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Updated: May 15, 2025
A dumb, unuttered love for the two shock-headed babies he had left behind in the split-board cabin was the one big thing in Anse Dugmore's whole being bigger even than his sense of allegiance to the feud. "My young uns, Shem?" "Wyatt Trantham took 'em and he kep' 'em he's got 'em both now." "Does he does he use 'em kindly?" "I ain't never heered," said Shem simply.
On reconnoitring the place the next day, he found that the Saltzburgers had constructed a bridge over the river, ten feet wide and eighty feet long; that four good framed houses had been erected at the charge of the Trustees, one for each minister, one for a schoolmaster, and one for a public store; and that a chapel, a guard-house, and a number of split-board houses had been built by the people.
There was no reply, immediate or audible; he was near the limits of his endurance; he drew his arm back to throw the Bible into the flames of his fireplace, but that he could not do. He tossed it upon the shelf, drew his hat down upon his ears and at the approach of night started over the ridges to the Kalbean stillhouse. He stalked down a ridge into that split-board shack of infamy.
She stepped lightly into the yard, pushed open the gate of the split-board garden fence, walked along the edge to the corner and selected a spade from the tools that leaned against the boards. Carrying the spade and unlighted lantern in her left hand, she glided from the yard into the woods.
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