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I knew more about it when I got through than when I began." Sleeny laughed a cordial laugh that wagged his golden beard and made his white teeth glisten. "I'll bet you did!" he replied.
His face was pale and disordered; he was twisting his fingers as if he would break them. "Your temper seems to be on the move, Mr. Sleeny. We'd better go home," she said quietly, drawing her shawl about her. "Don't go till I tell you something," he stammered hastily. "I have no curiosity to hear what you have to say," she said, rising from her seat. "It ain't what you think it ain't about me!"
Offitt, ghastly pale and trembling, had sunk upon a bench. The justice, looking at him narrowly, said: "The man is going to faint; loosen his collar." "No," said Offitt, springing to his feet. "I am perfectly well." In his struggle with Sleeny a button of his coat had been torn away. He asked a by-stander for a pin, and carefully adjusted the garment.
A few touches more of adroit flattery, and the agitator's victory was complete. Sleeny felt sore and tired to the very heart. He had behaved like a brute to the girl he loved; he had been put clearly in the wrong in his quarrel with her, and yet he was certain that all was not well with either of them.
He went into an eating-house and commanded a liberal supper. He had an odd fancy as he gave his order. "That's the sort of supper I would have, if it was my last if I was to be hanged tomorrow." He thought of Sleeny and hoped they would treat him well in jail. He felt magnanimously toward him. "Who would have thought," he mused, "that Sam had such a devil of a temper?
Offitt opened his mouth twice to speak and shut it again. "What are you doin'?" asked Sleeny. "Trying to catch flies?" "Sam," said Offitt at last, slowly and with effort, "if I was you, the first thing I did with that hammer, I'd crack Art Farnham's cocoa-nut." "Well, Andy, go and crack it yourself if you are so keen to have it done.
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