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Then they put some flowers on the grave, and when they returned to town and Bryce was unsaddling the ponies, Shirley drew Midget's nose down to her and kissed it. Then she commenced to weep rather violently. "What are you crying about?" Bryce demanded. Girls were so hard to understand. "I'm go-going h-h-h-home to-morrow," she howled.
The girls, he found, were already out of their tents, blankets over their heads, all shivering in the chill rain, all too cold to speak except Emma Dean. "I I to-o-old you something was go-going to happen," she stammered. "The v-v-v-voice of nature to-o-old me so." "N-n-n-nature is an old fogy," jeered Hippy mockingly.
"Go-going to ask Kathleen tonight," replied Spencer, with drunken dignity. "I'm no la-laggard. Speak to Whitney, too; though that isn't important he won't refuse." He cogitated darkly for a moment. "If he does ... I'll make things hot for him...." "Hush!" Von Fincke laid a heavy hand on Spencer's shoulder as he looked carefully about them; apparently no one was within earshot. "Collect your wits.
A man would think we were go-going to die." She said no more, but sat, half-crouching, upon the sofa, looking into the fire. Abel glanced at her, from time to time, with maudlin grins and sneers. "Go to bed," he said at length; "I've something to do. Sleep all you can; you'll need it. I shall stay here 'till I'm ready to go, and come for you in the morning."
She twisted her hands together till the laced fingers hurt. "Wha-what are you go-going to do with me?" "Make good use of you, dear child," he laughed: "be sure of that!" "What do you mean?" "What do you think?" "I don't know ..." "Really not? But there I think you do injustice to your admirable intelligence."
Sarah's lips curled with scorn. "All right, you can. You'll never see Alice again if you do." "Alice?" "Yes, she'll be drowned, and you'll have the toothache, and I'll come in the middle of the night and wake you." "I I don't care. I'm go-going home. I'll t-t-ell m-other." "Tell her. But look out afterwards, that's all." Mary remained, but Sarah regarded the rebellion as ominous.
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