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All the color was out of his face, his lip quivering. "Whoever said I said a word against you, Mrs. Grogan, is a liar." It was the last resort of a cowardly nature. "Stop lyin' to me, Pete Lathers! If there's anythin' in this world I hate, it's a liar. Ye said it, and ye know ye said it. Ye want that drunken loafer Dan McGaw to get me work.
I remembered this story, but I wuzn't goin' to encourage Josiah Allen by lettin' my attention be drawed off by any anectotes nor I didn't smile oh, no I But I went right on with a hull lot of burnin' indignatin in my axents, and sez I, "Josiah Allen, can you look me in the face and say that it wuzn't money and bad men's influence that keep such men as Deacon Widrig and Simeon Lathers in the meetin' house?"
"Let him come; he's the one I want to see. If he knew he had a man in his pay that would do as dirty a trick to a woman as ye've done to me, his name would be Dinnis. I'll see him meself this very day, and" Here Lathers interrupted with an angry gesture. "Don't ye lift yer arm at me," she blazes out, "or I'll break it at the wrist!" Lathers's hand dropped.
The meanness of the whole affair offended him two big, strong men vilifying a woman with no protector but her two hands. McGaw should never lift a shovel for him. Again the song floated out; this time it seemed nearer, ". . . wid McGeechy McGeechy of the Fourth." "Dan McGaw's giv'n it to you straight," said Lathers, stopping for a last word, his face thrust through the window again.
She directed every boat-load herself, and rushed the materials to the shovelers, who stood soaking wet in the driving rain. Lathers avoided her; so did McGaw. Everybody else watched her in admiration.
He said he was a-drivin' by when they picked her up, and he was dead sure that somebody had hid in the stable and knocked her on the head with a club." McGaw steadied himself with his hand and grasped the seat of his chair. The sweat was rolling from his face. He seemed afraid to look up, lest some other eye might catch his own and read his thoughts. If he had only seen Lathers come in!
Her mind was made up. She would fight it out to the bitter end. That invincible spirit which dwelt in Tom's breast that spirit which had dared Lathers, outwitted Duffy, cowed Crimmins, and braved the Union, did not, strange to say, dominate all the members of her own household. One defied her.
He carried a letter from Pete Lathers, the yardmaster, to Crane & Co., of so potent a character that the coal-dealers agreed to lend McGaw five hundred dollars on his three-months' note, taking a chattel mortgage on his teams and carts as security, the money to be paid McGaw as soon as the papers were drawn.
"The yard-watch!" said Tom, with a look of supreme contempt. "I can handle any two of 'em, an' ye too, an' ye know it." Her cheeks were aflame. She crowded Lathers so closely his slinking figure hugged the fence. By this time the gang had abandoned the buoy, and were standing aghast, watching the fury of the Amazon. "Now, see here, don't make a muss; the commandant'll be down here in a minute."
She's a dacint woman, anough; but thim b'ys as is a-runnin' her carts is raisin' h ll all the toime." "And then look at the teams," chimed in Lathers, with a jerk of his thumb toward the dock "a lot of staggering horse-car wrecks you couldn't sell to a glue-factory. That big gray she had a-hoistin' is blind of an eye and sprung so forrard he can't hardly stand."
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