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"Ye ye've been so good to us, Miss Janice," blubbered Narnay, "I couldn't bear to see the young man in trouble no longer and you thinkin' as much as you do of him " "If I have done anything at all for you or yours, Mr. Narnay," sobbed Janice, "you have more than repaid me over and over again you have repaid me! Do stay here with your wife and the children. I am going to send Mr.
"I know something mebbe Mr. Haley would like to hear." "What is it, Narnay?" asked Nelson, kindly. "I I I hear folks says ye stole them gold coins out of the schoolhouse." Nelson looked startled, but Janice almost sprang out of her seat. "Oh, Jim Narnay!" she cried, "can you clear Mr. Haley? Do you know who did it?" "I see you you and schoolmaster air fond of each other," said the man.
"I want to see little Sophie, and and her mother." "Whatever you say, Miss," agreed the woodsman. They followed a rather rough street coveward, but arrived safely at the small collection of cottages, in one of which the Narnays lived. Jim Narnay was evidently without money, for he sat on the front stoop, sober and rather neater than Janice was used to seeing him.
He was whittling a toy of some kind for the little boys, both of whom were hanging upon him. Their attitude, as well as what Sophie Narnay had told her, assured Janice that the husband and father of the household was not a cruel man when he was sober. The children still loved him, and he evidently loved them.
"I am getting to be a wicked, wicked girl!" she accused herself, when she was well out of town and wheeling cheerfully over the Lower Road toward Middletown. "I have just longed to see that Simeon Howell properly punished ever since I caught him that day mocking Jim Narnay. And that arises from the influence of Lem Parraday's bar. Oh, dear me! I am affected by the general epidemic, I believe.
They was talkin' about holdin' meetings, an' pledge-signin', and stirrin' up the men folks ter vote nex' Fall ter make Polktown so everlastin'ly dry that all the old topers, like Jim Narnay, an' Bruton Willis, an' an' the rest of 'em, will jest natcherly wither up an' blow away! I tell ye, the Ladies' Aid is all worked up." "I wonder, now," said Uncle Jason, reflectively.
"It sure would be a help," said Trimmins, the twinkle in his eye again. "I reckon both me an' Narnay would 'preciate it." "Oh! you mean Jim Narnay?" asked Janice, with sudden solemnity. "Yes ma'am. I'm goin' to see him now. He's a grand feller with the axe and I want him to help me." Janice wondered how much work would really be done by the two men if they were up in the woods together. Yet Mrs.
Then, with sudden curiosity, she added: "What has that drug clerk got to do with the janitor of the school building?" "He's Benny's brother-in-law. But Jack's left town, I hear." "He's gone with Trimmins and Narnay into the woods," Janice said thoughtfully. "So he's out of it," grumbled Marty.
"So, after the teacher come into the buildin' and went out again, Jack put back the trays, slipped downstairs, dodged Benny and the four others, and went out at the basement door. Benny's always swore that door was locked; but it's only a spring lock and easy enough opened from inside. "That that's all, I guess," added Narnay, in a shamefaced way.
"Ever since that five dollar gold piece rolled out of your pocket yes," she said, and no more to Narnay's amazement than to Nelson's, for she had told the schoolmaster nothing about that incident. "My mercy, Miss! Did you git that five dollar coin?" demanded Narnay. "Yes. Right here on your porch. The Sunday you were at home." "And I thought I'd lost it.
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