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Updated: May 11, 2025
Loneway to get an extry candle out of the top dresser draw'. An' when that was lit up she whispers to him, and he goes out an' fetches from somewheres a guitar with more'n half the strings left on; an' she set up an' picked away on 'em, an' we all three sung, though I can't carry a tune no more'n what I can carry a white oak tree trunk. "'Oh, she says, 'I'm a-goin' to get well now.
Can you do anything more? he ask' him. "I expected to see young Mr. Loneway go all to pieces at this, because I knew as it was he didn't ride in the street-car, he was pinchin' so to pay the doctor. But he sorter set up sudden an' squared his shoulders, an' he looked up an' says: "'Yes! he says. 'I've been thinkin' that to-night, he says.
"'Peleg, he says, 'I've got to tell somebody, an' God knows maybe it'll be you that'll hev to tell her. I've stole fifty-four dollars out o' the tray in the retail department, says he, 'an' to-day they found me out. They wasn't no fuss made. Lovett, the assistant cashier, is the only one that knows. He took me aside quiet, Mr. Loneway says, 'an' I made a clean breast. I said what I took it for.
"'Sir, I says to him when he come down to go out, 'you won't do nothin' foolish? I ask' him. "'Mind your business, he says, his face like a patch o' poplar ashes. "I was in an' out o' their flat all day, an' I could see't Mis' Loneway she's happy as a lark. But I knew pretty well what was comin'. Mind you, this was the third day.
I whistled, I rec'lect, so's she shouldn't suspect nothin' from our not goin' in where she was right off. An' a messenger-boy was out there in the passage with a letter for Mr. Loneway. "I took it in to him. He turned himself around an' opened it, though I don't believe he knew half what he was doin'. An' what do you guess come tumblin' out o' that envelope? Fifty-four dollars in bills.
When we got to the top I see inside the room, an' she was layin' back on her pillow, all still an' quiet. An' the little new pink jacket never moved nor stirred, for there wa'n't no breath. "Mr. Loneway, he come acrost the floor towards us. "'Come in, he says. 'Come right in, he told us an' I see him smilin' some." When Peleg had gone back to the woodshed, Calliope slipped away too.
Well, don't you stay here, bringin' diseases. A hospital's the true place fer the sick, she says. "I went back to Mis' Loneway, an' I guess I lied some. I said the kid was sick had the croup, I thought, an' she'd hev to wait. Her face fell, but she said 'all right an' please not to say nothin', an' then I went out an' done my best to borrow a kid for her.
Once he even hed her a bunch o' pinks. Seems though he was doin' the worst he could. "The pinks come at the end of the second day of the three days the assistant cashier had give him to pay the money back in. An' two things happened that night. I was in the kitchen helpin' him wash up the dishes while the doctor was in the room with Mis' Loneway.
Mis' Loneway was leanin' back, laughin', an' tellin' him what they was goin' to do the minute she got well; but when she see the baby she drops her husband's hand and sorter screams out, weak, an' holds out her arms. Mr. Loneway, he hardly heard me go in, I reckon leastwise, he looks at me clean through me without seein' I was there.
I carried the orange out and give it to a kid in the ar'y, so's Mis' Loneway'd be makin' somebody some pleasure, anyhow. An' then I went back upstairs an' told her the kid was worse. Seems the croup had turned into cholery infantum. "'Why, she says, 'I mus' send it down somethin' nice an' hot to-night, an' so she did, and I slips it back in the Loneway kitchen unbeknownst.
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