But that day he don't drink any more, and Looey says mebby it ain't going to be one of the reg'lar pifflicated kind.

I seen Martha agin that day, too--twicet I has talks with her.

I told her about the doctor.
"Is he into a quest, do you think ?" I asts her.
She says she thinks it is remorse fur some crime he has done.

But I couldn't figger Doctor Kirby would of done none.

So that night after the show I says to him, innocent-like: "Doctor Kirby, what is a quest ?" He looks at me kind of queer.
"Wherefore," says he, "this sudden thirst for enlightenment ?" "I jest run acrost the word accidental-like," I told him.
He looks at me awful hard, his eyes jest natcherally digging into me.
I felt like he knowed I had set out to pump him.