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Updated: June 21, 2025
"For the last two weeks, Louada Murilla, it don't seem as if I've smacked you or you've smacked me but when I've jibed my head I've seen that ga'nt brother-in-law o' mine standing off to one side sourer'n a home-made cucumber pickle." "It's aggravatin' for you, I know it is," she faltered. "But I've been thinkin' that perhaps he'd get more reconciled as the time goes on."
Last thing I done down-town was order the treat." He nested his head in his interlocked fingers and leaned back. "Louada Murilla, you and me is goin' to take solid comfort from now on and there's nothin' like bein' popular in the place where you live." He glanced sideways at the little blank-book. "We've been kind of neglectin' that, hain't we, wife?
As Cap'n Sproul trudged home, his little wife's arm tucked snugly in the hook of his own, he observed, soulfully: "Mattermony, Louada Murilla mattermony, it is a blessed state that it does the heart good to see folks git into as ought to git into it. As the poet says um-m-m, well, it's in that book on the settin'-room what-not. I'll read it to ye when we git home."
The red on the back of his neck grew deeper. At last the explosion occurred. "Louada Murilla Sproul, do you mean to say that you've had this thing in your fam'ly once, and was knowin' what it meant, and then let them three Shanghaiers come in here and shove this bloodsucker bus'ness onto me, and git away all safe and sound?
There are moments when a healthy body suddenly absorbs germs of consumption that it has hitherto thrown off in hale disregard. There are moments when the mind and courage are overwhelmed by panic that reason does not pause to analyze. Louada Murilla opened the front door when the chief constable knocked, after an exasperatingly elaborate hitching and blanketing of horses.
"I was intendin' to string the agony out and keep you on tenter-hooks a little spell, Louada Murilla," he went on. "But I hain't got the heart to do it. All is, they wouldn't accept that resignation, just as I've told you. It makes a man feel pretty good to be as popular as that in his own town.
"Them other two be they ?" "They're constables." "There ain't no hope. And it shows how desp'rit' they think I be. It shows they're bound to have me. It's life and death, Louada Murilla. If I don't git anything but State Prison, it's goin' to kill me, for I've lived too free and open to be penned up at my time o' life. It ain't fair it ain't noways fair!" His voice broke.
Let him be waked up good and plenty, and he won't be standin' around makin' faces at us. I see what's got to be done to make a happy home of this. You leave it to me." They saw the Colonel stamping in their direction from the barn. "You run into the house, Louada Murilla," directed the Cap'n, "and leave me have a word with him." The Colonel was evidently as anxious as the Cap'n for a word.
I'll git to salt water. I know skippers that will take me aboard, even if they have to stand off the whole United States. I've got friends, Louada, as soon as I git to tide-water. It won't hurt 'em in there a bullet in the leg. And it's life and death for me. There's foreign countries where they can't take me up. I know 'em, I've been there. And I'll send for you, Louada Murilla.
Your sister, Louada Murilla " The gaunt man clacked his bony fists together in ecstasy of rage. "She was christened Sarah Jane, and that's her name. Don't ye insult the father and mother that gave it to her by tackin' on another. I've told ye so once; I tell ye so "
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