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Updated: June 3, 2025
"I've brought you something, Lafe, and I wrapped it up in shortwood." The girl carefully slipped the strap from her shoulders and sat down beside it on the floor. Watching eagerly, Lafe peered between the bars, for surely his Peggy had sent him some token of her love. The girl paused and looked up. "Shut your eyes tight, Lafe," she commanded playfully.
There's another hundred pages in that blessed book that says good men like Lafe won't ever go into one of those chairs, never, never.... The Lord God Almighty ordered all those death chairs to be chopped up for kindling wood," she ended triumphantly. "Shortwood?" broke out Bobbie. Unheeding the interruption, Jinnie pursued: "They just left a chair for wicked men, that's all."
You can do it yourself, dear." One week later Jinnie went slowly up the incline that led to the prison. On her back was a shortwood strap filled with brush and small twigs. "I want to see Lafe Grandoken," she said. To surprise Lafe she crept softly along the corridor until she halted at his cell door. She could see him plainly, and the troubled lines were almost erased from between his brows.
Theodore would let no grass grow under his feet. He would marry her offhand, and educate her afterwards. Jordan wondered vaguely if the Jewish cobbler had an enemy among the shortwood gatherers. If so, and the man could be found, it would bring his own salvation.
It was a fortune for any girl to make, and what was better yet, buckled to her young shoulders in the shortwood strap was almost her next day's supply. As she replaced the money in her pocket and walked toward the market, she murmured gravely, "Mebbe Peg's kisses helped me to get it, but but I musn't forget Lafe's prayers." Her smile was radiant and self-possessed.
There's bucks and raes on Bilhope braes, There's a herd on Shortwood Shaw; But a lily-white doe in the garden goes, She's fairly worth them a'." "Has this fellow," said the Lord Keeper, when the yeoman's song had died on the wind, "ever served the Ravenswood people, that he seems so much interested in them?
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