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Updated: May 6, 2025
"If it don't beat all and if I won't have my hands full yet with that girl 'fore she's growed up! That stubborn she is, like her pop ach, like all of us Metz's, I guess. Anyhow, it ain't easy raising somebody else's child. If only her mom would have lived, and so young she was to die, too."
He does not seem disconcerted at the sight of so great a number of people. On the contrary his mouth curls in a derisive smile. "O, you had better all go back to the breakers," he retorts. "We will see that Metz's body is buried." Then he pauses, waiting to see the effect his words will produce. On and on comes the tidal wave of humanity. If it is not checked soon it will deluge the palace.
Joan did not stir from her knees, but still lifted her happy face toward the King, and said: "No, gracious liege, you are he, and none other." De Metz's troubles vanished away, and he said: "Verily, she was not guessing, she knew. Now, how could she know? It is a miracle.
A committee came to me and asked if I would head a procession to come here and demand the body. We came and were refused it. Then we broke into the house and got Metz's body. "Some one started the cry, 'Find Purdy's body and bury it in Potter's field! This set the crowd crazy. I could not prevent their seizing it." Harvey Trueman listens to the stories of the men.
When all the men and boys had thus prayed and their little verses were very pleasant to listen to, the effect being of childlike simplicity the presiding elder closed with a brief extemporary prayer, whereupon all arose. Then he read some verses from one of their inspired books, admonishing to a good life; and also a brief homily from one of Christian Metz's inspired utterances.
"Sounds like somebody on the back porch," said Aunt Maria. "Guess I better go and see. With so many tramps around always abody can't be too careful." The sight that met Maria Metz's eyes as she opened the back door left her speechless. Phœbe turned and the two looked at each other in silence for a few long moments.
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