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He'd been thinkin' of marryin' her, so Angie said, but his folks had been talkin' to him, tellin' him he was too old to take such a young woman for his third wife, so he had made up his mind to throw her over, to write a letter sayin' it was all off between 'em. Well, he'd begun the letter but he never finished it, for three nights runnin' he dreamed that awful trouble was hangin' over him.
This, however, is something that Roland doesn't realise to this day; and I'm inclined to doubt if you could ever make him understand it. Josie, of course, was prompt to oust Angie Tuthill from her place in the choir. After that she sang with Nat on Friday nights as well as Wednesdays and twice per Sunday. Between whiles she was a pretty constant patron of the store.
Angie Hatton looked well, Tessie put it to herself, thus: "She looks like she'd cried till she couldn't cry no more only inside." And then, surprisingly, Tessie began to talk. "I wouldn't never have gone with this fella, only Chuck, he was gone. All the boys're gone. It's fierce.
"Heavens!" he whispered, aghast to recognise Josie Lockwood and Angie Tuthill, of whose ubiquitous shadows in his way he had been conscious so frequently within the past several days. "I thought I must have made an impression.... Don't tell me they're coming in!" Behind the counter he struggled furiously into his coat.
What can I do, Señorita, to find him once more?" Willa cut the woman's protestations short, and, calling up the garage their prearranged rendez-vous instructed Dan to meet her at the bridge. Intent on the new calamity, she gave no heed as to the probability of having been overheard by Angie, but hurriedly departed.
"They won't BE done till you go, Ase," continued the master of the house. "She'll stay with us till the last gun fires. T'other day Angie Phinney called and I turned Debby loose on her. I didn't believe anything could wear out Angie's talkin' machinery, but she did it. Angeline stayed twenty minutes and then quit, hoarse as a crow."
She looked from one to the other, like a trapped little animal. She put a hand to her tousled head. "That's all right," Angie Hatton assured her. "You can fix it after a while."
"Hey!" he called, and Angie promptly responded, not with the dignity for which she was famous but with an entirely human spontaneity: "Hey yourself!" She waited till he caught up with her. "Have you had an answer to that letter, Angie?" he inquired, glancing at a small bunch of letters she held in her hand. "No, I haven't." she replied, somewhat guardedly.
She's hurt. Quick!" "Whose car?" Chug was scrambling down the banks. "Hatton's. Angie Hatton's." "Gosh!" Over by the fence, where she had been flung, Angie Hatton was found sitting up, dizzily, and saying, "Betty! Betty!" in what she supposed was a loud cry but which was really a whisper. "I'm all right, dear. I'm all right. Oh, Angie, are you "
The morning after the receipt of this letter the girls at the watch factory might have remarked her pallor had they not been so occupied with a new and more absorbing topic. "Tess, did you hear about Angie Hatton?" "What about her?" "She's going to France.
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