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Updated: May 15, 2025
"What do you mean?" "You didn't hear buggy-wheels last night along towards two o'clock?" "No, but you don't mean to say? Lawyer Barkman!" And Bancroft started up with horror in his look. The Elder stared at him, with rigid face and wild eyes, but as he gradually took in the sincerity of the young man's excitement, he turned, and left the room.
In this mood they reached the homestead. Loo alighted at the gate; she wouldn't allow Barkman even to get down; he was to go right off at once, but when he returned she'd meet him. With a grave respectful bow he lifted his hat, and drove away. On the whole, he had reason to be proud of his diplomacy; reason, too, for saying to himself that at last he had got on "the inside track."
If you're sot upon it! That's enough fer me, I guess, ef you're rale sot on it, and you don't think 'twould be better like to wait a little. He could study with Barkman fer a year anyway without losin' time. No! wall, wall. I'm right thar when you want me. I'll go to work to do what I kin.... "P'r'aps we might sell off and go East, too. The farm's worth money now it's all settled up round hyar.
Barkman was kind, and good to her; but she didn't care for him, and she loved George still. Oh, why wasn't he like the other, always sympathetic and admiring? She sat and thought. In the depths of her nature she felt that she couldn't give George up, couldn't make up her mind to lose him; and why should she, since they loved each other? What could she do? Of a sudden she paused.
He was still determined not to be seduced into making Loo his wife. But now the jealousy that is born of desire and vanity tormented him, and the mere thought that Barkman might marry and live with her irritated him intensely. She was worthy of better things than marriage with such a man.
Was it Bancroft's jealousy that made him smile contemptuously as he, too, glanced at her? If so, the disdain was ill-timed. Flushing slightly, she answered, "I guess I'll be pleased to do what I can," and she met the schoolmaster's eyes defiantly as she spoke. With the advent of Barkman upon the scene a succession of new experiences began for Bancroft.
Barkman," she retorted, with a smiling glance at the lawyer, "I guess I must give in; if Mr. Bancroft thinks I ought ter, there's no more to be said. I'm willin'." An evening or two later, Barkman having gone into Wichita, Bancroft asked Loo to go out with him upon the stoop.
"You have a man with you whose trade is talk. I'm not needed," was his curt reply. Half-incensed, half-gratified by his passionate exclamation, she drew back, while Barkman, advancing, said: "Good day, Mr. Bancroft, good day. I was just tryin' to persuade Miss Conklin to come for another drive this evenin' in order to get this business of ours settled as soon as possible." "Another drive."
And she cried again a little, but these tears relieved her, did her good. She tried to look at the whole position steadily. Barkman would take her away to New York. Marry him? she didn't want to, but she wouldn't make up her mind now; she'd go away with him if he'd be a real friend to her. Only he mustn't put his arm round her again; she didn't like him to do that.
She was vain, no doubt, and lacking in the finer sensibilities, the tremulous moral instincts which are the crown and glory of womanhood; but it was not her fault that her education had been faulty, her associates coarse and after all she was very beautiful. On returning home one afternoon he saw Barkman walking with her in the peach orchard.
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