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"But I can git out, I reckon," he said, and he never looked at the widow who had stopped, frightened, at the gate. "Oh, I can't I can't!" she said, and her voice broke; but the girl gently pushed her to the door, where she stopped again, leaning against the lintel. Across the way, the wounded Marcum, with a scowl of wonder, crawled out of his bed and started painfully to the door.
The silence was becoming painful when the man shrugged, and without a word, turned his horse away. Someone laughed, and the tension broke with a hum of low-voiced conversation. "Next horse, ready!" As the crowd drew back Alice Marcum leaned close to Purdy's ear. "I think it was splendid!" she whispered; "it was the bravest thing I ever saw." The man could scarcely believe his ears.
Reaching into his shirt-front he produced a salt bag which he tossed to Endicott. "Here's some sinkers I fetched along. Divide 'em up. I've et. It ain't no great ways back to camp " "How is she Miss Marcum? Did she suffer from the shock?" "Nary suffer. I fixed her up a camp last night back in the timber where we all landed, an' then came away."
The widow covered her face with her hands, and the Marcum at the window brother to Jim, who was dead lowered at her, listening keenly. "An' you got him by lyin' 'bout me. You tuk him by lyin' 'bout me didn't ye? Didn't ye?" she repeated, fiercely, and her voice would have wrung the truth from a stone. "Yes Becky yes!" "You hear?" cried Becky, turning her eyes to the girl.
In the afternoon a tale-bearer had brought some of Jasper's boasts to Rome, and, made reckless by moonshine and much brooding, he sprang up to lead them. Steve Marcum, too, caught up his gun, but old Sam's counsel checked him, and the two by force held Rome back. A little later the Lewallens left town.
Though not a single virtue relieves the vices of Tiberius in the Annals, Suetonius speaks of him as showing clemency when a public officer; Cassius Dio describes him as so humane that he condemned nobody for his estate, nor confiscated any man's goods, nor exacted money by force; and Velleius Paterculus makes him all but a pattern of the virtues, if Velleius Paterculus is an authority, it being just possible that his "Historiae Romanae ad Marcum Vinicium Consulem" may some of these days be as clearly proved to be as glaring a modern forgery, as I am now attempting to prove the Annals of Tacitus to be: certain it is that what we have of Velleius Paterculus is supplied by only one MS., which was found under very suspicious circumstances in very suspicious times.
A MIDSUMMER freshet was running over old Gabe Bunch's water-wheel into the Cumberland. Inside the mill Steve Marcum lay in one dark corner with a slouched hat over his face. The boy Isom was emptying a sack of corn into the hopper. Old Gabe was speaking his mind. Always the miller had been a man of peace; and there was one time when he thought the old Stetson-Lewallen feud was done.
He begged Steve Marcum to urge Rufe to seek aid from the law when the latter came back; and Steve laughed, and asked what justice was possible for a Stetson, with a Lewallen for a judge and Braytons for a jury. The miller pleaded with old Jasper, and old Jasper pointed to the successes of his own life. "I hev triumphed ag'in' my enemies time 'n' ag'in," he said.
Marcum was in the dust when the smoke cleared away; and now, after three months in bed, he was just out again. He had come down to the mill to see Isom. This was the miller's first chance for remonstrance, and, as usual, he began to lay it down that every man who had taken a human life must sooner or later pay for it with his own.
Whar's yer belt, boy? Git ready. Git ready." Isom rose then he could not answer sitting down and caught at a bedpost with one hand, while he fumbled at his throat with the other. "I hain't goin'." Steve heard at the door, and whirled around. Daddy Marcum was tottering across the floor, with one bony hand uplifted. "You're a coward!" The name stilled every sound.
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