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"An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth, that's my motto, and your wife thought I wasn't good enough to eat at the table with her." "You hear?" Stott turned to Wallie furiously. "He did it on purpose. I demand that you discharge this fellow!" Mr. Hicks' fingers caressed the stove-wood while he waited Wallie's answer. Wallie squirmed between the two of them. "It was reprehensible, Mr.
But now he recalled Wallie's parting speech to Pinkey when he had started to get the paper cashed, and this fantastic company was the result! As Canby drew in his horse, he stared in stony-eyed unfriendliness while they waved at him gaily and Mr. Stott called out that they were going to be neighbourly and visit him soon.
Somewhere in the darkness Conniston's voice was urging him, as it had urged him up in the cabin on the Barren: "Don't walk into a noose. If it comes to a fight, FIGHT!" And then something happened that brought his heart to a dead stop. He was close to the door. His ear was against it. And he was listening to a voice. It was not Wallie's, and it was not the iron man's.
In no uncertain voice Wallie called to him. "You will oblige me if you will ride more slowly," Wallie said, speaking very distinctly when Mr. Stott came back to ask what was wanted. "Why, what's the matter?" His feigned innocence added to Wallie's anger. "I don't want that horse ruined." "I am paying for him," Stott returned, insolently.
"Certainly if there's anything you can teach me," Wallie's smile said as plain as words that he doubted it. "Mr. Fripp er 'thumb' him." "You're the doctor," said Pinkey, grimly, and "thumbed" him. The effect was instantaneous. The old horse ducked his head, arched his back, and went at it.
Wallie's face was sober as he confided: "If anything went wrong I'd be done for. I'm so near broke that I count my nickels like some old woman with her butter-and-egg money." "I guessed it," said Pinkey, calmly, "from the rabbit fur I see layin' around the dooryard."
Hicks, too, started breakfast in a mood that was clearly melancholy, for as he rattled the pots and pans Wallie heard him reciting: "And when my time comes, let me go not like the galley slave at night scourged to his dungeon but like one sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust " He stopped suddenly, and then in a voice that chilled Wallie's blood he shouted: "Jumping Je-hoshaphat!
"Horses of that class are selling around $500, but you might venture a little more, since you like them." "That's just about what I am able to pay. My goodness, but I hope I'm not outbid! You wouldn't believe how nervous I am. It's such a new experience that I am really agitated." The statement was unnecessary, since Canby could see Wallie's knees trembling in his riding breeches.
He was twenty-four, and, in appearance, a credit to any woman he was seen with, to say nothing of the two hundred thousand it was known he would inherit from Aunt Mary, who now supported him. Wallie's appearance upon the veranda was invariably in the nature of a triumphal entry.
The cars behind were waiting and making a terrific din, and a traffic man ran up then and made him move on. He gave me the strangest look as he went. I stood and waited, thinking he would turn and come back again at the end of the line, but he didn't. I almost missed my train." Wallie's first reaction to the news was one of burning anger and condemnation. "The blackguard!" he said.
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