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Bill's big boot lunged out, catching Harkey in the ribs, and if the Deacon had not sprung to his assistance Jim would have been trampled to pieces by the scared horse under whose feet he found himself. He was wild with dizzy, breathless rage. "Who hit me?" he demanded. Bill's shapeless hulk straightened up and stood beside him as if his pink flesh had suddenly turned to oak.
What ud be aisier, thinks I to myself, than to kill all iv yez, report it at Skaguay for an Indian-killin', an' thin pull out for Ireland? An' so I started in to kill all iv yez, but, as Harkey was fond of sayin', I cut out too large a chunk an' fell down on the swallowin' iv it. An' that's me confession. I did me duty to the devil, an' now, God willin', I'll do me duty to God."
Harkey returned she found Sarah sitting by Emma's side in the bed-chamber. Sarah looked at her with all the grimness her jolly fat face could express. "You ain't needed here," she said coldly. "If you want to do anything, find a man and send him for the Doctor quick. If she dies you'll be her murderer." Mrs.
"That shows where he lives; a man might as well live in a well as up in Molasses Gap," said one of the younger men, pointing up to the Coolly. "Why, Ike Harkey is kicking about the six shotes the Deacon put off on him." "No, it wasn't the shotes, it was a farrer cow," put in Clint Stone. "Well, I heard it was a shote." "So did I," said another.
Not a word to say better'n I expected," he added. Bill was not quite keen enough to perceive the insult which lay in that final clause, and Sarah dared not inform him for fear of trouble. As Harkey drove away, however, Bill had a dim feeling of dissatisfaction with him.
Hans Nelson was stolid and easy-going, while Edith had long before won his unbounded admiration by her capacity for getting on with people. Harkey, a long, lank Texan, was unusually friendly for one with a saturnine disposition, and, as long as his theory that gold grew was not challenged, was quite companionable.
She sympathized for the time with the Harkey faction. Sunday forenoon, when Bill and Sarah drove up to the farm to put things in order in the house, they found Ike Harkey walking around with that queer side glance he had, studying the piles of furniture, and mentally weighing the pigs. He greeted them smoothly: "Yes, yes, I'm purrfickly satisfied, purrfickly!
Fourteen doctrinal articles were prepared by H. L. Baugher, B. Kurtz, and S. W. Harkey, containing, among other statements, also the following: "We believe that the Scriptures teach that God has given to man, as a natural gift, the power of choice, and that, whilst he is influenced in his volitions by motives, he always possesses the ability to choose the opposite of that which was the object of his choice.
"Well, how goes it?" asked a quick, jovial voice. The girls gave screams of affected fright. "Why, Deacon! You nearly scared the life out of us." Deacon Williams was always gallant. "I didn't know I was given to scaring the ladies," he said. "Well, who's here?" "Nobody but us so far." "Hain't seen nothing o' Harkey?" "Not a thing. He sent word he'd be on hand, though."
Spilling out of his right hand were the two cartridges which he had failed to put into the gun and which he had clutched until consciousness left him. Harkey lay on the floor, face downward, where he had fallen; while Dutchy rested forward on the table, his yellow mop of hair buried in his mush- plate, the plate itself still tilted at an angle of forty-five degrees.
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