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Jim Harkey seemed to renew her endeavors to keep the sisters apart; she still carried spiteful tales to and fro, amplifying them with an irresistible histronic tendency. It had become a matter of self-exoneration with her then. She could not stop now without seeming to admit she had been mischief-making in the past. If the sisters should come together, her lies would instantly appear.
With the sound of the stolen cow-bell ringing in his ears, he could not bring himself to ask Ike Harkey into his house. After Emma grew a little calmer, Mrs. Gray tried again to bridge the chasm. "Now, I just believe if you would go to Sarah " "I can't do that! She'd slam the door in my face. Jim's wife says Sarah said I shouldn't pick a single currant out of the garden this year!"
Nothing could have cut deeper than this neglect, and thereafter adherents of the third remove declined to speak when passing; some even refused to nod. The Harkey faction also condemned the early marriage of Bill and Sarah as unseemly. Soon after, Emma came again to see Mrs. Gray, salty with tears, and crushed with the slight Sarah had put upon her.
"Well, he did; and Emmy put him up to it, and I know she did," said Sarah in a lamentable voice. "Sary Ann," said Mrs. Gray, as sharply as any one ever heard her speak, "that's a pretty way to talk about your sister, ain't it?" "Well, Mrs. Jim Harkey said " "You never mind what Mrs. Jim Harkey said; she's a snoop and everybody knows it." "But she wouldn't tell that, if it weren't so."
"Not from the way he pitches into it up to his ears," remarked Harkey. "He does dot shust to be politeful to Mrs. Nelson," was Dutchy's quick retort. "I know, I know, and it is too pad. Why is he not here? Pecause he haf gone out. Why haf he gone out? For der defelopment of der appetite. How does he defelop der appetite? He walks barefoots in der snow. Ach! don't I know?
"But that is wrong," she objected. "There is the law." He sneered his incredulity of the law's potency in such a region, but he merely iterated, dispassionately, doggedly, "He killed Dutchy and Harkey." Long she argued it with him, but the argument was one-sided, for he contented himself with repeating again and again, "He killed Dutchy and Harkey."
"Well, Emmy won't make no fuss, but if Ike don't git more'n his half, I'll eat the greaser." "Who's ex-ecutor?" "Deacon Williams, I expect." "Well, the Deacon's a slick one," some one observed, as if that were an excellent quality in an executor. "They ain't no love lost between Bill Gray and Harkey, I don't expect." "No, I don't think they is." "Ike don't seem to please people. It's queer, too.
I'll be right back; I'll set some water here, and I guess you won't want anything else until I get back. I'll run right down and right back." After hearing the door close, Emma lay for a few minutes listening, waiting until she felt sure Mrs. Harkey was well out of the yard, then she crept out of bed and crawled to the window. Mrs.
"Well, you can believe it or not, just as you like; I heard her say it." "Well, I didn't, so I can't believe it." When Mrs. Smith came in, Emma was ready to weep, so sweet and cheery was her visitor's face. She found no chance to talk with her, however, for Mrs. Harkey kept near them during her visit. Once, while Mrs. Jim ran out to look at the pies, Mrs.
Early the next morning Bill and his two hands began to work in the meadow, working toward the ridge; Harkey and his brother and their hands began at the ridge and worked down toward the meadow; each party could hear the axes of the other ringing in the still, beautiful spring air.
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