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Half an hour later he cautiously carried a dish-pan full of water to the porch and stared in amazement at the place where he had left Bobberts and his parents. They were gone!
Fenelby wiped her hands hurriedly and rapidly untied her apron. "I hate to waken Bobberts," she said, "but I will! I'd do anything to have that tariff unpassed again." Mr. Fenelby put his hand on her arm, restraining her as she was about to rush from the kitchen. "Wait, Laura!" he said. "You forget that you and I are not the only States now. Kitty and Billy are States, too.
Just then they reached the station and the train arrived and Mr. Fenelby jumped aboard, and as it pulled out Billy turned and walked back to the house. When the Commonwealth of Bobberts had adopted the Fenelby Domestic Tariff it had been Mrs. Fenelby's duty to inform Bridget of it, and to explain it to her, and for two days Mrs. Fenelby worried about it.
He had a dim remembrance that stoves of some kind sometimes exploded, and he did not want to risk an explosion by tampering with an unknown stove. He felt that a stove and Bobberts both exploding at the same time would have been more than the Fenelbys could have borne.
Fenelby was laughing openly and Tom was pleased with the excellence of his joke. Billy raised his head angrily and strode out of the room, and Kitty, from whose face the smile had fled, started up with blazing eyes. "I think you are horrid!" she cried, turning to Bobberts' laughing parents. "I think you ought to thank him instead of making fun of him.
And if she brought up the matter of the Commonwealth, you know you did make Kitty and me full partakers in it." "Tom," said Mrs. Fenelby, "pay her a month's wages and let her go!" Mr. Fenelby moved uneasily. He had put all his money into Bobberts' bank. In all the house there was not a month's wages except in Bobberts' bank. Mr. Fenelby looked toward the bank. "Never!" said Billy.
"But if they do we will end the whole thing." "We can't send them away," said Laura. "We couldn't be so rude as that." "No," said Mr. Fenelby, "but we will secede. You and I and Bobberts will secede from the Union. I never believed in secession, Laura, but I see now that there are times when conditions become so intolerable that there is nothing else to do.
"It will do us all good to walk down to the station, and we will take Bobberts." Billy stood still. The cheerful expression that had rested on his face faded. There would be a pretty lot of trouble if the whole lot of them went in a group, and he wondered that Kitty did not see this, and why she did not say something to dissuade Mrs. Fenelby from leaving the house.
I put into that trunk nearly everything I own in this world, just because the trunk was so big that it would hold everything, and it seemed a pity to bring a big trunk like that with nothing in it but air. Now, I could take my suit-case and put into it the things I will really need " "Certainly," said Mr. Fenelby. "You can do that if you want to, and it would be perfectly fair to Bobberts.
"I put money into that, and so did Kitty. It is for Bobberts, not for month's wages. I object." Mr. Fenelby looked away from the bank. He looked, helplessly, all around the room, and ended by looking at Laura. "My dear," he said, "I think we had better keep Bridget." "I think ye had!" said Bridget. "For there ain't no way t' git rid of me. I'm here, ma'am, an' I don't bear no ill will.
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