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The tiny room allotted to the widow was directly back of the kitchen L. It had a single window that gave a fine view of Rainbow Cliffs, but the furniture was of the plainest. Sary took in the simplicity in one glance and then turned to her mistress. "Ah've hear'n tell how Sam Brewster kin buy er sell th' hull township, ef he likes, Miss Brewster," ventured Sary, slyly.
The pa'son's hair fairly stood on end when he heard the evil tune raging through the church, and thinking the choir had gone crazy he held up his hand and said: "Stop, stop, stop! Stop, stop! What's this?" But they didn't hear'n for the noise of their own playing, and the more he called the louder they played.
Guess I know what she's gain' t' give ye Crissmus. 'What's that? I asked, with a curiosity more youthful than becoming. 'Don't ye never let on, said he. 'Never, said I. 'Hear'n 'em tell, he said, 'twas a gol' lockup, with 'er pictur' in it. 'Oh, a locket! I exclaimed. 'That's it, he replied, 'an' pure gol', too. I turned to go. 'Hope she'll grow up a savin' woman, he remarked.
They be all gone to hear the preaching in yonder barn. A ranter preaches there between the services an excellent, fiery, Christian man, they say. But, Lord, I don't go to hear'n! What comes in the regular way over the pulpit is hot enough for I." Tess soon went onward into the village, her footsteps echoing against the houses as though it were a place of the dead.
Then Sary found her power of speech. "Why, Sam Brewster! You-all can't mean that! Send dear, innocent Jeb to such a wicked city as Denver, all alone, to be caught by them ravenin' wolves? Ain't you hear'n tell of flirty gals what goes about vampin' nice young men jus' fer a good time?
'Lo'd have mercy on me, a sinner! 'Be merciful to poor me, or I'm lost. These cries we hear'n from every side. I never felt happier or bolder in my life, while tears of joy ran down as I faced my ole massa. He slam de door shut, an' da said he jumped between two feather-beds to keep from hearin' de cries of de people.
"And how long did that last?" "Until a hopfrog jumped into the pond." The reddleman suddenly ceased to talk idly. "A hopfrog?" he inquired. "Hopfrogs don't jump into ponds this time of year." "They do, for I heard one." "Certain-sure?" "Yes. She told me afore that I should hear'n; and so I did. They say she's clever and deep, and perhaps she charmed 'en to come." "And what then?"
And his violet glass for the cucumbers: he burned en up to once, although 'twere fine to hear'n talk about the sunlight and the rays and such nonsenses. He be a strange mahn, zor, and a dahmned close'n with his penny-pieces, Christian and all as he calls his-sen. There's Miss Juliott, zor, she's go-in' to get married, I suppose; and when she goes no one 'll dare spake to 'n.
'Hear'n 'em tell 'bout goin' t' the village, an' I says t' myself, "Uncle Eb," says I, "we'll hev t' be goin'. 'Tain' no place fer you in the village." 'Holden, said David Brower, 'don't ye never talk like that ag'in. Yer just the same as married t' this family, an' ye can't ever git away from us.
"Hear'n anything uv them varmints what slipped their moorings on the train?" he asked. "We heard that they had gone West," rejoined Merritt, "but to just what part I don't know." "That thar Sam Reddin' boy clar'd himself uv all suspicion, did he?" went on the old man. "Yes, after he had admitted that Jack Curtiss and Bill Bender and himself stole our uniforms and robbed you "
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