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Tess walked down the lane, running as she neared the foot of the hill. She wanted to impart to the student what Dan had told her. With her fingers upon the hut latch she stopped short. Voices came from inside. She dropped her hand Ben Letts was there or another squatter. Suddenly she opened the door and stood in the entrance.
Letts responded, but without briskness, and, with such moral support as an arm of each could afford, walked slowly back. Arrived at a road of substantial cottages at the back of the town, Mrs. Green gasped, and, coming to a standstill, nodded at a van that stood half-way up the road. "There it is," she exclaimed. "What?" demanded Mr. Letts. "The furniture I told you about," said Mrs. Green.
Waldstricker told his wife and my I mean Madelene that you'll either be sent away or must marry marry Lysander Letts." Tess stared at him wildly as though he were going mad. Or was she losing her reason! What awful thing had he said. Lysander Letts surely she had not heard straight. "Ye weren't tellin' me what were true, Frederick," she whimpered overwhelmed. "Oh, ye scared me so!"
If the wild Letts, even the Jomsburgers, had got in, all was lost. He rushed to the door. It was not yet burst: but a bench, swung by strong arms, was battering it in fast. "Winter! Geri! Siwards! To me, Hereward's men! Stand back, fellows. Here are friends here inside. If you do not, I'll cut you down." But in vain. The door was burst, and in poured the savage mob.
Tess was picking up the child, and standing over her, fists doubled menacingly, was Lysander Letts. Andy thought the enraged squatter was going to kill her and Boy. Wholly forgetful of his own danger, he continued to watch. His small boyish face was still at the pane, when Lysander looked up. Andy saw the upturned glance and flung himself back out of sight. Had Letts seen him?
"She's gone with Ben Letts." "Gone where?" "We don't know, but the officers are looking for them. I think the boy heard me tell the nurse that he would be held as a witness in your father's next trial. He must have warned Letts upon his arrival home, for " "He knowed Myry loved Ben," broke in Tess. "That's what I thought," Young answered. "I found Longman and the mother mourning over the boy.
Tartars and Letts and Indians, Asiatics with long yellow faces, and strange fellows from Northern Russia. They had everything to sell, bright beads and looking-glasses and little lacquered trays, coloured boxes, red and green and yellow, lace and silk and cloths of every colour, purple and crimson and gold. From all these men there rose a deafening gabble.
Be as natural as you can be, and if you do anything I don't like I'll soon tell you of it." The bewildered Mr. Widden turned, but, reading no hope of assistance in the infuriated eyes of Mr. Green, appealed in despair to Betty. "I don't mind," she said. "Why should I?" Mr. Widden could have supplied her with many reasons, but he refrained, and sat in sulky silence while Mr. Letts got ready.
Green, speaking very rapidly, "of them living here with us, and saving house-rent and furniture." Mr. Letts surveyed him with a dejected eye. "It would be a fine start for them," continued the benevolent Mr. Green. Mr. Letts, by a strong effort, regained his composure. "I must have a look at him first," he said, briskly. "He mightn't meet with my approval." "Eh?" said Mr. Green, starting.
"Sure I knowed yer pa's flew the coop." "What'd ye want?" Tess asked again after a moment. "I've come to settle with ye for somethin'," said Letts. "I ain't done nothin'," replied Tess. Sandy threw out an angry hand. "Ye have, too, ye have, too! Didn't I want ye for my woman, and didn't ye go an' " "I said ye couldn't have me," interrupted the girl.
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