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"Good night, Dudley." "Good night, Marshall." Amos followed his caller to the door. As he did so Lydia heard Kent's whistle in the back yard. She joined him and the two withdrew to a bench behind the woodshed. "I saw him through the window," said Kent, in a low voice. "What's he going to do to us? Dad's licked me, so that much is done." Lydia told of their punishment.
Amos Radbury could not resist his son's appeal, especially as he was glad to have the boy where he might have an eye on him. So it was settled that Dan should accompany his parent; and thus did the youth become a soldier to fight for the liberty of Texas.
It was a little after nine when the chug-chug of Kent's car stopped at the gate and in a moment Kent, white faced, appeared in the door. "John Levine's been shot. He wants Lydia!" Without a sound Lydia started after Kent down the path, Amos following. Kent packed them into the little car and started back toward town at breakneck speed. "How bad off is he?" asked Amos. "Can't live," answered Kent.
Then Uncle Amos suddenly demonstrated his skill at driving one-handed and something more than the blanket-shawl was around Millie's shoulders. "Ach, my," she said after a while, "to think of it me, a hired girl, to get a nice, good man like you for husband!" "And me, a fat dopple of a farmer to get a girl like you! I'll be good to you, Millie, honest! You just see once if I won't!
Amos must have dozed in his chair, for it seemed only a moment when a knock sounded on the side door and, without waiting for a reply, Maria Maxwell entered, a cape thrown about her shoulders, a lantern in one hand, and in the other a covered pitcher from which steam was curling.
All hands felt that we were as snugly housed for the winter as the big grizzly bears in their lairs among the rocks. Snow had been falling for several days and it lay deep on the mountain slopes and in the wide expanse of the valley below. We had not had an assay for two weeks and all were anxious for another report from Amos.
"Auntie dear," he asked, "what's amiss? I'm sure you are not well this morning." "I am a little upset, dear boy," she replied, "but it is nothing serious." "I hope not, Kate," said her brother. "But where is Amos?" "Well, Walter," replied his sister, "that is just it.
I considered, as I made my way to my final supper with the Jimsons, that the said child was likely to prove a sufficiently serious business for Mr Moxon Ivery before the game was out. Andrew Amos I took the train three days later from King's Cross to Edinburgh. I went to the Pentland Hotel in Princes Street and left there a suit-case containing some clean linen and a change of clothes.
But now she was gone; the broad snow-reflected daylight was in all the rooms; the Vicarage again seemed part of the common working-day world, and Amos, for the first time, felt that he was alone that day after day, month after month, year after year, would have to be lived through without Milly's love.
I could not foresee the time when I should touch his hand on an occasion of very different import and with Zoe standing by. Zoe had made Amos some pretty little things and sent them by me. Sarah's only regret was that her grandmother could not see the boy. Her great happiness was wholly beautiful. And Reverdy seemed impressed with a greater dignity and a more gracious heart, if that were possible.
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