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Updated: June 5, 2025
After leaving Lafe's message at the Bates' cottage, Jinnie stepped from the tracks to the marshes with a joyful heart. Of course nothing could harm her! Lafe's faith, mingled with her own, would save her from every evil in the world. When Bates opened the shop door, the cobbler looked up gravely. He nodded his head to Jasper's, "Howdy do, Grandoken?" "Sit down," said Lafe.
She wanted to believe, to feel again that ecstatic faith which had suffused her as Maudlin Bates pulled her curls in the marsh, when she had called unto the Infinite and Theodore had answered. Peg needed Lafe's angels at that moment. They all needed the comfort of the cobbler's faith. "Peg," she began, "your man'd tell you something sweet if he could see you now."
The viselike fingers pressed deeper into her tender flesh. "Here, huzzy, you needn't be tryin' none of your muck on me," said Burns. "Keep still or I'll break your arm." Jinnie sickened with pain, and her eyes sought Lafe's. If he'd been in his coffin, he couldn't have been whiter. "Jinnie," he chided brokenly, "you've forgot what I told you, ain't you, lass?"
"I guess I kin account for near half of the boys, Lafe, and I guess you kin line up clost to half with the railroads, can't you? Well, you don't stand to lose nothin', do you? All we got to do is keep them decidin' votes where we want 'em." Then he leaned over and whispered in Lafe's ear briefly. Lafe's thin lips curved upward a trifle at the ends. "Scattergood," said he, "this here's an idee.
As she stood in the gathering gloom and peered into the water below, Jinnie could hear the child lisping his small petitions. At that moment a new faith came for herself. Lafe's angels would save her, too, from Jordan Morse's revenge. At ten-thirty the next morning Morse came. With trepidation Jinnie heard him open the door. He was extremely nervous and stayed only a few moments.
From a flask of good French brandy he managed to pour a spoonful or so down each throat, taking a swallow himself, for he felt he sorely needed it. Poor old Blaine never stirred. Erwin at last shivered slightly. "Isn't this a deuce of a fix?" he sighed at length. "Where are we? For all I know, Blaines may be dead. Here, feeling again of Lafe's pulse, its steady beat somewhat reassured Stanley.
"Got any ammunition? What? The devil!" Orris had replied to Lafe's queries by shaking out the now empty cartridge sheaves and dropping them again. Lafe, then swooping closer, Called forth to his mate: "By its looks this gun is a rebuilt Lewis. Can you use any of mine? You know the Boches are great in reconstructing captured weapons to their own use. Get below me and to one side. Hurry up!
The woman smiled sweetly and drove to the edge of the pavement. "Good afternoon," she greeted Jinnie. "Won't you take a little ride with me? I'll drive you home afterwards." Jinnie's heart bounded. As yet Molly had not discovered her identity, and the girl, in spite of Lafe's caution, wanted to know all that had passed in Mottville after she left.
He staggered, frantically clutching the slender body of Bobbie closer and toppled over. Lafe's homecoming was one of solemn rejoicing. The only shadow hanging over the happy family was the absence of Blind Bobbie, who now lay by the side of his dead father. After the first greetings, Lafe took his boy baby and pressed him gratefully to his heart.
She squinted sidewise as if a strong light suddenly hurt her sight. "Who said I didn't?" she drawled. "Some husbands do make me mad, when they're tellin' me what I want, an' what I don't want. I hate the blind brat like I do the girl, but he's goin' to stay just the same." A deep flush dyed Lafe's gray face. The intensity of his emotion was almost a pain.
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