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Updated: May 22, 2025
Hedrick was of the New School: everything direct, real, no striving for effect, no pressure on the stroke. He did his work: you could take it or leave it. "You mustn't strain so, dear," returned his sister, shaking her head. "It won't last if you do. You see this is only the first day."
Never a smile from him, though, till he and Hedrick are safe out into the night again then, of course, they hug each other and howl over it like Modocs! But pardon; I'm interrupting the lecture. Listen."
Then laughingly: "Hedrick HAS written some rhymes for the county papers, and Sweeney once introduced him, at an Old Settlers' Meeting, as 'The Best Poet in Center Township, and never cracked a smile! Always after each other that way, but the best friends in the world. SWEENEY'S strong suit is elocution.
"Usually they have her live in an institution for people afflicted as she is, but they brought her home for a visit last week, I believe. Of course you didn't understand, but I think you should have been more thoughtful. Really, you shouldn't have flirted with her." Hedrick stopped short.
"The fresh air will be the best thing for me." She did not notice that he carelessly retained her contributions to the game, and he reached his studio with them in his hand. Hedrick had entered the 'teens and he was a reader: things in his head might have dismayed a Borgia. No remotest glimpse entered that head of the enormity of what he did.
They were two months finding out beyond a question of doubt that Abner Handy had accepted Mrs. Worthington's money to act against them, but when they knew this there was no hope for Handy among them. They are a quiet people, and make no noise. For a month, only Charley Hedrick and the grocers and the hardware men, with whom the farmers trade, knew the truth about Handy's standing in the county.
So when Abner Handy announced that he desired to go to the State Senate, to fill an unexpired term for two years, he had Hedrick behind him to give strength and respectability to his candidacy. Between the two Handy won.
"He's dead wrong there," said my friend; "Hedrick enjoys being laughed at; he's used to it gets fat on it!" "Is fond of his friends," continued the Professor, "and the heartier they are the better; might even be convivially inclined if so tempted but prudent in a degree," loiteringly concluded the speaker, as though unable to find the exact bump with which to bolster up the last named attribute.
People are so often mistaken in what they hear, even when they're talking right to each other, and " "Isn't it more likely," said Laura, gravely, "that Cora was telling some story or incident, and that Hedrick overheard that part of it, and thought she was speaking directly to Mr. Corliss?" Corliss. Laura had been quick. Hedrick passed a variegated morning among comrades.
Laura had not even remotely foreseen the consequences of her revelation, nor, indeed, did she now properly estimate their effect upon Hedrick. She and her mother were both sorry for him, and did what they could to alleviate his misfortunes, but there was an inevitable remnant of amusement in their sympathy.
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