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"Pshaw!" he interrupted; but his friend stopped him with a hand laid on his arm. "Don't be treatin' it as clean out of all possibility, Joe Louden. If ye do, it shows ye haven't sense to know that nobody can say what way the wind's blowin' week after next. All the boys want ye; Louie Farbach wants ye, and Louie has a big say. Who is it that doesn't want ye?" "Canaan," said Joe. "Hold up!
"I only mentioned I'd heard there was some talk among the " He paused awkwardly, remembering that Ariel had walked with Joseph Louden in the face of Canaan that very day. "That is, I mean to say, there's some talk of his running for Mayor." There was a general exclamation, followed by an uncomfortable moment or two of silence.
Louden to pathos upon the subject of her shame before other women when Joe happened to be mentioned, and the supper was finished with the topic. Joe slipped away through the kitchen, sneakingly, and climbed the back fence.
Tuesday, 17th January, Louden Springs. Started shortly after daybreak, on a course of 110 degrees, over as fine a grass country as I have yet travelled over. At sixteen miles crossed the Douglas, running through sand hills covered with grass, but no water, nor any signs of springs. Proceeded in the same direction for eight miles, when we were stopped by a lagoon.
It somehow straightened things out with such perfect good nature; it made those people feel that what they were doing was ridiculous." "So it was," said Joe. "Few, under the circumstances, could have acted as if they thought so! And I hope you'll let me call upon you, Mr. Louden."
"You needn't," he returned, sharply. "It was a pleasure. Do you remember how easy and quick I promised you?" "I remember that you were very kind." "Kind!" He gave forth an acid and chilling laugh. "It was about two months after Louden ran away, and before you and Roger left Canaan, and you asked me to promise to write to you whenever word of that outcast came " "I didn't put it so, Mr. Arp."
Probably demonstrations of that sort would have continued had he remained in Canaan; but for almost a month he had been absent and his office closed, its threshold gray with dust. There were people who believed that he had run away again, this time never to return; among those who held to this opinion being Mrs. Louden and her sister, Joe's step-aunt.
There followed the interrogation customary in such emergencies, and the anxious inquirer was informed by four or five hundred people simultaneously that Joe Louden was all right. "HEAD HIM OFF!" bellowed Mike Sheehan, suddenly darting up the steps.
The people of Canaan cry out for a speedy trial, speedy conviction, and speedy punishment of this cold-blooded and murderous monster. If he is not dealt with quickly according to his deserts, the climax is upon us and the limit of Canaan's patience has been reached. "One last word, and we shall be glad to have its significance noted: J. Louden, Esq., has been retained for the defence!
Martin Pike saw this and more; he saw Ariel Tabor and his own daughter leaning from the carriage, the arms of both pityingly extended to Joe Louden and his two burdens, while the stunned and silly crowd stood round them staring, clouds of dust settling down upon them through the hot air.
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