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Updated: June 14, 2025
I thought at first it was my dress that I looked funny, somehow; but you said it wasn't that, so I thought maybe it was because we were 'in sheep, but so is Neifkins, and nobody treated them as they did me." "The upstarts!" savagely. "I'll never forgive myself for taking you there!" She protested quickly: "You're not to blame. How could you know? You meant to do something nice for me, Hughie."
"It's nearer the music," said Neifkins with an apologetic grin to the others. Those who stayed had something of the air of brazening it out. In vain Mr. Butefish called sternly for, "One more couple this way!" It was Scales of the Emporium who said, finally: "Looks like we don't dance might as well sit down." Every one acted on the suggestion with alacrity save Kate and Hughie.
Two days later, Kate was disinfecting the wound of a sheep that an untrained dog had injured when a note from the Security State Bank was handed her by one of Neifkins' herders. It was signed by its President, Mr. Vernon Wentz, late of the White Hand Laundry, and there was something which filled her with forebodings in the curt request for an immediate interview.
Neifkins, who was picking at a French knot in a spasm of nervousness lest Kate betray the fact that they had met. Disston was aware that Mrs. Neifkins knew Kate and his lip curled at her cowardice. He raised his head haughtily; he would not subject his partner to further rebuffs. "Come on, Katie," he said, curtly, and they passed into the dining room.
It was a random shot, but the president's face showed that it went home. He gathered himself immediately, but not before Kate who, on coming in brushed shoulders with the departing Toomey, had heard the speech and noted its effect. So Neifkins had had a big loss! She grasped the full significance of it at once and exultation filled her heart.
"But not to the extent that you did when you tried to put the screws on me for Neifkins' benefit. With every means at your command you endeavored to take advantage of my necessity.
"I got herders that know what to do that's what I pay 'em for." "Knowing what to do won't help much, with the snow too deep for the sheep to paw, and a two-days' drive from hay, even if you could get through." There was the maximum of exasperation in the president's voice. Neifkins replied stubbornly: "I've pulled through fifty storms like this and never had no big loss yet."
Neifkins squared his thick shoulders in the chair. "Look here I don't allow no man to tell me how to run my business! When that note comes due I'll be ready to meet it, so there's no need of you gettin' cold feet as reg'lar as a cloud comes up." He arose. "This storm ain't goin' to last. May be a lot of snow will fall, but it won't lay."
Her answer came with the decisive snap of a rapid fire gun. "Certainly not. You demonstrated your unfitness to occupy a position of such responsibility when you allowed yourself to be influenced by a man of Neifkins' stripe, to say nothing of the lack of knowledge of human nature which you have shown in your dealings with me.
At one we are very old-fashioned. I want you to meet some of our best ladies Mrs. Sudds Mrs. Neifkins Mrs. Toomey and others." As she enumerated the guests on her fingers the tip of Mrs. Pantin's pink tongue darted in and out with the rapierlike movement of an ant-eater.
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