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Aileen made no reply; she was looking up the street to Poggi's fruit stall, where beneath a street light she saw a crowd of men from the quarries. "Romanzo said there was some trouble in the sheds do you know what it is?" she asked.
He writhed in the strong grasp. "I won't either. I haven't been half-back on our team for nothing; so stand still." And Romanzo stood still, perforce. Another minute and Aileen came running up the lane. She was wearing the same heavy shoes, the same dark blue cotton dress, half covered now with a gingham apron Mrs.
"'Coz they're all stuck up with spruce gum and Octavius said nothing would take it off but grease, and " she turned suddenly upon Romanzo, blazing out upon him in her wrath "I hollered ter yer so's yer could get some for me from Hannah, and you was just dirt mean not to answer me."
But he was sure Aileen's anomalous place in the household at Champ-au-Haut neither servant nor child of the house, never adopted, but only maintained could have been no sinecure. Anyway, he knew she had kept the devotion of her two admirers, Romanzo Caukins and Octavius Buzzby.
I suppose you think because you've led Romanzo Caukins and young Poggi a chase, you can do the same with Champney Googe but you'll find out your mistake; such men aren't led they lead. He is going to marry Alice Van Ostend." "Do you know this for a fact, Mrs. Champney?" She turned upon her sharply. She was, at last, at bay; her eyes were dark with anger; her lips and cheeks white.
Emlie, you'll drive me up in your trap we can get there before the men have a chance to get home keep a watch on the doings here in the town, Elmer, and telephone me if there's any trouble there's Romanzo coming now, I suppose he's got word from the office if you happen to see Father Honoré, tell him where I am, he will help "
"Champ wouldn't let me go," said Romanzo sulkily; "besides, I dassn't ask Hannah, not since I used the harness cloth she gave to clean down Jim." "Yer 'dassn't! Fore I'd be a boy and say 'I dassn't!" There was inexpressible scorn in her voice.
Champney had not deemed it expedient to furnish a wardrobe until the probation period should have decided her for or against keeping the child. She was bareheaded, her face flushed with the heat and her violent exercise. She stopped short at a little distance from them so soon as she saw that Romanzo was not alone.
The men did not look at one another, for each was feeling a certain degree of indignation, of humiliation and disappointment that one of their own, Champney Googe, should go back on Flamsted to the extent of allowing the "market" to place the great quarry interests, through non-payment of the workers, in jeopardy. "Has Romanzo heard direct from him to-day?" asked Emlie.
"Well, I don't deny but she lays claim to me most of the time; it's 'Octavius' here and 'Octavius' there all day long. Sometimes Mrs. Champney ruffs up about it, but Aileen has a way of smoothing her down, generally laughs her out of it. Is that the Colonel?" He listened to a step on the veranda. "Don't let on 'bout anything 'twixt Romanzo and Aileen before the Colonel, Joel."
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