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He can't ride by here an' see a red-headed bastard playin' round the yard an' laugh to himself when he says, 'That's mine. You've laid Your hand on 'em." Tira rose from her chair and went to him. She slipped to the floor, put her head on his unwelcoming shoulder and her arms about his neck. "Isr'el," said she, "you hear to me.
"We ain't alone, Isr'el, be we?" she challenged breathlessly. "I dunno what you're talkin' about," said Tenney uneasily, and she laughed. It was, Raven wonderingly thought, a light-hearted laugh, as if she had no longer anything to bear. "Why," said she, "same as I told you. We ain't alone a minute o' the time, if we don't feel to be. He's with us, the Lord Jesus Christ."
Well then, said Isr'el, if it must be so, My sons, take my advice before you go; Provide some of the best fruits of the land, To give the man a present from your hand; Balm, myrrh, and spices, and a little honey, Some nuts and almonds, and take double money, For peradventure it was a mistake, In that our money was returned back.
Yes, he was different, not paler, nor, as she had seen him, aflame in a livid way, but different. "Isr'el," she said, "I never knew 'Gene Martin was goin' to stop here. I knew no more'n the dead." "Was that him?" asked Tenney indifferently. "I see somebody stopped. I thought mebbe 'twas the butcher. Then I remembered he comes of a Wednesday." That settled it in her mind.
He had found them too poignant in their picturesque drama to be paraphrased or forgotten. "Yes," she said eagerly. She was relieved to be helped. "He drove up in his sleigh, about fifteen minutes 'fore Isr'el come home. He come up to the house. I went to the door. 'What do you want? I says. Then he begun to say things, foolish things same's he always did "
First time you ever mentioned it, I told you, so's to have things fair an' square. I told you, Isr'el." He said nothing, but she knew the answer at the back of his mind, and it seemed to her wise now to provoke it, to dare the accusation and meet it, not as she always had, by silence, but a passionate testimony.
"Isr'el," she broke out, "before God!" "Well," said he, in the snarl she had heard from him at those times when his devil quite got the better of him, "what? What you got to tell?" "It ain't so," she said, her voice broken by her chattering lips. "Before God, it ain't so."
An' this to-do ain't so much about me as about you, Isr'el Tenney, because you're makin' a fool o' yourself. You'll be town talk, an' you deserve to be. You've brought it on yourself." Raven, his eyes on the man's face, saw it change slightly: something tremulous had come into it, though it might have been only surprise. The hand on the axe helve shook perceptibly.
I don't care whether you're deef or dumb, or whether you're nummer'n a beetle! It's my bandbox I'm arter. Isr'el in Egypt! you might grind some folks in a mortar an' you couldn't make 'em speak!" It was of no use. Intimidation had been worse than hopeless; even bodily force would not avail.
"Because," said Tira, bound to keep quietly on in this new way of reason with him, "I left him. An' I left him 'fore he got tired o' me. He never'd overlook that." "You left him, did ye?" he repeated. "Then that proves you was with him, or ye couldn't ha' left him." "Why, Isr'el," said she, her clear gaze on his turbid answering one, "I told you. I told you long 'fore you married me.
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