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Updated: June 11, 2025
Suddenly, however, it was the young man's misfortune to see the two Kimper boys on the opposite side of the street, and as he eyed them, his lip curled, and he said, "Isn't it somewhat strange that your estimable parents are so greatly interested in the father of those wretched scamps?" "Nothing that my father and mother do, Mr. Bartram," said Miss Prency, "is at all strange.
Then the brakeman looked a moment into the face before him, it was small, weak-eyed, and characterless, and continued, "Why, Sam Kimper, I didn't know you from Adam! That broad-brimmed low hat makes you look like somebody else. When did you get out?" "This mornin'," said the passenger, dropping his eyes. "Did, eh? Well, you needn't feel so bad about it, old man.
Kimper," said the lady, "but you won't long be troubled that way. The oftener you let people see you, the less curious they'll be." Sam's new way of life, too, began to be discussed where men most congregated. Loungers at stores, the railway station, and the post-office talked of the town's only ex-convict who had not yet gone back to his old ways.
The meeting was closed soon afterwards; and as Sam, in spite of an occasional kind greeting, was endeavoring to escape from the hard stare of curious eyes, Mrs. Judge Prency, who was the handsomest and most distinguished woman in the village, stopped him, grasped his hand, and said, "Mr. Kimper, you gave the most sensible speech I ever heard in an experience meeting.
"Good-day, Mr Kimper," said the lady. "Good-day, ma'am," said the ex-convict. He stood in the dingy shop looking out of the window at the retreating form of the lady, and then at the gathering clouds over the evening sunset, and at the houses on the opposite side of the street, apparently that he might divert his mind from something.
Kimper, I've heard some remarks about your speech at the experience-meeting the other night. You know I was there myself; you remember I spoke to you as you came out?" "Mrs. Prency, I know it; an' that isn't all; I'll remember it just as long as I live.
Kimper, I am very much obliged to you for your views. I assure you that I shall give them careful thought. Good day, sir." "Sam," said Dr.
I mean, just because Sam Kimper don't agree with me. I don't suppose the thing would have come to anything, anyhow, if it hadn't been for that fool of a young lawyer setting his foot in it in the way he did. Everybody likes excitement, and it's a bigger thing for him to have gone into this protracted meeting than it would be for a circus to come to town with four new elephants. It's rough."
"Sam Kimper," said the young lawyer, "if I were not in earnest do you suppose I'd come into this shop during the business hours of the day and ask questions of this kind, when there are plenty of other people I could go to and get the information I want, and perhaps a good deal more?
The storekeeper was so astonished at such a question from a member of the Kimper family that, looking at shoes of the same quality which were lying in a box behind the counter, he actually mistook the cost-mark for the selling-price, and replied, "Only a dollar and a quarter, Mr. Kimper."
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