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"Don't you say one word against Jim," said Eva again. "If ever I hear anybody say one word against him I'll " "You don't mean you're goin' to stan' up for him, Eva Tenny?" "As long as I draw the breath of life, and after, if I know anything," declared Eva.
"I guess so," replied Ellen, laughing. Amabel, looking from one to the other, also began to laugh unwillingly. Then the sitting-room door opened, and Fanny called sharply and imperatively, "Amabel, Amabel; come!" Amabel clung more tightly to Ellen, who began to gently loosen her arms. "Amabel Tenny, come this minute. It is your bed-time," said Fanny.
At the worst it would merely mean anticipating a little; for if he did succeed in solving the problem of Tex Lynch's motives, the next and final step would naturally be up to the sheriff. "I get yuh," said Tenny, nodding. "That's true enough. Well, what do you want me to do?" Buck told him briefly, and the foreman's eyes twinkled. "That's some order," he commented.
Jim Tenny, with his hand on Eva's arm, pushed his way through the crowd. "Where you goin', Jim?" asked the pretty girl at his elbow, but he pushed past her roughly, and did not seem to hear. Eva's face was all inflamed and convulsed with sobs, but she did not dream of covering it she was full of the holy shamelessness of grief and joy. "Let me see her! let me see her!
He had corrected that imperfect invoice and sent it on to White & Tenny. He had reminded his employer that their stock of compasses was low and should be replenished. He had directed young Winters to answer that cablegram from Kingston. Try as he would, he could think of no omission. The books were strictly up to date and everything was moving in the usual routine. Ah, there he had it! Routine!
Jim Tenny grasped Eva's arm with a grasp like a vise. "Come this way," said he, sharply. "Come this way, Eva." "Oh, Jim! oh, Jim!" Eva sobbed again; but she followed him, little Ellen's golden fleece tossing over her shoulder. "She's got her; she's got her!" shouted the people. Then the leather-stained hands gyrated, the cheers went up, and again the whistles blew.
Come, Amabel." Eva and Amabel went away, the child rolling eyes of terror and interrogation at them, Eva impervious to all her sister's pleading. When Andrew heard what had happened, and Fanny repeated what Eva had said, his blame for Jim Tenny was unqualified. "I've had a hard time enough, knocked about from pillar to post, and I know what she means when she talks about a checker-board.
"Here," said she to Ellen, "you pour out a quarter of a tumbler of this, and fill it up with hot water. I ain't goin' to have the whole family in an asylum because Jim Tenny has run off with another woman, if I can help it!" The old woman's steady force of will asserted itself over the hysterical nature of her daughter-in-law.
"I dunno as I've put it off; I dunno as I want to get married, anyhow," Eva said, still laughing. "I dunno, but I'd rather be old maid aunt to Ellen." "Eva Loud," cried her sister; "do you know what you are doin'?" "Pretty well, I reckon," said Eva. "Do you know that if you put off Jim Tenny, and he not likin' it, ten chances to one Aggie Bemis will get hold of him again?"
Andrew looked so pale that people nudged one another to look at him. Mrs. Zelotes settled back, relaxing stiffly from her fierce attitude. Fanny wiped her forehead with a cheap lace-bordered handkerchief. There was a stifled sob farther back, that came from Eva Tenny, who sat back on account of a break across the shoulders in the back of her silk dress.
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