United States or Philippines ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
She glanced about helplessly. What could she say or do? There was no other human being within call. In hasty retrospection, her mind swept back to Ben Letts. She shuddered as she remembered the many times he'd made the same demand upon her.
Myra looked after him fearfully. The trouble between her child's father and her brother had come upon her so suddenly that she had given Ezra another hold upon the man she loved, by telling him her secret. That afternoon she followed Letts a short distance along the shore toward his cabin. When out of sight of her own home, she ran forward. "Ben! Ben!" she called.
The shining eyes were sending a truthful message into the heart of the young mother. "That ain't nothin' to do with Ben Letts," muttered Myra. "Yep, it air," insisted Tess. "It says what ye seeks ye find. Ain't ye seekin' Ben Letts?" "I knows where he air already," sullenly replied Myra. "But ye can seek his lovin's, can't ye?... I's a seekin' Daddy and somethin' else." "What?"
For a few minutes they remained silent. Then Orn Skinner burst forth again, "I ain't got as much use for that feller Tess loves as a dog has for a million fleas, an' I never liked 'is pa, uther...." "Ye wouldn't wish she'd be lovin' Sandy Letts, even if he does make money, eh, Orn?" asked Andy. "Thunder, no!" snorted Skinner. "I'd ruther she'd be dead 'n married to Sandy.
Bitska in a bowler-hat, red-faced, with thin whiskers such as are worn by the Letts, looked gravely round: "You have not slept, Robert Edouardovitch?" asked Agrenev. "No, I have not, and I am not in a good humour either." The man was silent a moment, then burst out; "Now I am forty years, and my vife she is eighteen. I am in vants of an earnest housekeeper.
The horror of the situation came slowly over her. For the instant she forgot the student sleeping in her father's bed, and Ben Letts had not noticed him. Ben began to speak in low tones: "If ye wants to live, don't holler ... Get up!" Tess crawled out of bed, fully dressed. Frederick slept on, hearing no sound, for the cold room had compelled him nearly to cover his head.
"Jack," she said at last, "this is your stepfather." Mr. Letts, in some difficulty as to the etiquette on such occasions, released his right arm and extended his hand. "Good-evening, stepfather," he said, cheerfully. Mr. Green drew back a little and regarded him unfavorably. "We we thought you was drowned," he said at last. "I was nearly," said Mr. Letts. "We all thought so," pursued Mr.
He led her through the Chapel aisle, pushing aside the other men. At the door, Tess caught one glimpse of Sandy Letts' dark, passionate face. "Go home," the minister said hoarsely; "and may God forgive us all." How Tessibel found her way home, she could never afterwards tell. Spent by the struggle with the storm, she staggered into the shanty.
She grasped the boy's arm, and twisted him about so that he faced her. "What can ye tell?" "Somethin'." "About Skinner?" "Yep." "Ye'd hang Ben Letts if ye could. But ye won't, ye see? Ye'd not hang a man what ought to be in yer own fambly, would ye?"
"Andy were sent up there fer all his life, weren't he? An' weren't he the one Sandy Letts swore agin?... 'Satisfied' Longman says Waldstricker give Sandy money for tellin' the jury what he did." "Like as not," answered Skinner. "Anyhow, Bishop were there fer life! He air been there five years a innercent man.... My God, Auburn fer five years!"
Word Of The Day