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It ain't right for you to go by yourself ... Jacky," she called out to the kitchen, "you be a good boy! Maw'll be home soon." Eleanor shook her head in wordless protest. But Lily had tucked her hand under her arm, and was walking along beside her. "He ought to look out for you!" Lily said; "I declare, I've a mind to tell that man what I think of him!"
"Maw'll just about skin you alive for that when I tell her you set the shed afire!" Bessie turned a white face toward him. "You wouldn't say that!" she exclaimed. But she saw in his scared face that he would tell any lie that would save him from the consequences of his recklessness. And with a sob of fright she turned to Zara. "Come, Zara!" she cried. "Get away!" "Come with me!" said Zara.
"There's more room in here," she insisted with sweet buoyancy. Hamlet Graves rose. "Here, Cousin Daphne!" His brother Lazarus stood up with him. "Here, John, your maw'll feel better if you're a-sett'n' by her." But she urged the seat, with coy temerity, upon Mr. Ravenel. "How well she looks in mourning," remarked two Blackland County ladies. "Yes, she's pretty yet; what a lovely smile."
But what's worryin' me right now is I'm wonderin' what your maw'll say to me when she finds out." "You can say we been south on business." "Yes," grunted Bud, "and I got the receipt right here on my left wing." "Hurtin' you much?" "Just enough to let me know I'm livin' and ain't ridin' through hell shootin' down a lot of pore, drunk fools that's tryin' to run the oven.
"Well, Maw'll be mighty mad at you, for Mother Mayberry asked her last night to let you cut it and she said she'd thimbled the rest of us and she reckoned he could stand it too. If it was me, I'd let you cut me wide open and sew me up again if you wanted to," and Eliza beamed upon the Doctor with an affection that was the acme of idealization.
The first warning that they had that they were not alone came when a long arm reached out suddenly and a skinny, powerful hand grasped Zara's arm and dragged her from her perch. "Caught ye this time, ain't I?" said the owner of the hand and arm, appearing from around the corner of the shed. "My, but Maw'll pickle yer when she gits hold of yer!" "Jake Hoover!" exclaimed Bessie, indignantly.
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