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"You would not, Harriet?" "Why should I? A girl wants a husband she can lean on and go to in every trouble she has. You wouldn't fill the bill, Mr. Westerfelt. Good gracious, no!" She turned back towards the hotel, and like a man with his intelligence shaken from him by a superior force, he tried to keep at her side. In silence they reached the steps of the hotel.
Only one of the band showed a revolver. Westerfelt believed him to be Toot Wambush. He had not spoken a word, but was one of the two that had ridden close behind him up the mountain. One of the white figures unstrapped a pillow from the back part of his saddle. He held it between his knees and gashed it with a knife. "By hunkey! they're white uns," he grunted, as he took out a handful.
"Wait, then!" yielded the jailer. Westerfelt heard a door slam and chains clank and rattle on the wooden floor; a bolt was slid back, the front door opened, and the white drift parted to receive a dark form. "Whar's my hoss?" doggedly asked Toot Wambush. "Out thar hitched to the fence," answered the leader. "You-uns was a hell of a time comin'," retorted Wambush.
"Harriet, little, suffering, wronged woman, I know something about you. I know what has been worrying you so much since I came here." She started and an awful look crept into her face. "Oh, Mr. Westerfelt, do you?" "Yes, I know it that's enough now; let's agree never again to speak of it. I don't want to talk about it, and I reckon you don't. Anyway, it can't be helped." "No, it can't be helped."
Washburn stared blankly at him for an instant, then he said, slowly, "All right." "You'd better get it to-night," added Westerfelt. "All right, sir. I'll attend to everything." "Cool as a cucumber," laughed a man. "Next thing you know he'll give orders 'bout whar he wants to be buried, an' what to have cut on his grave-rock." The whole gang laughed at this witticism, and started on again.
It had, therefore, been announced that the Sunday service would be held at Stone Hill Camp-ground, two miles from the village on the most picturesque of the Cohutta Valley roads. As Westerfelt went down to the stable after breakfast he saw wagons, hacks, and old-fashioned carriages standing at nearly every gate on the street.
Ef Luke had one speck o' manhood left in him, he'd " Bradley advanced from the door, and drew his wife away from Westerfelt. "Don't act so daddratted foolish," he said. "No harm hain't been done yet no serious harm." Still holding her hand, he turned to Westerfelt; "They've tried to do you dirt, John, I know, but them boys will be the best friends on earth to you now.
Just then Harriet and her friends passed, and Westerfelt saw the girl looking inquiringly at Mrs. Dawson. He heard the old woman grunt contemptuously, and saw her toss her head and fiercely eye Harriet from head to foot as she went down the aisle. Westerfelt shuddered. He wondered if the old woman could possibly know of Harriet's past connection with Wambush and her girlish infatuation.
"He got up as soon as the Whitecaps came; I couldn't persuade him to go back." "We must carry him to the bed," said Mrs. Floyd. As they started to raise him, Westerfelt opened his eyes, took a long breath, and sat up. Without a word he rose to his feet, and between them was supported back to his bed. "His feet are like ice," said Mrs. Floyd, as she tucked the blankets round him.
I never could see how women kin set an' rub an' rub the'r gums with it like they do. I reckon it's jest a sort o' habit." "I'm sorry," said Westerfelt, "but I don't know where my uncle keeps his tobacco." "Well, I reckon I'll strike some chawin' man down at the meetin'-house." Lithicum stood, awkwardly cutting the air with his whip. "Railly, thar is one thing more," he said, haltingly.
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