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Still the customs of the Blue-grass and the hills were widely divergent, and if Gray, only out of loneliness, were much with Mavis, only one interpretation was possible to the Hawns and Honeycutts, just as only one interpretation had been possible for Steve with reference to Marjorie and himself, and Steve's interpretation he contemptuously dismissed.
Old Aaron and young Aaron and many Honeycutts were there; the house was thronged, fiddles played old tunes for nimble feet, and Hawns and Honeycutts ate and drank and made merry until the morning sun fanned its flames above the sombre hills. But before midnight Jason and Mavis fared forth pillion-fashion again.
The Hawns and Honeycutts sent word that they had buried the feud for a while and would fight like brothers for their rights, and from more than one mountain county came the homely threat that if those rights were denied, there would somewhere be "a mighty shovellin' of dirt." And so to the last minute the fight went on.
There was a little group of Hawns about the Hawn store and hotel, and more Honeycutts and Hawns on the other side of the street farther down, but little Aaron did not appear.
One of the Honeycutts turned in his saddle. "Come on," he shouted angrily, "an' let that boy alone." "All right," he shouted back, and then to his white, quivering, helpless quarry: "I'll let ye off this time, but next time " "I'll be ready fer ye," broke in Jason. The lad's mind was made up now. He put the old nag in a lope down the rocky creek.
Silently the Hawns fell in behind on horseback, and on foot, and gravely the Honeycutts watched the procession move through the town and up the winding road.
"Did you ever hear o' my tellin' the Hawns anything about you Honeycutts?" he asked quietly, and old Aaron had to shake his head. "Well, if I tol' you anything about them to-day, don't you know I'd be tellin' them something about you to-morrow?" Old Aaron scratched his head. "By Gawd, boys that's so. Let him pass!"
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