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Lawyer Young and his squatter women! Sounds nice, doesn't it?" To be loyal to herself and Deforrest, she could not help but disagree with him. "Now, Ebenezer, you oughtn't to say such a thing," she expostulated. A flame of anger shot into the elder's steady stare. "Don't you 'Now Ebenezer' me!" he snorted. "Young's making my lake property a disorderly house. It's positively indecent!
"Why, honey, Waldstricker air got as much chance a ketchin' you as a tallow dog has chasin' an asbestos cat through hell." "Deforrest is so interested in the little Skinner girl," Helen Young explained to Ebenezer Waldstricker when they were alone after supper. "Ever since he helped to get her father out of Auburn, he's done all he could for her."
Sometimes, she whispered to him, sometimes, she sang very softly, and, when Deforrest Young and the warden came through the hospital ward to her side, Tessibel had piloted Owen Bennet through the darkness into a marvelous light. Lysander Letts wanted to get married and settle down in a home of his own.
The strange new quality in his caress aroused an answering thrill the length of her body. In that moment she discovered how deeply she loved Deforrest Young. "Don't ... don't kiss me! Never, never kiss me again." What was it she had said? The man felt his heart contract with a shooting pain. "Why, child, I've kissed you since you were a little girl.... Why shouldn't I?"
"You needn't see her.... She's been justly dealt with." There was no answer from the tall lawyer. Only one thing was in Deforrest Young's mind to go to Tessibel Skinner. He gave no thought to the wild night, no care for his own fatigue and hunger. Disdaining another glance at Ebenezer, he whirled to go. Helen's pale face appearing in the doorway made him pause. "Deforrest," she quivered.
His mother carried him away half an hour later, and when she went to Andy's room, she found Young there talking to the dwarf. "I've such a lot to tell you two," said he. "Now we're all comfy, I'll begin." "Will it please Andy?" asked Tess. Deforrest shook his head. "I'm afraid not!... Bennet won't have to stay long in prison and he still insists he didn't do the shooting and that Andy did."
She only knew that Deforrest Young was offering herself and her little child a home, and a safe refuge for Andy Bishop. "It won't be all for you, you understand, child," said Deforrest. "Think! I'll have a home, too, and you can study and work." "An' some day when I'm earnin' money, and Andy's free, we'll pay you all back," the girl interjected.
"But, Deforrest, don't you think if you talked to Ebenezer, he'd see things differently?" "I'm afraid not," said he, adjusting Mrs. Waldstricker's furs. "You see, Eb's always had his own way in most things, and I can't take any other position about Tess, and I won't." "I wish you would come home with me," sighed Mrs. Waldstricker, when her brother was tucking the sleigh robe about her.
"I'll treat her as she deserves," snapped Waldstricker.... "If Deforrest weren't so stubborn and hadn't rented Graves' place for the next four years, I'd do my best to oust the Skinners from that property.... One thing is certain, the old witch has got to go." Helen sighed, exasperated. Her husband's face was crimson and the cords in his neck as rigid as taut ropes.
Tessibel loved the shanty and always would love it, but more did she love the home in which she now lived. Her fingers played idly with the child's dark curls. All that Deforrest Young had done for her in the past years swept before her mind like a panorama. How safe he'd made it for Andy! How the little man had improved! How delightful their studies together!
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