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Arrested by his words, the crowd turned their eyes toward the man that stood in the door, waiting in silence for his reply. A quick flush rose to Shock's face, but without moving his eyes from the gay, laughing face of the boy, he said in a clear, steady voice, "I thank you, sir, for your courtesy, and I ask your pardon if my face was grave. I was thinking of your mother."
There was a curious smile on the boy's face, but an undertone of seriousness in his voice. "No," said Shock gravely, "I could not undertake that." "You see, Ike, I am too uncertain. Too far gone, I guess." Ike was too puzzled to reply. He had a kind of dim idea that in Shock there was some help for his boss, and he was disappointed at Shock's answer.
"Of course I trust it," Dick burst forth. "Your letter why, your letter isn't normal. Shell shock's a perfectly legitimate thing. You know it is. You're just the one to be hit. You did perfectly crazy things over there, entirely beyond any man of your years. And I'm mighty thankful we can put our finger on it. For if it isn't shell shock, it's something worse."
"I say," said Shock, as we extinguished the scrap of candle left, part of which had run down on Shock's hand; "we're shut up." "Shut up!" I said indignantly; "have you just found that out?" "Well, don't hit a fellow," he cried. "I say, have a bit?" "Bit of what?" I cried, as I realised how hungry I had grown. "Taller," he said. "Some on it run down. There ain't much; two or three little nobbles.
In Shock's work he was mildly interested, but toward all that stood for religion he cherished a feeling of bitterness amounting to hatred. True, out of respect he attended Shock's services, but he remained unmoved through all; so that, after the first joy in his friend's companionship, the change in him brought Shock a feeling of pain, and he longed to help him.
It was this memory that made their welcome of Shock so full of tender understanding. There is no speech like heart-speech, and during the hour in the Big River manse to Shock's heart there came how he could not have told the inarticulate message of sympathy that healed and comforted, so that he drove away rested and refreshed as with sleep.
It made Shock's heart quiver, for there came to him the picture of a tall girl with wonderful dark grey eyes that looked straight into his while she said, "You know I will not forget." It was this that made him hold the little woman's hand till she wondered at him, but with a woman's divining she read his story in the deep blue eyes, alight now with the memory of love.
McIntyre said: "We will take the books, as they say in my country." "Ay, and in mine," said Shock, coming out of his dream with a start. Mrs. McIntyre laid the Bible on the table. As he listened to the vivid words that carried with them the very scent and silence of the hungry wilderness, there fell upon Shock's ears the long howl and staccato bark of the prairie wolf.
There was to be a grand supper, of course, nothing Western would be complete without that feature, and in addition to the ordinary speeches and musical numbers there was to be a nigger-minstrel show with clog-dancing furnished by the miners and lumbermen from the Pass, at Shock's urgent invitation.
Shock's difficulty and distress were sensibly increased when on taking Ike over the "marks" of the regenerate man, as he had heard them so fully and searchingly set forth in the "Question Meetings" in the congregation of his childhood, he discovered that Ike was apparently ignorant of all the deeper marks, and what was worse, seemed to be quite undisturbed by their absence.
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