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"I was lost, I guess," and Reynolds smiled as he turned toward the sketch. "So I imagined. But, then, I fergive ye, fer I was young once meself, an' in love, too, so I know all the signs. I only wanted to know when ye expect to hit the trail on yer great adventure?" "To-morrow," was the emphatic reply. "This place won't keep me an hour longer than I can help. I am sick of it."
Amelia Ellen merely looked at her with frozen glance made fiercer by the flickering candle flare, and answered dully: "An' you knew 'bout 'em all 'long, an' yet you brung me! It ain't what I thought you'd do! Burley, he'll never fergive me s'long 's I live ef I get et up. It ain't ez if I was all alone in the world, you know.
"God fergive me fer keepin' yuh waitin', Mira!" he breathed, trying to read in her face the forgiveness that meant more to him. But she had turned away, and he did not see the tear on her lashes. Torrance's pride was becoming a devastating thing; for the moment it had run away with his sense of proportion and obliterated every superstition.
"Ef warfare lays ahead of us we hev need ter stand tergether solid an' thar's good men amongst us thet wouldn't nuver fergive affrontin' old Caleb's memory by plum lookin' over his gal's husband. Thet's my counsel, an' ef ye hain't a-goin' ter heed hit " The quiet voice ripped abruptly into an explosiveness under which some of them cowered as under a lash.
Thar nuver had been nothin' like that afore on Kingdom-Come, an' all along I heerd fellers a-layin' thar guns down; an when the preacher called out fer sinners, blame me ef the fust feller that riz wasn't Mace Day. An' Mace says, "Stranger, 'f what you say is true, I reckon the Lawd 'll fergive me too, but I don't believe Daws Dillon ever will," an' Mace stood thar lookin' around fer Daws.
"You made him believe an' made ever'body, you could, believe that I was was bad" Her breath got short, but the terrible arraignment went on. "You started this war. My brother wouldn't 'a' shot Jim Marcum if it hadn't been fer you. You killed Jim your own husband an' you killed me. An' now you want me to fergive you you!"
Five thousand seven hundred and twenty-four dollars it was, of the logging company's money; a month's pay fer the men. An' if ye see him tell him I was all to blame. Tell him to coom back; the Province'll fergive him." "And the company?" asked Bruce. "Partners both dead. Died poor. No. 'Twasn't the loss of thet money. They had many losses.
Ye aims ter hev everybody else fergive thar enemies an' lay down like lambs tergither atter ye gits teetotally done with yore own shootin' an avengin'." But Hump Doane seized the hickory staff that leaned against old Jim's chair and pounded with it on the table. "Silence!" he roared; "suffer ther feller ter git through!" "I don't aim ter bushwack ner layway nobody," went on Thornton, obdurately.
Rose-Marie clutched the child tighter in her arms. "Get some one, at once," she ordered, "if you don't want her to die if you don't want to be a murderer!" But Jim had not heard her voice. He was sobbing, gustily. "I'm t'rough," he was sobbing, "t'rough! Oh God, fergive " It was then that the door opened. And Rose-Marie, raising eyes abrim with relief, saw that Ella and Mrs.
Ef they're false ye've done struck me a blow I kain't nuver fergive, an' I don't see how you an' me kin both go on livin'. I aims ter find out fer myself, an' meanwhile I'll keep my pledge ter ye." He paused, then the leader triumphed over the stricken individual. "Keep right on goin' ter every meetin' ther riders holds," he directed, quietly. "Don't suffer 'em ter suspicion no falsity."
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