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" the first time I ever heard of it," I replied, concealing my pride in the invitation, under show of being disgruntled.... That was Penton's way, arranging things first, telling you afterward. "But you will do it? I have said you would!" "Yes, Penton, if you wish me to!"
"You'd best look out, when Penton's lazy little wife waits on you ... she is the one who generally demands to be waited on, and if " And now, for the moment, all of us were combined against the master of the house ... furtively and jocularly combined, like naughty children....
"Come on down and join us, Ruth, we're having a cup of coffee a-piece." "It's only two o'clock ... what's everybody doing up so early? Has Penton come back?" "No ... but do come down and join us," I replied. "I tell you, I thought it was burglars at first, and I was going to the drawer in Penton's room and get out his six-shooter." "Does Penton keep a gun?" I asked.
Darrie, who had been to town the week before, had come back with a report of Penton's unhappiness, his belated acknowledgment that he was still, in spite of his battle against the feeling, deeply in love with his discarded wife.
"I wasn't rebuking either you or Johnnie ... it isn't that I'm thinking of at all ... but everything has been so uncanny here to-night ... I could not sleep ... every little rustle of curtains, every creak or motion in the whole house vibrated through me ... something's going to happen to someone." "You're only upset because Penton's in jail," I explained.
My heart almost burst with happiness within me, as those tiny hands, that had run through my hair and been so wonderful with me ... hands that I had kissed and fondled in secret joined in unison with Penton's and Darrie's and Ruth's hand-claps.
Now I was part and parcel of the household, no longer a stranger-friend on a visit. Though Penton's jail-experience did not thrill me, the continued thronging of reporters did, as did Baxter's raging desire to do good for the poor ordinary prisoners in jail. He had got at several of them who had received a raw deal in the courts, and was moving heaven and earth to bring redress to them.
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