I COULDN'T turn her out then--nobody could.
Course it's an everlastin' outrage on me and the cheekiest thing ever I heard of, but what could I do?
I was fixed a good deal like an English feller by the name of Gatenby that I used to know in South America.

He woke up in the middle of the night and found a boa constrictor curled on the foot of his bed.

Next day, when a crowd of us happened in, there was Gatenby, white as a sheet, starin' down at the snake, and it sound asleep.

'I didn't invite him,' he says, 'but he looked so bloomin' comf'table I 'adn't the 'eart to disturb 'im.' Same way with me; the child seemed so comf'table here I ain't had the heart to disturb her--yet." "But she said she was goin' to stay," put in Bailey.

"You ain't goin' to KEEP her, are you ?" The captain's indignation was intense.
"Who--me ?" he snorted.