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Updated: May 12, 2025
Methodically, mechanically, his mind went back over the days when he had gone to school with Jed Conway the same Jed The Red whom the whole town was now welcoming as "our own Jeddy," and the longer he pondered the greater the problem became. It was hard to understand. From his point of view comprehension was impossible, at that instant.
He wanted her opinion on a quite different question a question which he felt utterly incapable of deciding for himself. It was no less a plan than that he should be present at the match which was already hinted at between "The Pilgrim" and Jed The Red Jeddy Conway, from that very village.
And for untold ages India in trouble has been pursued with the very remark which I was going to utter but didn't, because its meaning had slipped me: "Jeddy jow!" Why, it was the very thing. In the early brightness we made a long drive out to the Fort. Part of the way was beautiful.
From the very first that was very apparent, but then, of course, a man in my position in the community could scarcely have been the one to encourage him openly. But he was pretty good, even as a little shaver! Why, there was nothing among the boys that he wouldn't tackle absolutely nothing! Size, sir, never made any difference to him not a particle. Jeddy Conway fight !"
"Now what in time Jed would it be, if 'twa'n't Jeddy Conway our own Jeddy Conway from this very village? What other Jed is there? Ain't you got no memory at all, when you ought to be proud to be able to say that you went to school with him yourself, right in this town?"
And Judge Maynard also crossed his knees, tucked his thumbs into his waistcoat pockets, and winked back with equal joviality. "Well, ye-e-s," he agreed, and the agreement was weightily deliberate. "Ye-e-s, quite a handful was Jeddy." One pudgy hand was uplifted in sudden, deprecatory haste, as though he would not be misunderstood.
Pictures of the main street and the old place where Jeddy went to school, like as not, and and" he hesitated for an instant to recall the exact phrasing "and interviews with the older citizens who recognized his ability and gave him a few pointers in the game when he was only a little tad.
But it's kinda come to me, somehow, that maybe it was that account in the paper that story of Jeddy Conway that's set you to leavin'. It ain't none of my business, and I ain't askin' no questions, but I do want to say that there never was a time when you couldn't lick the everlastin' tar outen him. And you've growed some since then. Jest a trifle jest a trifle!"
"I ain't got no time to fritter away here! I got to git down to the Tavern in a hurry. He'll be waitin' to hear what I kin tell him." The thin, wrinkled old face twisted into a hopeful, wheedling smile. "You know that, don't you, Denny? You could tell him that there wa'n't nobody in the hills knew little Jeddy Conway better'n I did, couldn't you?
"Entre nous just 'twixt thee and me," he went on, "and not for publication, was this Jeddy Conway, as you knew him, all that your eminent citizenry would lead a poor gullible stranger to believe, or was he just a small-sized edition of the full-blown crook he happens to be at the present stage of developments?
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