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She knew, as did every one, that the great chamber of Red Jabez held some vast mystery; she suspected, as did the rest, that it concealed wealth beyond dreams; deep down in her soul she hoped that inviolate chamber held for her the means of emancipation; but of this hope, none knew save herself.
Oxen drawing logs for the shanty. June 23. Began raising today. Jabez, never at a loss in finding the easiest way, had left standing two trees at the site of the house. Placing a stout pole in their crotches, long enough to reach across from one to the other, he attached a pulley. An ox, hitched to the end of the pulley-rope, hauled the logs to the spot and pulled them up as needed.
He was a pleasant-looking man, with dark hair and eyes, his countenance one of keen intellect; and though only of middle height, there was something stately, grand, imposing in his whole appearance. "Is that you, Jabez?" Connected with each other for so many years a connection which had begun when both were young the Rector and Mrs. Ashton had never called him anything but Jabez.
Every now an' again they'd fling back their full weight on the thongs, an' their faces would light with savage joy. That was the kind of joy I felt when I saw Barbie's face. Her mother smiled into Jim's eyes when he came in, an' Jabez stood up an' held out his hand. "Do you want to marry her?" he said. "That's the only wish I have," sez Jim.
"Why, she flared up," sez Jabez, "an' went on sarcastic about it bein' strange to her why girls was so much different from other folks, an' there bein' so many things 'at they wasn't fit to know; an' finally she said to me point blank, 'Do you want me to ask you what I want to know, an' if I do ask you will you answer?" "What did you say?" I sez. "I didn't know what to say," sez Jabez.
He arose abruptly, bowed stiffly, and walked away. If Tom had actually slapped her, Ruth could have felt no more hurt. Ruth Fielding at first felt only hurt; then she felt angry. She was no longer the timid, sensitive girl who had faced Jabez Miller when she first came to the Red Mill with a tremulous smile, to be sure, but tears standing thick in her eyes. No, indeed!
Just before it you were talking with the Hebrew Jabez, the lady Merapi's uncle, were you not?" "Yes, I was talking with him in an open place, alone." "Not so, learned Scribe, for you know we are never alone quite. Could you but see it, every grain of sand has an ear." "Be pleased to explain, O Ki." "Nay, Ana, it would be too long, and short jests are ever the best.
Since then, however, she had many and many a time proved a blessing to him. Nor did Jabez Potter refuse to acknowledge this on occasion. When Ruth began to do over the interior of the old house, however, Uncle Jabez protested. The house and mill had been built a hundred and fifty years before if not longer ago. It was sacrilege to touch a crooked rafter or a hammered nail of the entire structure.
You never saw such a lovely old log cabin " "I never saw a log cabin at all," responded Ruth, laughing. They had climbed the steep bank now and started across the pasture in what Tom called "a catter-cornering" direction, meaning to come out upon the main road to Osago Lake within sight of the Red Mill, which was the property of Mr. Jabez Potter, Ruth's uncle.
If Jabez is well treated, it may make him kinder to his niece, of whom I shall always have a pleasant memory, for which I am grateful among this sour folk who hate us, and with reason." So the sheep and all the foodstuffs for the journey were bought from Jabez at his own price, for which he thanked me much, and on the third day we started.
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