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Updated: May 4, 2025
"I guess it couldn't ever come to that a-tween you an' me. I'll be all right." He shrugged his great shoulders. "It's just kinder sudden, that's all. You see, I never figured on givin' yer up, and when you said you wasn't comin' back, it kinder seemed as though I couldn't see nothin' all my life but long, dusty roads, and nobody in 'em.
Knapp lifted his face. "Ah," said he. "And fancy me layin there listenin, just the thick of the door a-tween us." He stared at the hands upon his knees. "I made shift to get on my legs, but lor bless you! I couldn't stir. It was all, 'O my God, send a thunder-bolt and put him out of his pain! "Then he groan again.
He's set his course for the Old Country.... Now just lay me on the floor, and prop me up against the wall same as Soldier there." Knapp was sobbing now. "Same as Soldier there, he repeated. 'There weren't to be no difference a-tween us. O no! 'Same as Soldier there, he says and me pull his nose only yesterday!
"Well, Paul," he said, "I've seen 'em off, an' a-tween you and me, I'd rather be right here on this here haunted islan', a-hobnobbin' with Injun ghosts an' havin' a good, comfortable, easy time, than be dodgin' braves, an' feelin' every minute to see ef my scalp is on out thar among the Injun villages." "You don't think they'll be taken?" asked Paul, in some alarm.
Him that's allus talkin' about lovin' our neighbours as ourselves, standin' a-tween us an' our natral rights. I hev often told Eudora, heven't I, dear? that we need a better place than this. Now, that Frenelle homestead is jist what we want, an' it seemed as if the Lord intended we should hev it, too. It is so included from all pryin' eyes, an' away from them country people who are so uncongenial.
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