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Every one of you get out of here as fast as your feet will carry you!" John stood up, sheepishly, Douglas eying him belligerently. "Look here, Grandma," Charleton shook his finger in the old lady's face, "I want you to understand that " "Understand!" shrilled Grandma. "Understand! You have the face to try to say anything to me, Charleton Falkner?
For an hour, Douglas sweated with Charleton. Then, as they rested for a time on the corral gate, the kitchen door opened and Grandma's head appeared. "You go, Doug," said Charleton feebly. But Grandma did not wait. "It's a boy, Charleton!" she shrieked. "A fine, big boy!" And she closed the door. Charleton sat perfectly still on the fence.
"Unbelief is the price we pay for scientific progress," said Charleton. "Me, I'm willing to pay." "I'm not," growled Peter, "but I don't see any way round it. Come on, Johnny, do your share." "I ain't going to dig any more," declared the little man. "You all say I ain't all here, and the part that ain't here is the part that works. Sabez?" Everybody laughed.
Fowler unlocked the door on Sunday morning, a skunk fled from under the pulpit out into the aspens, and there was no service that day. On the next Sunday, Charleton gave an all-day dance in the post-office hall and only half a dozen of the older people appeared at the chapel, to listen to a sermon on the Resurrection.
Judith rapidly eliminated all the women contestants and then began to vie with the men in the riding of buckers. By four o'clock as one of the four best riders, bar none, she was ready to enter the last competition on the program. This was listed as an original exhibition to be given by each of the four best riders. Douglas, Jimmy, and Charleton were the other contestants. Judith entered first.
"And I've told you to let Scott Parsons alone." "I wish I were dead!" exclaimed Jude. "Well," said Charleton casually, "I must be getting back home." No one heeded him as he clanked out the door. "How are you going to punish Jude, Dad?" demanded Douglas. "Doug," cried Judith, "you keep out of my affairs from now on! I'll show you that you can't break a promise to me."
"I heard Jimmy Day deponing at the post-office to-day that Charleton was still off on a trip." Douglas hesitated and looked at Mr. Fowler. "Go along, Douglas," said the preacher. "We'll bolt the door and no one is going to bother us two old men. You can't sit over me like a mother hen all the time, you know." "All right," agreed Douglas. "I suppose I do act like an old woman.
Fowler preached an uninterrupted sermon. Scott was present, giving apparently an undivided ear to the preacher's discourse. Charleton was there, too. He ignored Douglas entirely. He had probably told no one of his trouble with Douglas and, knowing Douglas, he apparently felt that Lost Chief would remain in ignorance of the fight.
So was Scott Parsons, who followed him, as well as Sheriff Frank Day and Jimmy Day, who brought up the procession. Judith, who had been washing dishes, hastily dumped the dish-water out of the window. Charleton, with his familiar, sardonic grin, propped Douglas up on a pillow. "What're you bringing him in here for, John?" demanded Peter harshly. "Doug's in no state for a row."
"The truth about things," she said at last. "Inez says there's just one big fact at the bottom of everything and that is sex, and that there's only one thing worth living for, to make sex beautiful." "She's a liar!" exclaimed Douglas indignantly, as if Inez had said something shameful. "Where does she get that rotten stuff?" "From Charleton and poetry, I guess. How do you know she's wrong, Doug?"
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