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"Yes," I said, much impressed by George Olver's manner. He was held somewhat in awe among the Wallencampers, and regarded generally as a "close-mouthed" fellow. "I hear," he resumed; "that Dave Rollin has been down this way ag'in. They say it was lucky for him I wasn't to home that day; maybe so. Ef he'd a turned up suddenly in my path I can't say I might 'a' trod on him.
There's fairer day to rest ye arter storm. All's well! all's well! he says; 'all's well beyent. All's well along this shore!" Here George Olver's husky voice failed him; sobs rose in the room.
He smiled that window-glass looking smile of his, and says; 'Ah, thank you; now I won't detain you any longer, Mrs. Keeler, and out he went. "I suppose he's come down to smooth everything over, and have it hushed up with Beck and her folks. Well, money'll do a good deal for a man, but it wouldn't stand him much if he got into George Olver's hands.
Aunt Patty had passed on to the doorway of another neighbor, and George Olver's relations with Rebecca soon constituted the theme of a more general and lively discourse, in which the remarks concerning Rebecca were mostly kind and considerate, and the praise of George Olver's conduct enthusiastic; and, at the close of which, I remember, Grandma said that "the higher minded folks gits to be, the pitifuller they be a'most always!"
"You know what he done, teacher. He took the best, and when he got tired on't, he threw it away," the brawny hand at George Olver's side was clinched so as to appear almost colorless, yet there was little discomposure in his voice "but cursin' him ain't a goin' to help us now.
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