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They could pick off a three-thousand-dollar stallion down in the pens; they could drop more than one prize bull or cow; and," she added sharply, "if they thought about girls as some men think, they could take a chance on scaring Judith Sanford out of the country." Lee stared at her a long time in silence.
She had incentive enough; the ladies flocked to hear it, and one absurd maiden saw fit the next evening to simper her congratulations to Miss Sanford on "her engagement"; but by that time Marion had recovered her self-control. She met Mrs. Turner as though nothing of an unusual nature had occurred. She laughingly, even sweetly thanked the damsel, and told her she was engaged to no one.
He loved Sanford as imaginative men can who are still young, and the ugly girl's idolatry seemed natural. Yet this was very charming, the simple room, the drowsy, slender child, curled in his sheets, surrounded with song. "Thank you, Onnie," said Sanford. "I suppose she loved him a lot. It's a nice song. Goo' night." As Onnie passed her master, he saw the stupid eyes full of tears.
The train whistled, and everybody turned to watch it as it came pushing around the bluff like a huge hound on a trail, its nose close to the ground. Among the first to alight was Sanford, in a shining new silk hat and a new suit of clothes. He was smiling gaily as he fought his way through the crowd to his wife's side. "Hello!" he shouted. "I thought I'd see you all here."
Upon this company burst Barney and Sam Mace from "Hogan's Corners." They were excited by the news and already inflamed with drink. "Say!" yelled Barney, "any o' you fellers know any-thing about Jim Sanford?" "No. Why? Got any money there?" "Yes; and I'm goin' to git it out, if I haf to smash the door in." "That's the talk!" shouted some of the loafers. They sprang up and surrounded Barney.
I know something is the matter, but I'd like most awfully well to know what it is." "I can't answer your question, Jerry," said Marjorie in a low tone. "Would you care if I if we didn't talk about Constance?" "Not a bit," rejoined the stout girl good-naturedly. "Never tell anything you don't want to tell. We'll change the subject. Let's talk about the Sanford High dance.
"You can have it," said Sanford, and ran off to inquire of his mother the difference between women and ladies. Rawling, riding slowly, came up the driveway from the single lane of his village, and found the gigantic girl sitting on the steps so absorbed in this sinister toy that she jumped with a little yelp when he dismounted. "What have you there?" he asked, using his most engaging smile.
"I know Sanford Embury, bone, blood and muscle," he said; "I've not only been his physician for two years, but I've examined him, watched him and kept him in pink of condition for his athletic work. If I hadn't looked after him, he might have overdone his athletics but he didn't he used judgment, and was more than willing to follow my advice.
In fact, I exploded a bomb in the camp that will give them all something sensational to talk about till till the next scandal!" The Count gave a low chuckle of appreciation, while Mr. Ledoux asked, seriously, "But to what purpose, daughter?" "Why, papa, don't you know? I had to teach Mrs. Stuyvesant Moore, Mrs. Sanford Wyckoff, and several other old ladies how to be good!"
"Six foot three," Bill said, "and strong as an ox. Drinks all the time. Think he dopes, too." Sanford looked at the fellow with a swift dislike for his vacant, heavy face and his greasy, saffron hair. His bare arms were tattooed boldly and in many colors, distorted with ropes of muscle. He seemed a little drunk, and the green clouds cast a copper shade into his lashless eyes.
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