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Soon's I git me some stout shoes an' rubbers, as Mandy says, I can fetch home plenty o' little dry boughs o' pine; you remember I was always a great hand to roam in the woods? If we could only have a front room, so 't we could look out on the road an' see passin', an' was shod for meetin', I don' know's we should complain.
Are you planning that she shall keep store and keep house for you the rest of her life, or the rest of yours?" Zoeth shook his head. "Why," he said, mildly, "I don't know's we've planned much about it so fur. Those things sort of take care of themselves, always seemed to me. Or the Almighty takes care of 'em for us." Their visitor smiled.
"I'm so upsot ever since I looked into that kitchen and see the poor soul down on the floor there that that all I'm sure of is that I ain't sure of nothin." "Well, I don't know's I blame you much, Isaiah," grunted the Captain. "Anyway, it doesn't make much difference about that letter, so fur as I see, whether there was one or not. What did you want to know for, Mary?" Mary hesitated.
"Well, I couldn't be no colder if I was froze to death," answered the widow, with an amiable simper. "Don't ye let me delay you, nor put you out, Mr. Briley. I don't know's I'd set forth to-day if I'd known't was so cold; but I had all my bundles done up, and I ain't one that puts my hand to the plough an' looks back, 'cordin' to Scriptur'."
If it's about that house business maybe I " "It ain't" "Then what is it? Please, Emeline. I know you don't think much of me. Maybe you've got good reasons; I'm past the place where I'd deny that. I I've been feelin' meaner'n meaner every day lately. I I don't know's I done right in runnin' off and leavin' you the way I did. Don't you s'pose you could give me another chance? Emeline, I "
"It looks as though Frank was mixed up in something." "Do you mean something bad?" asked Bart. "No, I don't know's I'd call it that. But something suspicious, anyhow. You remember that letter from Wright & Johnson?" "The one of which we found the envelope?" Bart inquired. "That's the one. Well, these men evidently are mixed up in the case. It seems to concern property.
I got pretty nearly as low as a man ever gets. Oh, I was down and out: no home, no family, not a friend that wanted to see me. If you never got down that low, Mister, you don't know what it is. You are just as much dead as if you were in your grave. I'm telling you. "I thought there was no help for me, and I don't know's I wanted to be helped.
But I'm just sayin' what we both know's a fact. He didn't want to see us; he didn't want to see nobody. Since his wife died he lived alone in that house, except for a housekeeper and that stepchild, and never went anywhere or had anybody come to see him if he could help it. A reg'lar hermit that's what he was, a hermit, like Peleg Myrick down to Setuckit P'int.
That's who Marbury was Maitland. Dead certain!" Rathbury still stared at his caller. "Go on!" he said. "Tell all about it, Spargo. Let's hear every detail. I'll tell you all I know after. But what I know's nothing to that." Spargo told him the whole story of his adventures at Market Milcaster, and the detective listened with rapt attention. "Yes," he said at the end.
'Be good enough to leave me. 'Well, I make no objections, mind. I'm takin' thy word thou'rt Maud Ruthyn 'appen thou be'st and 'appen thou baint. I'm not aweer on't, but I takes thy word, and all I want to know's just this, did Meg open the gate to thee? I made him no answer, and to my great relief I saw Milly striding and skipping across the unequal stepping-stones.
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