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Updated: June 10, 2025
He had not told Sammy of the incident at the Lookout because he felt that the story would bring the backwoodsman into a light altogether too favorable. He thought to have the girl safely won before he left the hills; then it would not matter. That Young Matt would have really saved Ollie's life at the risk of his own there was no doubt.
But, for all his big body and great strength, he was only a boy in his sense of justice, in his hot, primitive desire to lunge out quickly and set the maladjustments of that household straight. He did not know that there was a thing as old as the desires of men at the bottom of Ollie's sorrow, nor understand the futility of chastisement in the case of Isom Chase.
Hammer brought out, with many confidential glances at the jury, the distance between Ollie's room and the kitchen; the fact that she had her door closed, that she had gone to bed heavy with weariness, and was asleep long before midnight; that she had been startled by a sound, a strange and mysterious sound for that quiet house, and had sat up in her bed listening.
He hauled the merchants' goods up from the railroad station, and moved such inhabitants of Shelbyville as once in a while made a change from one abode to another. Sim had come to Shelbyville with a plan for setting up a general livery business, in which ambition he had been encouraged by Ollie's marriage to Isom Chase, to whom he looked, remotely, for financial backing.
I tell you it's terrible, you must stay right up there." "Oh, I'm so afraid I'm so afraid!" said Ollie, coming nearer. "Go back! Go back!" commanded Greening. "If you'll only stick to it that way," thought Joe as Ollie's moans sounded in his ears. "Was it robbers is somebody hurt?" she asked. "Yes, somebody's hurt, and hurt bad," said Greening, "but you can't do no good by comin' down here.
"Missis Chase oh, Missis Chase!" called Greening. "Who's that, who's that?" came Ollie's voice, tremulous and frightened, little above a whisper, from above. "It's Sol Greening. Don't come down here, don't come down!" "What was that noise? It sounded like a gun," said Ollie, a bit nearer the head of the stairs, her words broken and disjointed.
Of course, Sol had no knowledge of what was going forward at the county farm that very afternoon, even the very hour when Joe Newbolt was sweating blood on the witness stand, If he had known, it is not likely that he would have waited until morning to spread the tale abroad. This is what it was. Ollie's lawyer was there in consultation with Uncle John Owens regarding Isom's will.
Monday morning George carried Kate's books to school for her, saw that she was started on her work in good shape, then went home, put on his old clothes, and began the fall work at Aunt Ollie's. Kate, wearing her prettiest blue dress, forgot even the dull ache in her heart, as she threw herself into the business of educating those young people. She worked as she never had before.
Isom drew all this information out of his guest at supper, and it did not require much effort to set the sap flowing. Morgan talked to Isom and looked at Ollie; he asked Joe a question, and cocked his eye on Ollie's face as if he expected to find the answer there; he pronounced shallow platitudes of philosophy aiming them at Isom, but looking at Ollie for approval or dissent.
The two girls were preparing for the night, when Sammy, who was seated on the edge of the bed, paused, with one shoe off, to ask thoughtfully, "Mandy, what is love, anyhow?" Mandy looked surprised. "I reckon you ought to know," she said with a laugh; "Ollie's been a hangin' 'round you ever since I can remember."
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