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Updated: May 29, 2025
Will yore men agree ter hold matters es they stands twell this time termorrer?" Jim Rowlett glanced at Hump Doane and the cripple nodded an energetic affirmation. He was hard to convince but when convinced he was done with doubt. "I'd ruther heer Mr. Thornton talk thetaway," he declared, crisply, "then ter hev him answer up heedless an' over-hasty."
She turned her horrified face away and surrendered to a fresh paroxysm, but at length she stammered between gasps that wrenched her tightened throat: "Kiver him up first, Ken. Kiver him up ... I kain't endure ter look at him thetaway!" Although the moments were pricelessly valuable, the man straightened the contorted limbs of the dead body and covered it decently with a quilt.
"I does still, Bas," she smiled with that sweet serenity that men found irresistible as she reached for the basket, but the man sat with eyes brimming melancholy and fixed on the violet haze of the skyline until she noticed his abstraction and inquired: "What ails ye, Bas? Ye're in a brown study erbout somethin'." He drew back his shoulders then, and enlightened, "Sometimes I gits thetaway.
Hit's been punishment enough fer ye ter endure him this long ... ter hev been wedded with a brute ... but ther child's got hits life ter live ... an' hit kain't be borned in no jail house!" "I reckon " the response came weakly from the heaped-up covers "I reckon hit's got ter be thetaway, Ken." "By God, no!
"I wonder," she mused, as yet without suspicion of the trend of his suggestions, "how she come through hit all by herself thetaway?" The man's face twitched with one of those emotional paroxysms that once in a long while overcame his self-command. Then it became a face of shadowed anxiety and his voice was heavy with feeling. "I've done been ponderin' thet day an' night hyar of late, honey.
Ye've done led 'em thetaway, Ken, an' folks trusts ye, Harpers an' Doanes alike. Now ye kain't afford ter start in leadin' 'em wrong ye kain't afford ter dirty yore hands with bloodshed, Ken. Ye kain't afford ter do hit!" The man stood off looking at her with a love that was almost awe, with an admiration that was almost idolatry, but the obduracy persisted in his eyes.
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