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"He's liable to fly off the handle like that a score of times a day. Don't you worry 'bout him. He'll be back before the mornin's over." Nevertheless, sanguine as this prediction was, the hours wore on, and Janoah Eldridge failed to make his appearance. In the meantime Bob and Willie became so deeply engrossed in their new undertaking that they were oblivious to his absence.
The Brewsters an' Delight will be pleased, too. An' there's Janoah! Oh, Janoah must be told right away, Bob, quick's ever we can fetch it. 'Twill clear the air 'twixt him an' me, an' make us both happier. I ain't never been able to convince him that if you put your trust in folks they seldom betray it. Who knows but when he finds out what's happened he'll kitch that idee?
"Whatever are you tryin' to say?" demanded he at last. Janoah swept his hand dramatically round the shop. "You've been betrayed, Willie!" he announced with tragic intensity. "Betrayed by them as you thought was your friends, an' who you've trusted. I warned you, but you wouldn't listen, an' now the thing I told you would happen has happened." Triumphant pleasure gleamed in the sinister smile.
"For goodness sake, Janoah, whatever set you makin' a speech like that?" Willie demanded, when the two were alone. "Have you gone plumb crazy? The very notion of your lightin' into that innocent young feller! What are you thinkin' of?" "Mebbe he ain't so innocent as he seems," the accuser sneered. The little old man faced him sharply. "Come," he persisted, "let's have this thing out.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
Why, Zenas Henry is like her own father. Since she was a wee tot she ain't known no other. While this old lady, her grandmother what is she? Why, she don't mean nothin' not a thing!" They walked on toward the shop door, each occupied with his own reveries; then suddenly Willie roused himself. "Why, if here ain't Janoah!" he exclaimed. "What you doin', Jan?
"How dare you insult Willie's friend and and mine! You've no right to speak so about Mr. Morton." Before her indignation Janoah quailed. In all his life he had never before seen Delight Hathaway angry, and something in her flashing eyes and flaming cheeks startled him. "I I warn't meanin' to say 'twas actually so," mumbled he apologetically.
Janoah Eldridge came no more to the Spence cottage; Snelling had vanished; the Galbraiths were occupied with their own affairs; and the barrier between Bob and Willie began slowly to wear away.
"Maybe there was something you wanted to see Mr. Spence about," ventured Bob. "If there was I will " "No, there warn't," snapped Janoah. "Mister Spence ain't got nothin' confidential to say to me whatever he may have to say to other folks," and with this parting thrust he shot out of the door. Bob gave a low whistle. "What's the matter with the man?" he asked in amazement.
He says, of course, that he's Tiny's nephew, an' he may be, fur all I can tell; but what proof have you he ain't somebody else who's come here to steal your ideas an' get money for 'em?" There was a moment of stunned silence, as the barbs from his tongue pierced the stillness. Then Delight stepped in front of the interloper. "How dare you, Janoah Eldridge!" she cried.
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