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So he stood up and raised his hand, and said to the schoolma'am, "Please, ma'am, I 've got the stomach-ache; may I go home?" For a moment John was delighted to get out of school so early; but soon his guilt took all the light out of the summer sky and the pleasantness out of nature. He had to walk slowly, without a single hop or jump, as became a diseased boy.
Its body, swelling out corpulently below the iron belt, glowed red; and Happy Jack's wolf-skin overcoat was beginning to exhale a rank, animal odor. It never occurred to him that he might change his seat; he unbuttoned the coat absently and perspired. He was waiting to see if the schoolma'am said anything about "Under the Mistletoe" with red fire and Annie Pilgreen.
"You know I didn't mean anything, Girlie." "I do not consider it a little thing," said the schoolma'am, icily. Thus rebuffed, Weary walked silently beside her up the hill silently, that is, save for the subdued jingling of his spurs. He was beginning to realize that there was an uncomfortable, heavy feeling in his chest, on the side where his heart was.
"I expect she did that's Myrt, every rattle uh the box," Weary cut in dryly. "And she she said you had to leave home in the night " "Oh, she did, eh? Well, Girlie, if the time-table hasn't changed, Miss Myrt Forsyth sneaked off the same way. The train west leaves or did leave Chadville along about midnight, so Say, it feels good to be back, little schoolma'am. You don't know how good "
The elder and the schoolma'am went in the grubs and sat down on a log, and there she unfolded to him her tale of woe. It appears that she had violated one of the rules of the church by dancing, and she felt that she ought to confess, and did confess. She cried like a child, and seemed to be weak, and the elder put his arm around her to keep her from falling off the log.
When he returned to his seat, which was decidedly not comfortable just then, the teacher smiled a real, sure-enough schoolma'am smile, and remarked that she hoped our brilliant scholar, Mister Champneys, knew now what the boy got for his chestnuts. The class laughed as good scholars are expected to laugh on such occasions.
This young rooster from college licked a dozen or so, and then took the schoolma'am and drove clear to Jumpoff with her, and licked everybody in town before he left. Sa-ay, it musta been some dance, all right! "Then here comes the funny part.
The fall term had ended, and the schoolma'am was going home; no more school till spring. A year before Job had stood in the great congregation and taken the solemn vow to be loyal forever to Christ and his church; to-night the Christmas service went on without him.
But Happy never thought of blaming the schoolma'am for the eighteen dollars he lost. Neither did he blame her for the nightmares which tormented his sleep during the week that followed or the vague uneasiness that filled his waking hour, even when he was not thinking directly of the ghost that dogged him.
The Happy Family laughed feeble acquiescence. "I won't need to," Weary told them blandly. "You all gave the schoolma'am leave to put down your names, and its up to you to make good. If yuh haven't got nerve enough to stay in the game till the deck's shuffled yuh hadn't any right to buy a stack uh chips." "Yeah that's right," Cal Emmett admitted frankly, because shyness and Cal were strangers.
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