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I dun'no' whut the man could hev thought o' you-uns, dressed out that-a-way." "He war toler'ble well pleased with me now, sure!" retorted Ethelinda, stung to a blunt self-assertion. "He keered mo' about a good-lookin' road than a good-lookin' gal then.
He ain't no " she started fiercely again and stopped again. "But I come here fer HIM not fer YOU. YOU oughtn't to 'a' keered. Hit wouldn't 'a' been his fault. He never was the same after he come back from here. Hit worried him most to death, an' I know hit was you YOU he was always thinkin' about. He didn't keer 'cept fer you." Again that shadow came and deepened.
"Ez I was sayin'," continued Nott, once more pressing the excited man down in his chair, "I might hev wiped ye out and mebbee ye wouldn't hev keered or YOU might hev wiped ME out, and I mout hev said, 'Thank'ee, but I reckon this ain't a case for what's comf'able for you and me. It's what's good for ROSEY. And the thing to kalkilate is, what's to be done."
"They air a-sayin' as how he air a-comin' up here mighty often; as how Easter Hicks, who hev never keered fer no man, air in love with this furriner from the settlemints." The girl reddened, in spite of her assumed indifference. "They- say, too, as how he air not in love with her, 'n' that somebody oughter warn Easter that he air not a-meanin' good to her.
I hearn a awful tale over yander 'mongst them Jenkins folks. Ye oughter hev married Luke Todd, an' so I tole ye an' fairly beset ye ter do ten year ago. He keered fur ye. An' Tobe shucks! Wa'al, laws-a-massy, child! I hearn a awful tale 'bout Tobe up yander at Jenkinses'." Eugenia colored. "Folks hed better take keer how they talk 'bout Tobe," she said, with a touch of pride.
"I kaint speak as I desires to, Smiles. I fears I kaint make ye understand what's in my heart; but I've keered mightily fer ye, dear, ever since yo' war a smilin' leetle baby gal, an' now ... now yo'r most a woman grown, an' I love ye, want ye more come each new day an' each new night.
"Ye 'lowed ter me ez ye never keered nuthin' fur that man, Renfrow," he said with a plaintive appeal, far more powerful with her than scorn. She looked up at him with candid reassuring eyes. "I never keered none fur him," she protested. "He kem hyar all shot up, with the miners an' mounting boys hot foot arter him an' we done what we could fur him.
"You know I never keered fer you, or any other man. Don't you and Dora begin to quarrel now." Andy looked sullen, and Dora scared. At length Dora took speech timidly. "Billy will be here in a minute." "Billy who?" asked Andy. "Billy Caughey," she answered. "He came over in the same ship with me." "Oh, I s'pose you've been sparkin' with him ag'in! You pitched him over to take me "
That ain't my idea of Gawd. But then I ain't got religion." "Still the same old pagan," laughed Paul. "No, not the same, sonny," said Barney Bill, holding up his knife, which supported a morsel of cheese. "Old. Rheumaticky. Got to live in a 'ouse when it rains me who never keered whether I was baked to a cinder or wet through! I ain't a pagan no more. I'm a crock."
I never knowed that I keered for him till to-night." She pointed at Smoky, who remarked deprecatingly "I allus allowed you was a daughter o' the Golden West." "If you ain't goin' to hang me," said Mintie, "don't you think you'd better skip?" She laughed scornfully, and the men, without a word, skipped.
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