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Why, they say some of the town people's that proud, if the front door-bell rings and the missus is standin' right there by it, she won't open that there front door but wants her hired girl to come clear from the kitchen to open it. Yes, you mightn't b'lee me, but I heerd that a'ready.
"I thought," she said, "when I see you standin' over there by the lights, that you must be one of the keepers. Not the head keeper I knew you wa'n't him but an assistant, maybe. But I guess you're only a visitor, Mister Mister ?" "Brown." "Yes, Mr. Brown. I guess you ain't no keeper, are you?" "I am the assistant keeper at present. Yes." "You don't say!" Mrs. Bascom looked surprised.
An' you'll never come so close bein' a widow again, Mrs. Fyfe, an' not be. That bullet was meant for Jack, I figure. He was sittin' down. Billy was standin' right behind him watchin' the logs go through. Whoever he was, he shot high, that's all. There, mother, don't cry. That don't help none. What's done's done." Stella turned and walked up to the house, stunned.
"Yes, mom," says he, a twirlin' his hat round, and standin' on one foot some like a patient old gander in the fall of the year. "Yes, mom, what you say is very true; but your elequent remarks, your very sociable talk, has caused me to tarry a longer period than is really consistent with the claims of business. As I told you when I first come in, I merely called to see if I could sell you"
I rid that there Blue Smoke hoss give 'em an exhibition of real ridin' and the fo'man sure fell for my style." "Uh-huh. What kind of a fall did you make?" "Well, I wasn't in shape to know till I come to. The fellas said I done all right till ole Smoke done that little double twist and left me standin' in the air only with my feet up. I ain't jest lovin' that hoss a whole lot." Andy nodded sagely.
"This house ought to be safe enough, ma 'am, standin' quite alone on this hill as it does; but it's a question of food. We never keep much of anything in the house, beyond what's needed for the week, and the California Market's right in the fire zone. And the smoke will be something terrible when the fire gets closer." "I shall stay in my own house.
"Then I'll tell you, but if Levi finds I've told he'll murder me as sure as you're standin' there. Come nigher I've got to whisper it." He leaned forward close to her where she sat. She looked swiftly from right to left; then raising her lips she breathed into his ear: "I'm an honest woman, Hi. I was married to Levi West before I run away."
Scenting a sensation, I hurried along the wooded trace at a dog trot, and when I came in sight of the cabin there was Mrs. Cowan sitting on the step, holding in her long but motherly arms something bundled up in nettle linen, while Tom stood sheepishly by, staring at it. "Shucks," Mrs. Cowan was saying loudly, "I reckon ye're as little use to-day as Swein Poulsson, standin' there on one foot.
Ike, I think I see Jane, your mother, standin' in the porch. I'll just give her a signal." He lifted up his voice and sang "Home, Sweet Home," with tremendous volume. He was heard, as Harry saw a sunbonnet waved vigorously on the porch. The travelers descended rapidly, crossed the brook, and approached the house.
But it didn't seem to take. I was jess goin' off, when darn my skin! if I didn't come across the bucket of water I'd fetched up from the spring THAT MORNIN', standin' there full, and NEVER TAKEN IN! When I saw that I reckoned I'd jess wade in, anyhow, and I knocked. Pooty soon the door was half opened, and I saw her eyes blazin' at me like them coals.
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