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"Waal." said the moonshiner, evidently a man of short patience, and with a definite air of spurring on the visitor's account of himself, "we 'ain't been lookin' fur any spy lately, but I'm 'lowin' ez we hev fund him."
Ten minutes after he passed the Crossroads Elder Harricutt went across the Highway toward Economy to his day's work, and he would have loved to have seen Billy, and his rusty old wheel, staggering along in that crazy way and smelling of whiskey like a whole moonshiner, fairly reeking with whiskey as he joggled down the road, and a queer little tinkle now and then just inside his blouse as if he carried loaded dice.
"No," he answered, in incredulous amazement, "it's Holton and his gang. They're hunting Joe Lorey with dogs!" Madge hurried to his side, distressed beyond the power of words to tell. "Oh, oh!" she cried. "They're coming this way, and and who's that?" As she spoke Joe Lorey dashed up, breathless to the window. The moonshiner stood there, pathetic in his beaten strength before them.
You-all wouldn' like yo' husband to be a moonshiner, would ye?" The man's body leaned towards the girl, and he fixed her with a cruel stare from which she seemed unable to move her eyes. Seated as he was, he looked like a huge snake upreared to strike. He went on mercilessly. "O' co'se ye wouldn'. Ah expect you'd never hol' up yo' haid ag'in. What woman can when her man's that-a-way?"
The moonshiner turned away abruptly, with a bitter laugh that startled all the echoes. "I I promised my mother, too!" he cried. "It air good that in her grave whar she is she can't know how I hev kep' my word." And then there was a sudden silence. It seemed to Rick, strangely enough, like the sudden silence that comes after prayer.
Constant Hite, as he bluffly entered the passageway, his head up, his eyes wide and bright, his vigorous step elastic and light, gave no token of the spiritual war he had waged as he came. Already he felt in great jeopardy. On account of his illicit vocation he could ill abide the scrutiny of the law. With scant proof, he argued, a moonshiner might be suspected of highway robbery and murder.
Hite's open and candid mind could compass no adequate motive for concealment in all the ways of the world but the desire to evade the revenue law, or to practice the shifts and quirks necessary to the capture of the wary and elusive moonshiner.
And that reflection reminded him anew of his own danger here not from the lawless denizens of the place, but from the forces which he himself had evoked, and again he glanced out toward the water-fall as fearful of the raiders as any moonshiner of them all.
Nan has had a falling-out with the old scamp of a moonshiner who calls himself her father. She came to me for help, and broke down in the midst of telling me about it. I can't stand a woman's crying any better than other men." The slate-blue eyes were transfixing him. "And that was all absolutely all, Tom?" "I don't lie to you," he said briefly.
"Yes, sir," his interlocutor continued, "it's a mighty bad government ter run agin." Then he turned to the moonshiner, evidently taking up the business that had brought him here. "Lemme see what sorter brand ye hev registered fur yer cattle, Isham." Yerby's heart sank when the suspicion percolated through his brain that this man had been induced to come here for the purpose of recognizing him.
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