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Updated: June 13, 2025
But, even so, she did not fully understand the change that was taking place in her. Her predominating thought was for the possession of little Vada, and she urged him with all the intensity of her longing. "You'll get her for me?" she cried, with an excitement that transfigured her. "You will. Oh, Jim, I can never thank you sufficiently. You are good to me. And when will you get her now?
But the innkeeper, who was also manager of the change-stables, told us that between Genoa and Vada Sabatia the road was blocked by landslides, washouts and the destruction of at least three bridges by freshets. He advised us to take the carriage-road by Dertona, the Mineral Springs, Crixia and Canalicum.
Then suddenly he turned, and his whole manner partook of an impotent heat. "He'd wrote I was to hand her, Vada, over to him ten miles out on this trail or there'd be trouble." Wild Bill stirred and shifted his seat with a fierce dash of irritation. His face was stern and his black eyes blazing. He spat out his chew of tobacco. "An' you was scared to death, like some silly skippin' sheep.
He set Jamie down, and, all unconscious of the little drama being played round his young life, the child stretched out a chubby hand in the direction of the soap-box he and his sister had been playing with. "'Piders," he observed laconically. Vada rushed past him to inspect their treasures, her tears already dried into streaks on her dirty little cheeks.
"I see Nan coming. Suppose 'Vada should take you two down to have your luncheon on the beach." "The pie, too?" "Yes, and other things, if your throat is better, so you can go." "O it's all well, cured with joy, I guess. Anyway mother said I might go outdoors, you know. It was the noise and smoke in town she thought would hurt me."
His sobs died out abruptly, and the boy in him stirred. "Me want t' eat," he protested, without preamble. The man looked up. "Eat?" he echoed vaguely. "Yes. Dinner," explained Vada, whose tears were still flowing, but who never failed as her little brother's interpreter. There was a moment's pause while Scipio stared down at the two faces lifted so appealingly to his.
He had forgotten the association to which he was sending the innocent Vada. No, no. Innocent little Vada. Jessie must do without her. He flung himself into a chair and gave himself up to passionate thought. For two hours he sat there raging, half mad with his hideous feelings against James. But as the long hours slipped away he slowly calmed.
Instantly Vada was on her knees, crawling from under the table, followed closely by her faithful shadow. She came cautiously up to Sunny's side and stood up. "M'lasses?" she inquired, and her eyes spoke volumes. "O-oh!" muttered Jamie, scrambling to his feet beside her holding up one fat hand. Sunny, without replying, allowed them to dip their fingers into the pot and taste the molasses.
Vada babbled with delight, and kept up a fire of chattering questions in a truly feminine manner, while little Jamie, stolid but no less joyous, devoured everything with hungry, thoughtful eyes, and punctuated his sister's remarks with characteristic grunts, and an occasional emphatic ejaculation and protest at the yellow pup, who would lick his dirty legs.
But if one be wanting in Exertion, great must his fear be with respect to the next world, for happiness can never be obtained in the next world unless one acts righteously while here. The commentator explains that hitam tad vada are understood in the last line.
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