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Updated: May 7, 2025
"I don't believe it, Bill; don't believe it because I don't feel it. But don't tell the old folks that I'm not hopeful. Have you seen Millie?" "No, and have seen Chyd but once, and then I came upon him in the road." "What, hasn't he been to the house? A fine husband he'll make for Guinea. Tell her that I say she must forbid his coming near her again. No, don't," he added. "It's better to wait.
I hastened down stairs, and at the entrance of the passage stood Chyd Lundsford, looking about, slowly lashing his leg with a switch. "Helloa! Where are all the folks?" "They are gone, sir," I answered, stiffly bowing to him. "Gone? I don't know that I quite catch your meaning." "If it be illusive you have made it so. I said that they were gone, which means, of course, that they are not here."
It must have been, for whenever she spoke of Chyd she was deeply serious. I was resentful as I led the old mare toward the mill. Oh, I understood it all. She had seen that I sought to punish her, had read me as we sat together at the table, and now she was torturing me.
And I wish my word could settle it I'd speak it, though it might hurt my chances at the General's. Well, let's go to the house." Guinea and Chyd, old Lim and his wife went to church the next day, leaving Alf and me alone. Alf held himself in reasonable restraint until the old people were gone, and then he broke out so violently that I really feared for his reason.
"You have been over to the General's, along with Chyd and Guinea, haven't you? Of course, you have what's the use of asking that? Do you know what I did to-day? Not long after dinner I went over there determined to find out how I stood. I was brave until I got nearly to the house and then my courage failed. I stood by the fence in the blackberry briars and gazed at the house.
But I am going to see her." Then I told him that Chyd had come to the house I reproduced the scene, and Alf's merriment rang throughout the jail. "Yes," he said, "you can go over there all right enough. The General likes you, anyway. I don't know what he thinks of me still sizes me as a boy, I suppose; and if he were to come in here now I believe he would ask me what father was doing.
"There should be no doubt about the matter, for I must tell you that if he touches my foot I'll kill him. A cat would travel ten miles and swim a river and a cat hates water to claw a gouty foot. Chyd, just put that book aside if you please." The young man folded the pamphlet and shoved it into his pocket. "I've struck a new germ theory," he said.
Your daughter is exceedingly sorry that she acted " "Where is she, sir?" "She has come with me, but fearing that your resentment " "What, is she out there waiting in the dark? What, my child out there waiting to know whether she can come into her father's house? I will go to her, sir. Come, Chyd, let us both go." I stepped to the door and stood confronting the old man and his son.
"Yes, you can go," said the General. He stooped, reached back for the lounge and laboriously stretched himself upon it. Chyd went out and I remarked that it was time for me to go.
Jucklin was sitting at the window when the hearse and the buggies came within sight, and her chin was unsteady as she reached for her book. And there she sat, holding the old leather-covered Bible in her lap. I had thought that Chyd Lundsford would come, with words of encouragement, but we saw him not, neither that day nor the next. But four days later I came upon him as I was going to town.
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