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Wickersham had told him he was going back to New York on a certain day; but three days later, as Keith was returning late from his mines, he came on Wickersham and Phrony in a byway outside of the town. His arm was about her. They were so closely engaged that they did not notice him until he was on them. Phrony appeared much excited. "Well, I will not go otherwise," Keith heard her say.
As Keith passed this grave he saw that flowers had been laid on it recently, but they had withered. All the Ridge-neighborhood gathered to do honor to Phrony and to testify their sympathy for her grandfather. It was an exhibition of feeling such as Keith had not seen since he left the country. The old man appeared stronger than he had seemed for some time.
Other scholars came along and stared, wondering what had sent this usually tardy boy so far in advance of the bell. Little girls tittered. Phrony Walker tossed her braid flippantly over her shoulder, casually displaying a new hair ribbon with which she meant to impress the city girl who wore and needed none.
Tripper casually inquired of her daughter where she had been, a remark which might have escaped Keith's observation had not Ferdy Wickersham answered it in some haste. "She went after the cows," he said, with a quick look at her, "and I went fishing, but I did not catch anything." "I thought, Phrony, I saw you in the orchard," said her mother. Wickersham looked at her quickly again.
"Carietta's been to see the cops twice," she sobbed; "and I ain't been any." I only gathered from this that Carietta was somehow implicated as being the cause of the infant Sophronia's sufferings. "Now," said I gravely; "tell me what you mean?" "She means the cops!" cried Carietta, her small face distorted with a leer of the most horrid satisfaction, "'Lihu's cops. 'Phrony means the "
You will find a piece of it sawed so it will come out. In the wall behind it there ought to be a package." She found it readily, a thick packet securely tied with heavy twine and a little charred at the corners. "That's it," he said weakly. "Now one more last favor; please send Aunt 'Phrony up as you go down. Tell her I want my clothes."
"Well, there ain't but three ways to git to them coal-lands back up yonder in the Gap: one's by way of heaven, and I 'lows there ain't many land-speculators goin' by that way; the other is through hell, a way they'll know more about hereafter; and the third's through my land." Keith laughed and waited. "He seems to be hangin' around Phrony pretty considerable?"
"I don't know I know they are strange creatures," said Keith, almost with a sigh, as his past with one woman came vividly before him. "Well, they won't let a man go, noway, not entirely unless he's in the way. So, though Phrony don't keer nothin' in the world about Dave, she sort o' kep' him on-an'-off-like till this here young Wickersham come down here.
But great as were these changes, they were not as great as that which had taken place in the young person for whom they had been made. When Ferdy Wickersham drove up to the door, there was a cry and a scurry within, as Phrony Tripper, after a glance out toward the gate, dashed up the stairs.
"You don't suppose he could be hankerin' after Phrony for her property, do you?" "No, I do not," said Keith, positively, relieved that at last a question was put which he could answer directly. "Because she ain't got any," asserted the squire. "She's got prospects; but I'm goin' to remove them. It don't do for a young woman to have too much prospects.
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