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The Squire laughed, with a rattling of loose teeth on his pipe-stem. "Why, he didn't fail according to the Little Flock; it was only the unbelievers that disbelieved in the miracles. Even those that went with him Over-the-Mountains to see the New Jerusalem come down got to having seen it as time went on, though some had their doubts when they first came back.
He flung his arms wide and bent his stalwart shape toward her. "Leatherwood's nothing, I tell you. Why, you ought to see the towns Over-the-Mountains; you ought to see Philadelphia, where I came from the last thing.
"It was Joseph Dylks." "Yes, I s'picioned that." "And he's been here, wanting me to go away with him Over-the-Mountains." Laban made a dry sound in his throat and it was by a succession of efforts that he could say, "And and and " "Oh, could you ask, Laban?" she lamented. "You're my husband, don't you know it?" At the sound of her lament a little voice of fear and hope answered from the cabin.
Redfield followed out behind Matthew Braile and his wife. "That settles it," he said. "I'll see to Mr. Dylks in the morning." "Now, I look at it differently. He's going, like he said he would, and we've got to let him go in his own way, and bring down the New Jerusalem Over-the-Mountains, or anywhere else he pleases, so he don't bring it down in Leatherwood." "I say so, too, Matthew.
"Mother," he began, "have you ever been Over-the-Mountains?" "No, I've never been anywhere but just here in the country, and where you was born, back where we moved from." "Well, mother, how old am I now?" "You're goin' on twelve, Joey dear." "Yes, that's what I thought. Benny ain't on'y ten. And he ain't as big for his age as what I am.
The mother hesitated, and the boy urged, "They say that strange man well, some calls him the Snorter and some the Exhorter is goin' to preach." The mother was still silent, and the boy faltered on: "He dresses like the people do Over-the-Mountains, and he wears his hair down his back " The mother gasped. "I don't like your being out late, Joey. I'd feel better if you and Benny was safe in bed."
For a pioneer community the people were none of them poor; some were accounted rich, and among the richest were many followers of Dylks. But most of the Flock were hardworking farmers who could not spare the time or the money for that long journey Over-the-Mountains, even with the prospect of the heavenly city at the end.
He saw the Good Old Man go right up into heaven, and said he was going to come back to earth before long and set up his kingdom here. He's never done it, and that slick preacher never came back, either, after the first. He was very well dressed and looked as if he had been living on the fat of the land, somewhere, among the faithful Over-the-Mountains, I reckon.
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