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"He's jumped the fence," cried Virgie. "He's cutting across our fields! He sees me! He's waving his hat to me!" With the last words the child suddenly jumped down from the bench and ran through the opening in the hedge, leaving her mother gazing after her in sudden consternation. "Name we Gawd! Miss Hallie," gasped Uncle Billy. "You reckon she done brought somebody, sho' 'nuff? Hi! Hi!
"Thank you, Miss Hallie," he gulped, "but f'um now on I reckon I gwine take keer of myse'f." Mrs. Cary, pausing on the bottom step, raised her eyes heavenward in a short prayer that children such as these might somehow be protected from themselves. "Well, James," she said, when she saw there was nothing more to be done. "I hope you'll be happy and contented. If you are not come back to us.
It seemed now, in the broad daylight, as if I had made too much of everything that had happened; as if Hallie must be mistaken. It could not have been Johnny Montgomery who had shot a man, or, if he had, it must have been an accident. And, even suppose he had meant to kill him, what possible difference could it make to me?
But when Hallie went on, in a cautious whisper lest we be discovered, to confide to me that when she was grown up and out of school her mother had promised to give her a party, and that, since I was her best friend, of course she was going to invite me first of all, I began to realize that I, too, might some day grow up into a young lady, and be laced into a gown perhaps as beautiful as the one spread out on the bed before us.
Here Abby knocked at the door, and, showing a rather forbidding face around it, said that Hallie was down-stairs; but that if I was going to have any more conniption fits I would better stay where I was. She left a glass of milk and a clean tucker and sleeves on my chair. I swallowed the milk, and hurried into my clothes, but I descended rather slowly to the hall.
Owen commanded so large a sum was crushed beneath his stupendous error in having gone to her for money at all. "Oh, she didn't lend it to me, after all, Hallie; she refused to do so; but she allowed me to buy enough shares for her to make up my quota. Thatcher and I bought at eighty cents on the dollar and she paid the same. She has her shares and it's a good investment, and she knows it.
"Well, William?" asked Mrs. Cary. "It's all right, Miss Hallie," Uncle Billy grinned. "Dey ain't took nothin' not a single thing." "Thank you, William," said Mrs. Cary, having triumphed again. "And thank you, gentlemen." With a bow to Morrison she went superbly back to her seat under the trees. But as she went it took all her strength of will to keep from crying.
Westlake with a smile reached up and pinched his daughter's cheek. "Very well, Hallie, I'll do it," said he. She patted him affectionately on the bald spot. "Good for you," she said. "Be sure you see him this morning, though, and before half-past nine." "You're particular about that, eh?" "Yes, it's rather important," she admitted, and blushed furiously.
Rood's, and the paper says she feels dreadfully about him!" Estrella sniffed. "But," I cried, "you said last night that the shooting had been over her." "Yes, I know!" Hallie leaned forward impressively and seized a hand of each of us. "It's perfectly true at least it's what my father said when the news came.
The only music that he had been accustomed to was the kind that Uncle Billy scraped from his fiddle and plunked on his banjo. It was the gay, rollicking kind, that put his feet to jigging and every muscle in his body quivering in time. This made him want to cry; yet it was so sweet and deep and tender as it went rolling softly down the aisles, that he forgot all about the eggs and Miss Hallie.
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