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Updated: June 10, 2025
Ollie's papa soon came back, bringing with him a bag for Lucy, which contained everything that she could possibly want during the night. The wind, instead of abating, increased in fury. It roared and screamed about the house like an angry wild beast.
He went, and met about forty other persons who had been invited in the same casual way, including his brother Ollie and to his great consternation, Ollie's friend, Mr. Gamble! Gamble was clad in a spotless yachting costume, which produced a most comical effect upon his expansive person. He greeted Montague with his usual effusiveness. "How do you do, Mr. Montague how do you do?" he said.
Her mother had always held Ollie's beauty a greater asset than mental graces, and this early appraisement of it at its trading value had made Ollie a bit vain and ambitious to mate above her family. Isom Chase had held out to her all the allurements of which she had dreamed, and she had married him for his money.
He jumped for the table and grabbed it, and then he made for the gun. I told Joe to stop him, and Joe tried. But he was too late. The rest of it happened just like Joe's already told you." Ollie's head drooped forward wearily, and her hands lay passively in her lap. It seemed that she considered the story concluded, but Hammer was not of that mind.
And now, in her deeper life, the young woman felt a curious sense of shame, as she saw how trivial were the things that had influenced her to become Ollie's promised wife. She blushed, as she recalled the motives that had sent her to the shepherd with the request that he teach her to be a fine lady.
He started in his place. He recognized it instantly as the most feared of all the wild things in the mountain wilderness a panther. He saw it sniff the footprints on the trail Ollie's footprints. He saw it pause and crouch as it caught sight of the man on the rock. Instantly wild and unwelcome thoughts burned within the strong man's brain. The woodsman knew why that thing had come.
He held up his hand solemnly while the clerk administered the oath, then took his place in the witness-chair. Ollie's face was the first one that his eyes found in the crowd. It seemed as if a strong light had been focused upon it, leaving the rest of the house in gloom. The shrinking appeal which lay in her eyes moved him to pity.
But he was not giving this matter much thought as he emptied the swill-pails to the chortling hogs. He was thinking about the red in Ollie's cheeks, like the breast of a bright bird seen through the leaves, and of her quick flight up the path. It was a new Ollie that he had discovered that morning, one unknown and unspoken to before that day. But why had her face grown red that way, he wondered?
Then, with shirt and trousers on, he drew the quilt from his bed, took his pillow under his arm, and opened the door into the hall which divided the house from end to end. The moon was shining in through the double window in the end toward Ollie's room; it lay on the white floor, almost as bright as the sun. Within five feet of that splash of moonlight Joe spread his quilt.
"A man's wife ought to share his business secrets, according to my way of lookin' at it; she's got a right to know what's going on. Well, I tell you that chap talked up to me like a man!" Isom smacked his lips over the recollection. The promise of it was sweet to his taste. Ollie's heart stirred a little.
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