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Updated: June 18, 2025
"I shouldn't wonder," said Charlie, "though Calvary cemetery is about as near's I'll ever get to the country. Say, you can set here on this soap box and let your feet hang down. The last janitor's wife used to hang her washin' up here, I guess. I'll leave this door open, see?" "You're so kind," smiled Mary Louise. "Kin you blame me?" retorted the gallant Charles. And vanished.
I said to Si last night I should stand it till 'bout Friday, seein' 'em lay on the grass there, but if she didn't take 'em in then, I should go over and offer to help her. She has a fire in the settin'-room 'most every night, though we ain't had a frost yet; and as near's I can make out, she's got full red curtains hangin' up to her windows.
Thus far, he had been guilty of no nepotism whatever, and had treated his auntie as any other captive maiden, perchance fallen into his ruthless hands. "Well, she ain't so scared as she is mad, near's I can see," was his reply.
"They have gone back to Sweden," said Janice's informant, nodding over her sewing. "Yes. They had a stroke of luck. Mrs. Johnson told me herself in her broken talk. Near's I could find out her grandfather had died and left her a bit of property, and she and her family were going back to the place they came from ten years ago, to attend to it. Lucky folks, some of them foreigners.
The Boy slipped off his pack. "They've got rooms at the Gold Belt," he said. "You mean that Dance Hall up at the Forks?" "Oh, it ain't so far. I remember you can walk." "I can do one or two other things. Take care you don't hurt yourself worryin' about me." "Hurt myself?" "Yes. Bein' so hospittable. The way you're pressin' me to settle right down here, near's possible why, it's real touchin'."
Bolton, "that them women come up here for rest. I don't know what they want to rest from; but if it's from doin' nothin' all winter long, I guess they go back to the city poot' near's tired's they come."
"No near's soft and glidin'. 'Ere 'e comes back. H'I'll 'ave a look." Creeping close to a corner, he peered cautiously out, then with a roar: "Blime me, it's Rainey!" He sprang from concealment, almost embracing the young gob in his delight. It was a joyful meeting that took place between the united parties.
"Near's I can tell from what I hear about you," retorted the Cap'n, "built on racin' lines as you be, you've never let a man git near enough to lick ye." Again the Colonel noted that red vengefulness in the skipper's eyes, and recoiled suspiciously. "Oh, my rheumaticks!" the seaman hastened to moan. Ward had his back to the fence.
They niver know'd him while he was a-livin' with her, else they'd ha' know'd him here; but he hadn't lived with her but a mighty little while's near's I could make out. Yer see, she was powerful rich, an' he hadn't but little; 'n' for all she was so much in love with him, she couldn't help a-throwin' it up to him, sort o', an' he couldn't stan' it.
If there's anything that hoss ain't done in his day I don't know what 'tis. Near's I can find out he's tried every kind of work, in or out of traces, that you could think of." "Sho!" The Captain was now looking at the old white horse in an interested manner. "Yes, sir, that's a remarkable hoss," continued the now enthusiastic Mr. Holden.
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