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Updated: June 26, 2025
That's what Miah White said, sitting behind the stove in our kitchen over the shop; that's what Duncan thought as he paced back and forth, shaking his head. That's what they were all saying or thinking as they sat or wandered about. Such are the difficulties of serious men. And even while it all went on, Mary Matheson had gone about her choosing in the way that seemed fit to youth.
"'She shall come back, says I, 'with the hand of iron, says I." As always in this exalted state his phraseology grew Biblical. "'Thou shalt stay here," I heard him grunting. "'Here to the church thou shalt stay, Joshua, says I. 'And she shalt come back with the hand of iron the hand of iron!" "Yes!" I puffed. "That's right, Miah; only hurry. There!" I cried.
The hours from two till dawn that night I spent under the table in the kitchen, where Miah White and his brother Lem had come to talk with Duncan. And among the three of them, all they could say was "My heavens! My heavens!" I say till dawn; but our kitchen might have given on a city air-shaft for all the dawn we got.
The beachcomber himself, pale as putty through his half-grown beard, was beseeching us from the pink penumbra of the Apostle Paul: "You seen it? You seen what I seen?" but Miah wouldn't hear him, and mounting the steps and passing dull-footed through the vestry, came into the veiled light and heavy scent of breath and flowers.
You and I are young fellows, Dunc, but we ain't so young we can't remember them boys' father, and I guess he done a thing or two for us, eh?" "Yes," Duncan agreed calmly. "But what's to be done?" "God knows! But look here, Dunc, you're constable, ain't you?" Duncan smiled pityingly, as if to say, "Don't be an idiot, Miah."
It was plain that his blind gallop had brought him in collision with another denizen of the night; the protesting outburst came on the wind, and it was the voice of Miah White Miah the prophet, the avenger, drunk as a lord and mad as one exalted. There was no time for thought; I didn't need it to know what he was after.
When Miah had sunk down in a rear pew and bowed his head in his hands I really think you could have heard the fall of the proverbial pin. Then, with a scarcely audible rustle, all the faces became the backs of heads and all the eyes went to the figure unstirring by the corner window.
He's gone out in the back-country to pray alone." Aunt Nickerson wept quietly, peeping from the corners of her eyes. Reverent awe struggled with an old rebellion in Emsy's face, and in others as they came crowding. The trustee broke out bitterly: "Miah White's took to the bottle again, along o' him. If only he'd do his prayin' at Miah's house a spell, 'stead o' the back-country "
'Miah wuz a stun-mason, the best there wuz in the deestrik, an' the harnsomest boy there tew, though I say it thet shouldn't say it, he hed close-curlin' black hair, an' an arm it done ye good ter lean on.
Wal, uv course, my looks wuz sp'iled, fur I'd been ez pretty'z Emerline wuz, you wuz pretty once, Emerline, an' I sent 'Miah Kemp word I'd hev no more ter du 'ith him nor any one else neow. 'Miah, he come ter see me; but I wuz detarmined, an' I stuck ter my word.
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