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Standing with her back against the wall, she turned that something an envelope over twice, then tore off the end and pulled out the contents. It was the note she and Marthy had signed no longer than an hour ago, and written large across the face of it were the words: "Paid, Samuel Seabeck." "The old darling!" said Billy Louise under her breath and went straight in to show it to Marthy.
You've always kinda took the place of my Minervy to me, Billy Louise; and I won't bother yuh much longer." "Oh, of course I will! The stage will go up this forenoon. I'll send a note to Seabeck. It won't be any bother at all. What shall I say? Just that you want to see him?" "I kin write it m'self, I guess, if you'll bring me a pencil and paper. I can't seem t' git used to a pen.
Billy Louise stood holding the cup and saucer in her two hands, and stared down anxiously at the lined old face on the pillow. A faint, red glow was in the sky, and the lamp-light dimmed with the coming of day. "You don't feel badly, do you, Marthy?" "Me? No, Why should I feel bad? But I want t' see Seabeck and a couple of his men, jest as quick as you kin git word to 'em." "Which ones?"
Floyd Carson was a somewhat phlegmatic young man, but he swore an astonished oath when he saw Billy Louise galloping along the lane that led nowhere except to the womanless abode of Samuel Seabeck. He walked very fast to the stable, which was the first logical stopping-place, and so he met Billy Louise before she had time to dismount, even supposing she intended to do so. "Hello, Floyd! Is Mr.
"I'm liable t' suffer some gittin' that five hundred dollars paid up," Marthy returned with some acerbity. "I'm much obleeged to yuh, Mr. Seabeck, fer bein' so easy on us. If yuh hadn't drug Billy Louise into it, I'd say yer too good to be human." "Hmm-mm not at all," Seabeck stammered deprecatingly and left the room with what haste his natural dignity would permit.
"You kin look in that desk over there," permitted Marthy. "If yuh don't find any there, there ain't none nowhere." Seabeck did not find any blank notes. He found an eloquent confusion of jumbled letters and accounts and papers, and guessed that the owner had done some hasty sorting and straightening of his affairs. He sighed, and his blue eyes hardened for a minute.
He had a diffident manner of receiving compliments which pleased Billy Louise and gave her confidence a needed brace. She was not a skilled coquette; she was too honest and too straightforward for that. Still, nature places certain weapons in the hands of a woman, and instinct shows her how to use them. Seabeck, from his very unaccustomedness to women, seemed to her particularly pliable.
Her lips sagged with the pull of her aching heart. For the third time in her life Billy Louise saw big, slow tears gather in Marthy's hard blue eyes and slide down the leathery seams in her cheeks. Billy Louise looked, found her vision blurring with her own tears, and turned and tiptoed from the room. Seabeck was gone somewhere on his horse.
What did they say?" "Oh, they denied it, of course! What are we going to do about it, Ward?" "Nothing, I guess. What did you want to do?" "I don't know. I don't want to hurt them, and I don't want them to hurt anyone else. Do you know Seabeck? He's an awfully square old fellow. I believe " An idea formed vaguely in the back of Billy Louise's mind. "I believe I could persuade him "
She went over to her diffidently. Hesitatingly she laid her gauntleted hand on Marthy's stooped shoulder. She did not say anything. Marthy did not move under her touch, except to turn her dull glance upon Seabeck, standing there on the doorstep. "C'm in," she said stolidly. "What'd yuh come fer?" "Miss MacDonald will perhaps explain "
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