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Updated: June 27, 2025
Hoddy in the bar, gravely alert and serviceable, and equally anxious to lend or borrow books; dozed all day in the dusty sunshine, more than half asleep. There were no neighbours, except the Hansons up the hill.
"You will be wanting your broth, Hoddy," she said. "I'll fetch it." She made the companion without touching stay or rail, which necessitated a fine sense of balance, for there was a growing vigour to the wind and a corresponding lift to the roll of the sea.
I did not know what God had in mind then. Mr. O'Higgins and I landed at Copeley's yesterday; and Mr. McClintock sent his yacht over for us this morning. Hoddy, what made you do it? Whatever made you do it?" "God knows! Something said to me: Take it! Take it! And ... I took it. After I took the bills it was too late to turn back. I drew out what I had saved and boarded the first ship out. Wait!"
And if sometimes I grow heady and it's in the blood remind me of this day when you took me out of hell a thief." "Hoddy!" said Ruth. "You mustn't!" "Nothing can change that, Dawn Pearl. Auntie has taken the nails out of my palms, but the scars will always be there." There fell upon the three the silence of perfect understanding; and in this silence each saw a vision.
What she did not know, and what she was never to know, was that the divine fire was hers. "Ruth?" he called. She entered and approached the bunk. "I thought you were asleep. Is there anything you want?" She laid her hand on his forehead, and found it without fever. She had worried in fear that the excitement would be too much for him. "Call me Hoddy. That is what my mother used to call me."
He felt so cas' down dat he didn' notice a nigger man comin' long de road 'til he got right close up on 'im, an' didn' heah dis man w'en he said 'Hoddy' ter 'im. "'Wat's de matter wid yer? said de yuther man w'en Ben didn' 'spon'. 'Wat jedge er member er de legislater er hotel-keeper does you b'long ter dat you can't speak ter a man w'en he says hoddy ter yer?
"Now, dis cunjuh man, w'en he had got th'oo talkin' wid Dan, kep' on down de road 'long de side er de plantation, 'tel he met Mahaly comin' home fum wuk des atter sundown. "'Hoddy do, ma'm, sezee; 'is yo' name Sis' Mahaly, w'at b'longs ter Mars Dugal' McAdoo? "'Yas, 'spon' Mahaly, 'dat's my name, en I b'longs ter Mars Dugal'.
Her father man of rock had never needed her, whereas Hoddy, even if he did not love her, would always be needing her. Love stories!... A sob rushed into her throat, and to smother it she buried her face in a pillow. Spurlock, filled with self-mockery, sat in a chair on the west veranda. The chair had extension arms over which a man might comfortably dangle his legs.
And this miserable little eighty dollars a month has had to carry him and his debts. And not a whimper that old man utters. Always kindly, Hoddy was, always telling stories from the forty years at Huntington and we fellows here, a lot of us rotten with money, and not knowing that the old fellow " Middleton's voice broke. It was some time before he proceeded.
He decided that Hoddy should pay a colossal price for the Dawn Pearl shame, loneliness, torment, for only through these agencies would he learn your worth. The fibre of his soul had to be tested, queerly, to make him worthy of you. Through fire and water, through penury and pestilence, your hand will always be on his shoulder.
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