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Updated: June 29, 2025
She was compelled, for the attainment of this object, to cross directly over the great hall, from the room adjoining and back of which the little shed-room projected in which she lodged. This hall was immediately entered upon from the passage-way, leading into the court in front, and but a few steps were necessary for its attainment.
"He ain't near so simple as he is ugly, Pappy Flanders ain't. I've seen him set here an' read the paper sober's anybody when I've been goin' about my mornin's work in the shed-room, an' when I'd come in to look about he'd twist it with his hands an' roll his eyes an' begin to git off some o' his gable.
Thunder clouds chased each other about the mountains, or met in sudden downfalls of rain. One sultry noon, when the sun had come out hot on the hills after a wet morning, Ruth Mary, at work in the shed-room, heard a sound that drove the color from her cheek.
A sudden terror thrilled through her as she again heard the heavy step approaching in the shed-room. "Whenst Abs'lom war a baby," she reiterated, her whole pleading heart in the tones.
"But say, give me a toast." He nodded toward the shed-room. "I'm on my honeymoon, you know." His hostess laughed timidly and glanced at him from the corners of her eyes. She wished to be sociable and make up as best she could for her rudeness on their arrival. "I ain't never heard but one fur honeymooners," she said softly. "Let's have it. I've never heard a toast for honeymooners in my life.
Only the broken sobbing of the woman in the little shed-room came faint and low on old Nance's ears. She slipped from the kitchen into the shadows of a tree near the house and listened until the sobbing ceased. She crept close to the shed and stood silent and ghost-like beside its daubed walls.
Thad had left the barn door unfastened, and, when that terrible flash of lightning came and the wind arose, the frightened animal had instantly fled to the house for safety. She had doubtless pushed open the back door of the shed-room easily enough, but it had closed behind her, and she had remained there a supperless prisoner.
She turned away without speaking, and took a pan from the shelf and went into the shed-room for potatoes. When she came back, she walked to her mother's side, and said in a low voice, "You needn't worry about the money any more, mother. I'll get it for Ben." "You, Em!" "Yes; I'm going over to Bassett's raisin-camp to pick grapes." "Oh, I don't think I'd do that, Emmy!"
A pause of bewilderment ensued. Then the young man's face took on an expression of dismay so ominous that Medora's tears were checked in the ghastly fear of disasters yet to come to her father-in-law. Now and again she glanced anxiously over her shoulder at an oblong black aperture in the dusk which betokened the open door of the shed-room.
In the wild confusion and bewilderment, Ben was somehow vaguely aware that Satan had often been in the shed-room before, in the antechamber of his own heart. And this, we may safely say, may apply to wiser people than poor Ben. In the midst of the general despair and fright, something suddenly whinnied.
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