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"Tillie could earn her own way as my little maid helping me keep my few rooms in the Normal School building and doing my mending and darning for me. And you know after she was graduated she could earn her living as a teacher." Margaret saw the look of feverish eagerness with which Tillie heard this proposal and awaited the outcome. Before her husband could answer, Mrs. Getz offered a weak protest.
"He's so dumm he'll b'lee' most anything. If I have much more dealin's with your pop, Tillie, I'll be ketchin' on to how them novels is got up myself. And then mebbe I'll LET doctorin', and go to novel-writin'!" The doctor laughed with relish of his own joke, as Mr. Getz, grim with anger, stalked up to the buggy. "Look-ahere!"
"My girl goes home along with me!" retorted the furious Getz. "And YOU you 'll lose your job at next Board Meetin', Saturday night! So you might as well pack your trunk! Here!" He laid his hand on Tillie's arm, but Fairchilds drew her to him and held his arm about her waist, while Absalom, darkly scowling, stood uncertainly by. "Leave her with me. I must talk with her. MUST, I say. Do you hear me?
Getz, slightly roused from her customary apathy. "Well, I think they didn't! What do you think they done yet?" "I'm sure," said Tillie, evidently greatly interested in the turnips she was paring, "I don't know." "They raised his salary five a month!"
"But Sally ain't as handy as what Tillie is," said Mrs. Getz, plaintively. "And I don't see how I'm goin' to get through oncet without Tillie." "Sally's got to LEARN to be handier, that's all. She's got to get learnt like what I always learnt Tillie fur you."
As she took up her sewing, she heard him mount the steps and presently close and lock the door of his room at the head of the stairs. "He was, now, wonderful surprised, Tillie," the doctor confided to her, "when I tole him Jake Getz was your pop. He don't think your pop takes after you any.
What am I struggling FOR?" "What are you struggling FUR?" the doctor repeated. "Why, to get shed of your pop and all them kids out at the Getz farm that wears out your young life workin' for 'em! That's what! And to have some freedom and money of your own to have a little pleasure now and ag'in! I tell you, Tillie, I don't want to see you goin' out there to that farm ag'in!"
Then you can't legally do that. If you could, I would resign. Then you wouldn't even get your twelve dollars a month for my board. That's four dollars more than I can earn living out at Aunty Em's." Beside himself with his fury, Getz drew her a few steps to the closet where his strap hung, and jerking it from its nail, he swung out his arm.
I shall not go out of your life. At least we can write to each other. Now," she concluded, bending and kissing her, "I must go, but you and I shall have some talks before you stop school, and before I go away from New Canaan." She pressed her lips to Tillie's in a long kiss, while the child clung to her in passionate devotion. Mr. Getz looked on with dull bewilderment.
They had thirsted for vengeance; they had longed to humiliate this "high-minded dude"; and now not only was the opportunity lost to them, but the "job" they had determined to wrest from him was indifferently hurled back in their faces he DIDN'T WANT IT! Absalom and Getz writhed in their helpless spleen.
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