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Updated: June 19, 2025
I wished that I was back there until I read, down at the bottom of the last page, that Beryl King and her Aunt Lodema had gone back to the East. The next day I learned the same thing from another source. Edith Loroman had kept her promise as I remembered her, she wasn't great at that sort of thing, either and sent me a picture of White Divide just before I left the ranch.
Wall, jest as I got through with the authoresses letter, and Lodema Trumble's, Josiah Allen came. And I hurried up the supper. And we sot down to the table happy as a king and his queen. I don't s'pose queens make a practice of steepin' tea, but mebby they would be better off if they did and have better appetites and better tea. Any way we felt well, and the supper tasted good.
And when I asked him about it afterwards, what that strange and curius look meant, he never hung back a mite from tellin' me, but sez right out plain: "Mebby, Samantha, I hain't done exactly as I ort to by cousin Lodema, and I have made up my mind to make her a happy surprise before she goes away." "Wall," sez I, "so do." I thought he wuz goin' to get her a new dress.
And Cousin Lodema had jest observed, "that the new-fashioned frames with legs wuzn't good for nothin', and she didn't like the color of gray, it looked too melancholy, and would be apt to depress our feelin's too much, and would be tryin' to our complexions."
Lodema had been uncommon exasperatin', and I expected she would set Josiah to goin', and I groaned in spirit, to think what a job wuz ahead of me, to part their two tongues when all of a sudden I see a curius change come over my pardner's face.
"No," sez Josiah, who had come in and wuz a standin' by the side of me, as I spoke out to myself unbeknown to me sez he in a proud axent "No, they hain't mourners, they are Happyfiers; they are Highlariers; they have come to our party. We are givin' a party, Samantha. We are havin' a diamond weddin' here for Lodema." "A diamond weddin'!" I repeated mechanically.
Wall, the very next mornin' Lodema marched down like a grenideer, and ordered Josiah to take her to the train. And she eat breakfast with her things on, and went away immegiately after, and hain't been back here sense. And I wuz truly glad to see her go, but wuz sorry she went in such a way, and I tell Josiah he wuz to blame, But he acts as innocent as you pleese.
"Yes," sez I, sadly, "you have got the spunk." "Wall," sez he, "I guess I can spunk up, and do somethin' for one of my own relations, without any interference or any advice from any of the Smith family, or anybody else." Sez I, "I don't want to stop your doin' all you can for Lodema, but why not tell what you are a-goin' to do?" "It will be time enough when the time comes," sez he.
And oh! my heart! wuz not my sufferin's with Lodema Trumble, a hard plow and a harrowin' one, and one that turned up deep furrows? But of this, more anon and bimeby. Wall, it wuz on the very next day on a Thursday as I remember well, for I wuz a-thinkin' why didn't Lodema's letter come the next day Fridays bein' considered onlucky and it being a day for punishments, hangin's, and so forth.
"I'm not on your cousin's visiting-list; I've never even been introduced to her." "That," said Miss Edith complacently, "is easily remedied. You know mama well enough, I should think. Aunt Lodema funny name, isn't it? is stopping here all summer, with Beryl. Beryl has the strangest tastes.
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