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Updated: May 19, 2025
"It's all right, Mr. Arp," began Joe, tremulously. "You mustn't " "Hark to me" the old man's voice lifted higher: "If you'd ever whimpered, or give back-talk, or broke out the wrong way, it would of been different. But you never did.
He's a seed of trouble and iniquity, and anything of that kind is sure to come back to Canaan!" Mr. Arp stuck to his prediction for several months; then he began to waver and evade.
Wallingsby had the three-hundred-odd Skilkan laborers at work; he had gathered up all the tarpaulin he could find, and had the two sewing-machines in the tentmaker's shop running on sandbags. Jules Keaveney, to von Schlichten's agreeable surprise, had taken hold of his ARP assignment, and was doing an efficient job in organizing for fire-fighting, damage-control and first aid.
"Sho!" said Uncle Joe Davey, his breath recovered. "He wanted to walk up past Judge Pike's, to see if there wasn't a show of Mamie's bein' at the window, and give her a chance to look at that college uniform and banjo-box and new walk of his." Mr. Arp began to show signs of uneasiness.
"En passant," if nothing else, would have revealed to Joe, in this imitation of a better trick, the hand of Eugene. And, little doubt, he would have agreed with Squire Buckalew in the Squire's answer to the easily expected comment of Mr. Arp. "Sometimes," said Eskew, "I think that 'Gene Bantry is jest a leetle bit spiderier than he is lazy.
He did not speak or move and the workmen uncovered their heads as they went out, but Joe knew that they were mistaken. "It's all right, Mr. Arp," he said, as Ariel knelt by the bed with water and restoratives. "It's all right. Don't you worry."
"I suppose," said Ranny, harking back, "some women are like that." "Like what now?" She didn't want to go back to it. She was afraid of what she might be driven to say. "Not caring much about their own kids." "Oh, Ranny, why do you 'arp on it?" "Because I don't understand it. It's just the one thing I can't understand. What does it mean, Mother?"
Lieutenant Colonel Warren laughed abruptly. "So do we here theoretically. We are free, whatever that means. However," he added sarcastically, "it does help to have good schooling, good connections, relatives in positions of prominence, abundant shares of good stocks, that sort of thing. And these one is born with, in this free world of ours, Colonel Arp
"We'll sit here on the bench, sha'n't we?" Mamie had risen, and skirting Norbert frostily, touched Eugene upon the shoulder as she went up the steps. He understood that he was to follow her in-doors, and, after a deep look at the bench where Ariel had seated herself beside Mr. Arp, he obeyed. Norbert was left a lonely ruin between the cold, twin dogs.
"Yes, that's so," came a chorus of the brethren, finding comfort and reassurance as their voices and spirits began to recover from the blight. "There's a party at the Judge's to-night," said Mr. Bradbury "kind of a ball Mamie Pike's givin' for the young folks. Quite a doin's, I hear." "That's another thing that's ruining Canaan," Mr. Arp declared, morosely.
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