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I appreciate, child, that's no excuse for me. Nor did I know, then, that you were married " He stopped, the bitter pain in his throat aching his voice into silence. "Mr. Graves is dead," he whispered, "and my sister " "Oh, I'm so sorry for her, Mr. Waldstricker," cried Tess, struggling up. Deforrest stepped forward to Ebenezer's side and supported her. "Yes, you would be," the elder asserted.
At length: "We put a member out of the church last Wednesday," said he, steadily. Deforrest Young turned completely around and stared at his brother-in-law. "Put a member out of the church!" he repeated, thunder-struck. "Why church a member?... That is out of the ordinary, I should say. What'd he do?" "It wasn't a man, 'twas a woman." "Well, for God's sake!"
"I can't ever thank you all enough," she flung back hoarsely, tucking the whip into her coat pocket, "for giving me this chance at Waldstricker." Longman got up and opened the door and Tess stepped out into the storm, carrying Waldstricker's daughter. Deforrest Young was trying to calm his sister.
Professor Young took the paper, and before reading it, looked reassuringly at Tess with that wide, white-toothed smile of his that always cheered her heart. "Sit down," he told her. "You do look tired, child." With one swift glance at Waldstricker's face, she obeyed him. Deforrest merely glanced at the paper in his hand. "Oh, is that all you have?" he asked the constable.
He realized immediately with what joy that stern disciplinarian would snatch the little man back into Auburn prison. Doubtless, too, he would visit his rage on the girl who'd shielded him. "Ye helped Daddy git out o' jail," Tess whispered. "Couldn't ye keep Andy out?" Deforrest Young turned his face to the ceiling. A pair of gleaming eyes were staring down upon him from the square hole.
Deforrest says she's very good to the other squatters." "They're an unseemly mess." The man struck at an overhanging bough savagely. "And your brother has power enough to remove the worst of them if he wanted to. That old hag, for instance " "Deforrest wouldn't do it," interjected Helen. "He may if I make it worth his while," replied Waldstricker.
A huge sob tore its way from the lawyer's throat, and burst fiercely through his teeth. Was she dead, his dearest who had received evil, perhaps death, for the good she had done? Above his head the limbs of a great tree sang their song of winter to the night. Deforrest remembered Tess had always loved the whispering of the wind. A low cry followed by words fell from his lips.
And really, I don't believe she did, for she tells everything to Deforrest and she'd tell him that, I'm sure." Madelene shook her head incredulously. "I feel perfectly positive he wrote her," she asserted. "Well, perhaps! " said Helen. Then they were silent a few moments. "I suppose you haven't guessed something I have to tell you," stammered Helen, presently.
When the name fell upon Deforrest Young's ears, every muscle in his body became rigid, making him taller by inches. "Tessibel Skinner?" he repeated mechanically, as if he'd heard awry. "Did you say Tessibel Skinner?" Waldstricker took a long breath. Deforrest was receiving the action of the church with better grace than he had anticipated. "Yes, Tessibel Skinner!" he repeated. "She's with child."
"I'd do anything I could," she answered shyly, a lovely red dyeing her face. "I knew you would! Mr. Young has told me how anxious you are to learn and to improve your condition.... Isn't that so?" Tess nodded, looking from the speaker to Deforrest, who threw her his ever-ready smile. Her gaze returned to the churchman and he continued,
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