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But the gray-blue eyes were whimsical, and the mobile lips smiling. He was unrebuffed as he made a counter-query. "Kain't a feller kinderly come broguein' in hyar, without some special business brings him?" Alexander felt that she had been unneighborly, but in her memory the things that Brent had said to her had become a sort of troublesome refrain. "Men will come and they won't be turned back."
Him an' me, we hain't got no manner of use for one another, but he's kinderly kin ter you an' he bears the repute of bein' ther workin'est man in this county." "Sim Squires!" exclaimed old Aaron. "I didn't nuver think of him, but I reckon Sim couldn't handily spare ther time from his own farm. Ef he could, though, hit would be mighty pleasin'." "I reckon mebby he couldn't," agreed Bas.
I hain't heered nothin' of hit, an' I reckon ef ther Harpers war holdin' any council they wouldn't skeercely pass me by." "I don't reckon they would, Aaron." Sim now spoke with a flattery intended to placate ruffled pride. "Ther boys thet's gittin' restive air kinderly lookin' ter you ter call thet council.
"I reckon my legs is a few y'ars younger than yourn," he announced cheerfully. "I'll jest teck my foot in my hand and light out fer over thar. Hit hain't but a whoop an' a holler distant nohow." "Hit's a right purty night," volunteered Alexander, in a voice of vague restlessness. "I don't kinderly feel like settin' still. I'll go along with ye, Jerry." The young man's eyes brightened delightedly.
"An' es fer comin' back," Jerry continued blandly, "some day you're ergoin' ter invite me back. Anyhow, I reckon I'd come, because thar's somethin' hyar thet'll kinderly pulls me hither stronger then guns kin skeer me off." The girl sat there on her doorstep with her rifle across her knees and halfway to the fence-line Jerry paused and looked back.
"Ye don't seem no master degree talkative terday, Bas," suggested the man with the pistol, which was no longer held levelled but swinging though ready to leap upward. Then almost musingly he added, "An' thet's a kinderly pity, too, seein' ye hain't nuver goin' ter hev no other chanst." "Why don't ye shoot an' git done?" barked Rowlett with a leer of desperation.
Hit hain't thet I was raised up a boy I thought I'd always stay thet-a-way. Then I found I couldn't." "Yes, I knows thet, Alexander. Thar hain't no censure fer ye es ter thet." "Mebby thar ought ter be though. But ye sees hit's kinderly like I was livin' in a new world an' I don't know hit well yit. I've got ter go slow. I hain't made up my mind an' then changed hit I hain't blowed hot an' cold.
With a passionate impulse of holding him for herself, her arms closed more rigidly about him and her soft body clung against his own, but no sound of sobbing came from her lips and after a little she threw back her head and spoke rapidly, tensely, with the molten fierceness of one mountain-bred: "I hain't seekin' ter dissuade ye ... I reckon I kinderly egged ye on out thar under ther tree ... but ef any harm comes ter ye, Cal ... over yon ... then afore God, even ef I'm only a woman ... I'll kill ther man thet causes hit!"
He had caught that note and it piqued his curiosity, so with mountain secretiveness he became cryptic in his response. "Wa'al, mebby we hain't tellin' all we knows jest yit. Mebby we're kinderly bidin' our time for a leetle spell." It was not a comprehensive announcement.
"This book sheds light on a heap of things thet we all needs ter know erbout hit tells how his foreparent sought ter kill ther tree thet our ancestors planted an' hit's kinderly like an indictment in ther high co'te." While Dorothy Thornton accused the blood sprung from the renegade and his Indian squaw out of those ancient pages the men listened. To the husband it was incitement and revelation.
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