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He thought of the ranch wagon, and of Buddy's offer, and it occurred to him that unless he was too far off the regular course he might attract Buddy. It was a chance, anyway. "I've been 'most dead, too, for a week," suddenly began the other. "I 'ain't eat regularly, for one thing 'most a month of that, I reckon. Been times, too, when I couldn't couldn't find water.
Buddy's a man, an' some men just have to get married the sooner it's over, the better for 'em. He's like that. But what's more 'n all that, love between two young people is a pretty sacred thing, an' when old folks keep interferin' it seems to me they're settin' themselves up to be wiser than God. Ma's folks didn't care much for me."
Sometimes I wake up nights dreamin' we're all back at the old place an' pore again. That ends my sleepin'. You see, Allie's a lady now, an' she's used to silk stockin's, an' Buddy's been out in the world spendin' money on women, an' Ma's gettin' old. I could go back to corn bread, but it would kill them. Worst of it is, the black lime ain't holdin' up, an' our wells will give out some day."
"I left the explaining for him." Gus smiled meditatively. "First we knew that you an' him had been fightin' was when he wrote us a letter sayin' he was doin' great an' could see out of one eye." Then, more gravely: "It was worryin' over Buddy's affair that got Ma to ailin'. She 'ain't been right well since. Say, wha'd you do with that woman?"
Pigg was such a nice, gentle kind of a creature that he didn't dare refuse him. "Very well," said Buddy's papa, "step into the parlor, Mr. Fox, and I'll see what I can do for you. There ought to be something in the pantry."
I flatter myself that I'm quite as lawless and broad minded as the average bachelor of our very smartest set." "I'm " the speaker gulped. "I'm goin' to marry her." "Oh, fine!" Gray's enthusiasm was positively electric. He seized Buddy's hand and crushed it. "Education, indeed! No use for that now, is there?" "I mean I'm goin' to, if I can; if she'll let me." "Let you? With your money?
Dere's a big wiver comin' now Crumpy smelt a big wiver." Buddy's mother stared across the arid plain parched into greater barrenness by the heat that had been unremitting for the past week. Buddy's faith in the big river she could not share. Somehow they had drifted off the trail marked on the map drawn by George Williams.
The men who stood nearest bent their heads and shielded their faces from the heat. Allie tore her eyes away from the spectacle finally. She turned back to the bed, then she halted, for it was empty. The door, still ajar from Buddy's headlong exit, informed her whence her patient had gone, and she flew after him. She found him not half a dozen paces away.
She followed Buddy out, and called to Ezra who was chopping wood with a grunt for every fall of the axe and many rest periods in the shade of the cottonwood tree. At the stable, Buddy looked back and saw her talking earnestly to Ezra, who stood nodding his head in complete approval. Buddy's knowledge of women began and ended with his mother.
Kate rose up then in all the terrifying dignity of outraged motherhood, grasped Buddy by the wrist, and led him away, in the direction of the hairbrush, if one would judge by Buddy's reluctance to go. "So you are going to climb the Big Hill, are you?" Miss Josephine observed, when the two were quite alone. "It is to be hoped, Mr.
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