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Maybe he's been in there to-day." "Oh, won't you go in and see?" said Trina. "Mac always came home to his supper he never likes to miss his meals and I'm getting frightened about him." Heise went into the barroom next door, and returned with no definite news. Frenna had not seen the dentist since he had come in with the harness-maker the previous afternoon.
Does might make right?" "You must make less noise in here, Mister Schouler," said Frenna, from behind the bar. "Well, it makes me mad," answered Marcus, subsiding into a growl and resuming his chair. "Hullo, Mac." "Hullo, Mark." But McTeague's presence made Marcus uneasy, rousing in him at once a sense of wrong. He twisted to and fro in his chair, shrugging first one shoulder and then another.
The thrown knife, the attempt on his life, was beyond his solution; but the breaking of his pipe he understood clearly enough. "I'll show him," he exclaimed. As though they had been little children, McTeague set Frenna and the harness-maker aside, and strode out at the door like a raging elephant. Heise stood rubbing his shoulder. "Might as well try to stop a locomotive," he muttered.
"No, he was crazy, I tell you crazy in the head. Thought she was hiding some money from him." Frenna did a big business all day long. The murder was the one subject of conversation. Little parties were made up in his saloon parties of twos and threes to go over and have a look at the outside of the junk shop.
He got up and clapped on his hat. "Now, Doctor," remonstrated Heise, standing between him and the door, "don't go make a fool of yourself." "Let 'um alone," joined in Frenna, catching the dentist by the arm; "he's full, anyhow." "He broke my pipe," answered McTeague. It was this that had roused him.
A regular greaser trick!" "Look out he don't stab you in the back. If that's the kind of man he is, you never can tell." Frenna drew the knife from the wall. "Guess I'll keep this toad-stabber," he observed. "That fellow won't come round for it in a hurry; goodsized blade, too." The group examined it with intense interest. "Big enough to let the life out of any man," observed Heise.
He could not reinstate himself in that mood of wrath wherein he had left the corner grocery. The tooth had changed all that. What was Marcus Schouler's hatred to him, who had Trina's affection? What did he care about a broken pipe now that he had the tooth? Let him go. As Frenna said, he was not worth it.
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