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"This Hagar," Phoebe announced cheerfully; and the old squaw caught the girl's hand and gripped it tightly for a moment in malicious enjoyment of her too evident fear and repulsion. "This Viney." Viney, reading Evadna's face in one keen, upward glance, kept her hands hidden in the folds of her blanket, and only nodded twice reassuringly. "This Lucy."
He was hurt most unreasonably because of Evadna's behavior, and he felt as if he were groping about blindfolded so far as the Hart trouble was concerned. There must be something to do, but he could not see what it was.
All hurts MY feelings is, I didn't get a whack at the old devil myself!" It was a long speech for Wally to make, and he made it with deliberate malice. "Now you're shouting!" applauded Gene, also with the intent to be shocking. "THAT'S the stuff," approved Clark, grinning at Evadna's horrified eyes.
In the same tongue Grant answered him sharply, and after that was silence broken only by the subdued table sounds. Evadna's eyes filled slowly until she finally pushed back her chair and hurried out into the yard and away from the dogged silence of that blanketed figure at her elbow.
Evadna's door was barricaded, as Phoebe discovered when she turned the knob and attempted to walk in. She gave the door an indignant push, and heard a muffled shriek within, as if Evadna's head was buried under her pillow. "My grief! A body'd think you expected to be killed and eaten," she called out unsympathetically. "You open this door! Vadnie Ramsey.
"Oh, I know." Evadna's tone was resentful. "From Adam down to you, it has always been 'The woman, she tempted me. You're perfectly horrid, even if you have apologized. 'The woman, she tempted me, and " "I beg your pardon; the woman didn't," he corrected blandly. "The woman insisted on scrapping. That's different." "Oh, it's different! I see. I have almost forgotten something I ought to say, Mr.
I hadn't heard about the dead tarantula on your pillow, or the rattler coiled up on the porch, or any of those innocent little jokes. But if the rest are making it their business to devil the life out of you, why common humanity forces me to apologize and tell you I'm out of it from now on." "Oh! Thank you very much." Evadna's tone might be considered ironical.
He took the trouble to make that clear to me, at least!" Evadna's eyes were very blue and very bright, but there was no look of an angel in her face. Miss Georgie pressed her lips together tightly for a minute. When she spoke, she was cheerfully impersonal as to tone and manner. "Chicken, you're a little goose. The man is simply crazy about you, and harassed to death with this ranch business.
Evadna's tone was perfectly polite which was a bad sign. Good Indian thought he saw the makings of a quarrel in her general attitude, and he thought he might as well get at once to the real root of her resentment. "What are you thinking about? Tell me, Goldilocks," he coaxed, pushing his own troubles to the back of his mind. "Oh, nothing.
"All the folks b'longum my brother's wife, heap lazy all time. Me no likum. Agent one time givum plenty flour, plenty meat, plenty tea. Huh. Them damn' folks no eatum. All time playum cards, drinkum whisky. All time otha fella ketchum flour, ketchum meat, ketchum tea ketchum all them thing b'longum." In the rhetorical pause he made there, his black eyes wandered inadvertently to Evadna's face.
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