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'None can't see us here 'fore we see them. 'What was Jim Wickenden gettin' at when I said he'd set his stack too near anigh the brook? Jabez dropped his voice. 'He was in his mind. 'He ain't never been out of it yet to my knowledge, Jesse drawled, and uncorked his tea-bottle. 'But then Jim says: "I ain't goin' to shift my stack a yard," he says.
Jabez Strong had never indulged in dimples or jokes; but then, as Elder Trewin, being a just man, had to admit, the Rev. Jabez Strong had preached many a time and oft to more empty pews than full ones, while now the church was crowded to its utmost capacity on Sundays and people came to hear Mr. Douglas who had not darkened a church door for years.
"I had forgotten Aunt Alviry," and he seemed quite pleased to remember her. "She keeps house for Uncle Jabez, I understand," Ruth continued. "But she isn't my aunt." "She is everybody's Aunt Alviry, I think," said Doctor Davison, encouragingly. For some reason this made Ruth feel better.
And now" she shook with indignation and waved her hand toward a section of horizon where little white dots indicated the whereabouts of the Couriers "now look where they be! Blowed from Dan to Beersheby! Come on to the house and let me set down. I been standin' on my head till I'm tired. Here, Jabez," to the blacksmith, "you tend to that carriage, will you?" She stalked off down the hill.
Now I have made a clean breast of it I am willing to be punished; but I hope Lydia will be set free, for whosoever is guilty, she is innocent. I have been an unlucky man, and I remain one at this moment when I sign myself for the last time, JABEZ CLYNE." Needless to say, both Link and Denzil were greatly surprised at this confession, which revealed all things save the one they wished to know.
She neither envied the wealthy girl her possessions, nor desired to be like her. What Ruth Fielding desired so keenly was independence. She wanted to control her own destiny, instead of being so beholden to Uncle Jabez Potter for everything. The sting of being an object of charity had gotten deeply into Ruth's heart.
Jabez Gum's wife to whom you will shortly have the honour of an introduction, but she is in her bedroom just now had borne him one child, and only one. How this boy was loved, how tenderly reared, let Calne tell you. Mrs. Gum had to endure no inconsiderable amount of ridicule at the time from her gossiping friends, who gave Willy sundry endearing names, applied in derision.
"He's consid'ble worked up, about them coaliers," said old Cap'n Billy. "I don't know as I've heard Jabez swear before not since he was mate of the Gallatin. He used to swear then, consid'able." "Them coaliers is enough to make any one swear," said Cap'n George.
"An' you know 'at I don't like to beg no man to do anything; but you ought to see that I know that you're the usefullest man I ever had, an' you oughtn't to be so fly-uppity," sez he. "Now see here, Jabez," sez I, "you're one o' the kind o' men who never own up 'at a man was fit to live until after he's dead.
"The Brook's been good friends to me, and if she be minded," he says, "to take a snatch at my hay, I ain't settin' out to withstand her." That's what Jim Wickenden says to me last last June-end 'twas, said Jabez. 'Nor he hasn't shifted his stack, neither, Jesse replied. 'An' if there's more rain, the brook she'll shift it for him. 'No need tell me! But I want to know what Jim was gettin' at?
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