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She did not add, as extreme candour would have urged, "And I have some hope remote, alas! but there of becoming sister to Miss Demilt myself." "Thank you!" said Lettis. "Shall I be able to see him this afternoon?" "Oh, mercy, yes!" said Miss Mary Ann. "Tom is home all day." "I can thank the kind fates for that," said Lettis.
"Boy's gone home to see his dad about working for me this afternoon; in the meantime, it you're not too proud to take hold and help us with this dod-ratted fence, I'll be obliged to you." "Bring on your fence! I'm ready," said Lettis. "Come on, boys!" said Red, and the party rose from the table. Later the waggon came up. "Well, good day, Lettis," said Red.
Demilt had written to his firm explaining the advantages of starting a straw-board factory in Fairfield. It was too small a thing for the firm to be interested in, but Lettis had a small capital which he wished to invest in an enterprise of his own handling, and it had struck him that there might be a chance for independence; therefore he had come to find out the lay of the land.
He was every inch of that from the ground up. Lettis had come to bow down to him in adoration, with all an affectionate boy's worship. To those eyes Red was just right, in every particular. Likewise to Miss Mattie, who even now was filling her eyes with him, from behind the vantage of a broad-brimmed straw hat.
Lettis was thinking of other qualities than flesh, but the physical Red Saunders on horseback was deserving of a glance from anybody; the massive figure so well poised; the clear cut, proud profile; the shapely head with its crown of red-gold hair; the easy grace of him by virtue of his strength it would be a remarkable crowd in which Chanta Seechee Red couldn't pass for a man.
The crowd cheered as the imprisoned waters leapt to freedom with a hollow roar, raising in pitch as the penstock filled and the wheels began to go round. Speech was called for, and the vigorously protesting Red forced to the front by his former friends, Demilt and Lettis. Thus betrayed by those he trusted, Red made the best of it. "Ladies and gentlemen, fellow citizens!" said he.
Excuse the question, but I'm so anxious over this " "Lord! What's the harm of asking facts?" said Red. Then with a gleam of genial pride, "Ten thousand wouldn't break me by a durn sight". Lettis' boyish face fairly glowed. "It was my good angel made me stop in front of your fence," he said.
Doesn't this look good, and doesn't it smell good, dust and all?" and then he'd howl at the horses in sheer exuberance of good feeling, making the mild old brutes put a better foot of it to the front. Red cantered up beside his waggon. "Well, Lettis," he said, "here we go for the opening overture, with the full strength of the company we're great people this day, ain't we?"
And he was very silent. During the drive back to the house he spoke in monosyllables; he went straight to the barn with Lettis afterward, and made no attempt to take the usual frank and hearty good-night kiss. "You're as glum as an oyster!" said Lettis, when they reached their quarters. "What's the matter, old man?" "I don't know, Let; I feel kind of quiet, somehow." "Sick? Or something go wrong?"
He even chuckled, when he got Lettis out of the way with a plausible excuse the next morning. Then he strode briskly into the house, his question on his lips in a plump out-and-out form. Miss Mattie looked at him with her slow smile. "What is it?" she asked. Red swallowed his question whole. "I I wanted a little hot water to shave with," said he. Then a fury took hold of him.
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