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I do not deny that I should like to see you leave this place, never to return; I acknowledge that I would bribe you to go, but I would not give countenance to a mob that would force you to leave." Lyman looked at him with a cool smile. "Do you mean to tell me, Mr. McElwin, that Sawyer did not speak to you of his intention to take me out as if I were a thief or a wife-beater " "Stop, sir!"
I have never been known to violate the law, sir." "Oh, no one would suspect you of that, Mr. McElwin. We all know that you never break the law, but we don't know that you are not sometimes aware that the law is going to be broken. Good morning." "Wait a moment, sir. Do you mean to tell me that I am suspected of complicity in this infamous outrage?" "No, I don't mean to tell you that.
"I went over to the bank and waited till McElwin came, and I had a talk with him. I told him that his daughter could never care for me, and that even if you should sign the petition I would refuse to recognize his authority in trying to compel her to marry me. She is in every way above me, so far beyond my reach that I don't love her. I have to go to another place the court house.
"He couldn't take offense at that," he said. "At least no sensible man ought to. Suppose you write me a check payable to him." McElwin, without replying, made out a check, blotted it and handed it to Sawyer. "Come back and tell me," he said. Lyman was writing when Sawyer tapped at the open door. "Come in," said the writer.
"I am glad you have begun to think," he said, smiling at her. "I knew the time would come, and, as it has come, let me ask you a question. Did you request this Mr. Lyman to sign the petition?" "I mentioned it to him." "You did. That ought to have been sufficient. What did he say?" "He said that he would under certain conditions." McElwin winced in memory of his and Sawyer's visit to Lyman.
It was the first time that the lawyer had ever received the great man's attention, but knowing the cause of the interest now manifested, he was determined to dally with it as a sort of revenge. "Any news, Mr. Caruthers?" "Oh, you know my name. I am much flattered, I assure you. Of course I have known you for many years, but I didn't think you remembered me." McElwin stood blinking at the sun.
Yes, that's all right, too, but the highways are full of educated men, looking for something to do. Sawyer is worth a dozen of him." Mrs. McElwin glanced at her daughter, as if she had heard a footstep on dangerous ground. She was not far wrong. "Sawyer is a man, ready " "He has not shown it," the girl was bold enough to declare.
"Don't say that. You must. I have thought it over, and I know it's for the best." "You have permitted him to think it over, and you hope it is for the best," the daughter replied. At eleven o'clock the next day, Zeb Sawyer was to meet McElwin at the bank.
"When I spoke of the meeting of the court," said Lyman, pretending to have paid no attention to McElwin's remark concerning Sawyer, "I wished to remind you of the petition for divorce." "Yes, quite right," McElwin replied, uncrossing his legs and putting out his hand as if unconsciously feeling for his dignity, to pull it back to him.
"It may not interest you, but it has been put to Eva and me as a matter of duty, that we ought to go out to Mt. Zion to hear Henry Bostic preach." McElwin grunted: "Menifee may put it as a matter of duty, but I don't. Fortunately I have other duties that are of much more importance. I will not go." "He didn't seem to expect that you would," she replied. "I hope not.
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