement within as he approached the door, and upon entering
he found Harvey already there. There was a strange look in
his face.
"By George, Harve," he cried, "I never was so glad in my life
to get home before,. The boys on the street took me for an organ
grinder, and the monkeys acted like the very great merciful I He
jumped three feet."
A feeble wail came from the bed. liarvey jerked his finger over
his shoulder and said in an awe-stricken way :
"I've got a—one, Brown. Put the monkeys in the room there
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