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For three hours earlier he had read a close paraphrase of it in a copy of the Tomb City Picayune which he had bought at that city. The train ran slower and slower, and out on to a shallow embankment. "Do you think we shall ever get anywhere?" queried the lady. "Not when we expect to, Ma'am," said Saterlee.
But not for a whole minute did the sensation caused by the whip appear to travel to the ancient mare's brain. Not till reaching a deep puddle did she seem suddenly aware of the fact that she had been whipped. Then, however, she rushed through the puddle, covering Saterlee and the lady with mud, and having reached the other side, fell once more into a halting walk.
The lady advanced to his side, counting the change in her purse. "Seventy-six dollars and eighty-five cents," she said. "Eighty dollars," said Saterlee. "Oh!" cried the lady, "seventy-six eighty-five is every cent I've got with me and you're no gentleman to bid higher." "Eighty," repeated Saterlee.
It was then that a panting, female voice was raised behind him. "Sixty dollars!" His showy acquaintance of the dining-car had followed him along the ties as fast as she could, and was just come up. "I thought you two was a trust," commented the proprietor's wife, pausing with her needle in the air. "But it seems you ain't even a community of interests." "Seventy dollars," said Saterlee quietly.
"I guess your dress ain't really hurt," commented Saterlee. "I remember my old woman Anna had a brown silk that got a mud bath, and came through all right." "This is an old rag, anyway," said the showy lady, who was still showy in spite of a wart-like knot of dried mud on the end of her nose. And she glanced at her spattered but graceful and expensive white linen and hand-embroidered dress.
In most affairs, except those which related to his matrimonial ventures, Marcus Antonius Saterlee was a patient man. On three occasions "an ardent temperament and the heart of a dove," as he himself had expressed it, had corralled a wife in worship and tenderness within his house.
I am told he is a great, rough, bullying man. No wonder the poor souls died. The son is a tremendous great fellow, too. Oh! blood will tell every time," she exclaimed. "M. A. Saterlee, the cattle man do you know him?" "Yep!" Saterlee managed, with an effort that would have moved a ton. "I am going to appeal to her," said the lady. "I have been a good mother to her. I have suffered for her.
Earlier in the night the darkness and the stars had wormed a story of divorce out of Mrs. Kimbal, and Saterlee had found himself longing to have the man at hand and by the throat.
Kimbal seemed to divine the cause of his embarrassment. "Please," she said, "don't mind anything on my account." He reached desperately, and regardlessly, for his boots, unlaced them, and took them off. "Why," exclaimed Mrs. Kimbal, "both your heels need darning!" Saterlee had tied his boots together, and was fastening them around his neck by the remainder of the laces.
And my business at Carcasonne House is the same as yours." She was silent for a moment. And then: "Well," she said, "here we are. And that's lucky in a way. We both seem to want the same thing that is, to keep our children from marrying each other. We can talk the matter over and decide how to do it." "We can talk it over anyway, as you say," said Saterlee.
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