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"But, gentlemen," cried Markle heatedly, "none of you would stand such conduct from anybody! What are we coming to? I'll get that as sure as God made little apples." "That's all right; I don't blame yo'," argued Calhoun. Bennett. "Do not misunderstand me, suh. I agree with yo', lock, stock, an' barrel. My point is that yo' must be circumspect. Challenge him, that's the way."
Grimes, and that she has been very industrious in circulating it to my injury." "Perhaps you wrong Mrs. Grimes there," spoke up Mrs. Markle. "She did not mention it to me until I inquired of her if the report was true. And then she told me that she had never told it but to a single person, in confidence, and that she had inadvertently alluded to it, and thus it became a common report.
Not more than half an hour after the departure of Mrs. Comegys, Mrs. Grimes called in to see Mrs. Markle. "I hope," she said, shortly after she was seated, "that you won't say a word about what I told you a few days ago; I shouldn't have opened my lips on the subject if you hadn't asked me about it.
My present object in addressing you is to ask, as a matter of justice, that you will call at my house to-morrow at twelve o'clock. I think that I am entitled to speak a word in my own defense. After you have heard that I shall not complain of any course you may think it right to pursue. Mrs. Markle, could do no less than call as she had been desired to. At twelve o'clock she rang the bell at Mrs.
"But as you have done so, you are, of course, entitled to an answer." There came another pause, after which, with a disturbed voice, Mrs. Markle said "For some time, I have heard a rumor in regard to you, that I could not credit. Of late it has been so often repeated that I felt it to be my duty to ascertain its truth or falsehood.
Isn't it sad?" murmured Mrs. Markle, as she heard the street door close upon her visitor. "So much that is agreeable and excellent, all dimmed by the want of principle. It seems hardly credible that a woman, with every thing she needs, could act dishonestly for so small a matter. A few yards of lawn against integrity and character! What a price to set upon virtue!"
Grimes, I don't see that you need be so anxious about keeping it a secret," returned Mrs. Markle. "The truth! Do you think I would utter a word that was not true?" "I did not mean to infer that you would. I believe that what you said in regard to Mrs. Comegys was the fact." "It certainly was. But then, it will do no good to make a disturbance about it.
Comegys has already called upon me to ask an explanation of my conduct wards her." "She has!" Mrs. Grimes seemed sadly distressed. "What did you say to her?" "I told her just what I had heard." "Did she ask your author?" Mrs. Grimes was most pale with suspense. "She did." "Of course you did not mention my name." "She asked the author of the charge, and I named you." "Oh dear, Mrs. Markle!
It was a pretty hard trial for her, but urged on by a sense of right, she called upon her two or three days after having been treated so coldly. She sent up her name by the servant. In about five minutes, Mrs. Markle descended to the parlor, where her visitor was awaiting her, and met her in a reserved and formal manner, that was altogether unlike her former cordiality. It was as much as Mrs.
"My advice to you," he said to Markle, "is that if you think you're going to have to kill this man in self-defence" he rolled an unabashed and comical eye at the company "you be sure to see our old friend, Sheriff Webb, gets you to jail promptly." He heaved to his feet, "Might even send him advance word," he suggested, and waddled away toward the bar. A dead silence succeeded his departure.
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