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"No, it's his mother he's ceased to love," Todd said, coming inside. "He said he'd quit the old home and was moving his goods up to Wolf Creek for keeps. And with that fat tow-headed Gimpke girl sitting on the frisky bay colt as unconcerned as a bump on a log, it was the funniest sight I ever saw." Jo tossed her head contemptuously.
Good-night, gentle beings." And taking Leigh's arm, he led her away. "Gimpke is as awkward as a cow," Jo Bennington declared, "and too stupid to know what's said to her." But Rosie Gimpke, standing in the shadows of the darkened dining room, was not too stupid to understand what was said about her.
Thaine was lifting the buggy top as he spoke. Suddenly he exclaimed: "Oh, Leigh, look down yonder." He pointed down the little rift toward the water. "Where?" Leigh asked, looking in the direction of his hand. "Across the creek, around by the side of that hill. That's the Gimpke home stuck in there where you'd never think of looking for a house from up here.
Five days later her letter came back "unclaimed" with a brief statement from the Cloverdale postmaster that Miss Jane Aydelot had passed away on the day the letter was written, much beloved, etc. John Jacobs had no need to be warned by Asher Aydelot of Hans Wyker's doings. He knew all of Wyker's movements through Rosie Gimpke.
"Get me out of here as quick as you can, Doc," he said in a thick voice. At the same moment Rosie Gimpke appeared from the kitchen. "Slip him out queek now. I hold the dining room door tight," she urged, rushing back to the kitchen. Carey moved quickly and had Darley Champers safely out and into his own office before Rosie had need to relax her grip on the dining room door-knob.
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