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Updated: June 23, 2025
These soliloquies would go on in my mind at all hours and in all kinds of circumstances while I was pushing my way through a crowded street-car, while I was listening to some of Bender's scoldings, while I was parleying with some real-estate man over a piece of property.
Ella doesn't wear such a one, I can tell you." Just then the first bell rang, and Sal, who had mischievously recommended a mustard poultice, as being the most likely to draw Mrs. Bender's spine to a head, started to go saying, "she wanted to be there in season, so as to see the folks come in."
Early in the morning he drove to the Corners, and to Oak Run and another village called Bender's, and at each place had a notice posted, mentioning the loss and offering a reward of fifty dollars for the recovery of the property and of one hundred dollars if the thief was captured in addition.
While we was sittin' there my pa drove up in a rig, and said he was drivin' out to Bender's house that was burned, and wanted ma to go. She couldn't, and so I spoke up and asked him to take Mitch and me, and he said get in. Then Little Billie began to cry to go but pa said no, and I did.
As they walked homeward together, two women, who had been present at the funeral, discussed the matter as follows: "They took it hard, poor things, particularly the oldest." "Yes, though I didn't think she cared as much as t'other one, until she fainted, but it's no wonder, for she's old enough to dread the poor-house. Did you say they were staying at widder Bender's?"
With a bitter cry Mary threw herself upon her mother's grave, and wept for a long, long time. "It would not be so bad," said Mary, "if there was any body left, but I am all alone in the world. Ella does not love me nobody loves me." It was in vain that Jenny told her of Billy Bender's love, of her own, and George Moreland's too. Mary only wept the more, wishing that she had died, and Allie too.
Once inside the house Hal's first care was to visit the wounded men. "Bender's gone, sir?" asked Hal. "Yes," nodded Lieutenant Prescott gravely. Then they went to breakfast, for the soldier must eat or presently stop fighting. "You'll want to know my orders from Captain Cortland," said Lieutenant Prescott, filling his cup with coffee. "Yes, sir; if you feel at liberty to tell me."
Very gently Sal laid her hand on Mary's shoulder, and led her away, saying, "What would I not have given for such a command of tears when Willie's father died. But I could not weep; and my tears all turned to burning coals, which set my brain on fire." The next time Mary raised her head they were opposite Mrs. Bender's, where Sal declared it her intention to stop.
"I had trouble with those kids myself this afternoon," remarked Jack Curtiss with a scowl, as they wended their way toward a shed in the rear of Bill Bender's home, which had been fitted tip as a sort of clubroom. "What did they do to you?" incautiously inquired Sam Redding, a youth as big as the other two, but not so powerful. In fact he was used more or less as a tool by them.
If anyone appeared in the offing a couple of hundred pairs of glinting eyes shifted automatically and followed him until he disappeared, but otherwise no muscle quivered. "Say," growled Hogan, Judge Bender's private attendant, who was the first to run the gantlet, "those Chinks are enough to give you the Willies! Their eyes scared me to death, sticking me through the back!"
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