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Updated: September 16, 2025
They can't get married because 'Niram can't keep even, let alone get ahead any, because I cost so much bein' sick, and the doctor says I may live for years this way, same's Aunt Hettie did. An' 'Niram is thirty-one, an' Ev'leen Ann is twenty-eight, an' they've had 'bout's much waitin' as is good for folks that set such store by each other. I've thought of every way out of it and there ain't any.
"What is it, Cap'n Mayo?" screamed Mrs. Peters. "Hey?" "Hey?" repeated Captain Zeb, peering round the chaise curtain. "Who's that?" "It's me. Is somebody dead?" "Who's me? Oh! No, Hettie, nobody's dead, though I'm likely to bust a blood vessel if I keep on yellin' much longer. Is the parson to home?" "Hey?" "Oh, heavens alive! I say is Ha, there you be, Mr. Ellery. Mornin', Keziah."
Hank had helped hunt for his body; but it never could be identified among the hundreds that was picked up, and so his remains never was brought home. That one fact nearly killed Hettie. I'm talking plain, Dixie, but me and you are good, true friends, and I want you, anyway, to understand my fix.
If I couldn't, I'd tie myself to the anchor and jump overboard. "The way she answered showed pretty plain that she didn't believe him. 'Really? she says. 'Do you think so? Good night, Jonadab. "I could hear her walkin' off acrost the piazza. He went after her. 'Hettie, he says, 'you answer me one thing. Are you engaged to Tobe Loveland? "She laughed again, sort of teasin' and slow.
Did you ever know it was me that helped get him away from the revenue men the night he had a barrel o' whiskey on his wagon?" Hettie laughed impulsively, and her graceful little body shook all over. "Mother thought you had a hand in it," answered Harriet, with an appreciative smile. "It was fun," giggled Hettie.
"'Ugh! he grunts, 'bout as cordial as a plate of ice cream. ''Lo, Wixon, that you? "'Um-hm, begins Jonadab. 'How's that crowbait of yours to-day, Tobe? Got any go in him? 'Cause if he has, I "He stopped short. The woman in Loveland's carriage had turned her head and was starin' hard. "'Why! she gasps. 'I do believe Why, Jonadab! "'HETTIE! says the Cap'n.
"Don't seem to know exactly whar she does want to go," remarked Jim Hunter, breaking the silence which had followed her departure from the store. "Who is she, anyway?" "Oz Fergerson's daughter Hettie," replied Worthy, leaning against the door-jamb. "She don't look overly well; I reckon that's why she quit workin' at the hotel.
Alice Deringham set her lips and turned her head away from her companion as one of the voices continued. "Hettie has not heard it yet, and Tom did not seem sure about it when he told me. In fact, Forel brought the man over to see us the night before, but it is quite evident now the girl had been living there. Yes, Tom heard he had rooms behind his office."
She did not answer, but hearing her mother's step in the hall she called out, while she tightened her little fingers over his, "Mother, come in here; come quick!" "What is it, darling?" asked the old woman, anxiously, as she entered the room. "Oh, mother, he thought I was Hettie; he thought I loved Toot Wambush; he says he doesn't care about the other thing one bit."
"I took Miss Dixie over on on business. It was transacted, and " "You didn't tell Hettie whar you was bound for?" "I didn't, because I didn't think it made any difference. She's never interested in what I do or where I go, and there was no reason for telling her."
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