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She need not have feared, he had just come from his room, and from his knees. He spoke abruptly and with a touch of nervousness: "Dr. Douglass, may I have a few words with you in private?" Dr. Douglass' "Certainly, if Miss Sadie will excuse us," was both prompt and courteous apparently, though the tone said almost as plainly as words could have done, "To what can I be indebted for this honor?"
"Honest, Miss Sadie, I I just been trying for the better part of two weeks to ask permission if I could come and call on you some evening, Miss Sadie, but " "Whoops! ain't he the daredevil!"
Sadie and Rosie sometimes discussed the tough girls, and the conversation nearly always ended with one remarking: "Well, if they don't get anything else out of livin', look at the clothes they put on their backs." Perhaps you can understand that longing for pretty gowns, perhaps you can even sympathize with it.
"He doesn't know I have come," Sadie answered calmly. Wilkinson studied her and did not like her look. Her face was hard, her color higher than usual, and her eyes sparkled ominously. "Well," he said, "you told me you would pay no more of your husband's debts, but this is not a debt. Besides, the money must be Bob's, since he gave me the cheque." "Why did he give it you?"
He scrawled a few lines to Sadie, stood the note up across the face of the clock, and, his shoes in his hand, stole down the stairs and out of the house. The country slept under the hush that comes before the dawn. There was not a rustle in the roadside trees, a whisper in the grass. Farmhouse and mansion showed in forms of opaque black, muffled in black foliage and backed by a blue-black horizon.
There was something strangely exhilarating in the air and the dusty office smelt of salt-pork and cheese. It was a glorious day for a drive, he need not stay long at Wilkinson's, and the team needed exercise. Moreover, Sadie was not about and would not come home until afternoon; he might get back before her. He hesitated for a few minutes and then sent an order to the stable.
As the sound of her footsteps died away in the distance Sadie sank upon a chair and gave vent to a ringing peal of mirthful laughter. "Moss rosebuds!" she panted. "They will look 'pretty' with her dress! Oh, innocence! thy name is Katherine."
"It's a wonderful day, and there isn't much to do here...." "Sadie Burch? Sadie Burch? Sure, I know her!" answered the lanky man driving the flivver tractor nearby, as he inspected the motor carrying Mr. Tutt. "She lives in the second house beyond the big elm " and he started plowing again with a great clatter. The road glared white in the late afternoon sun.
Gray was thirty, and so sweet and so lovely, you cannot imagine it; and Sadie was ten, and just like her mother, just a darling slender little copy of her, with auburn tails down her back, and short frocks; and the baby was a year old, and plump and dimpled, and fond of me, and never could get enough of hauling on my tail, and hugging me, and laughing out its innocent happiness; and Mr.
Brandeis said to him. `Pearl, did Aloysius send Eddie out with that boiler, special? And she didn't pay any more attention to him, or make any more fuss over him, than she would to a traveler with a line of samples she wasn't interested in. I guess that's why he had such a good time." Sadie was right. That was the reason.
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