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meeting that made him blush. ana he
blushed, not for himself, but for her.
and your meeting with her last
night" Louisa added after Il pause.
who told you about that?" Sim ask.
ed inconSidcratcly, thus admitting the
truth Of the charge.
Then you did meet hcr?" Louisa
said.
Yes. but it was not my fault. Who
told yuu?'
1T doesn't matter who told me. Al.
though YOU say you have never had a
secret from me, | am certain you
would never have been the one TO tell
me that"
you're mistaken thar. Louecsy. Thar
amt no reason on earth why | should
not "a told YOU an I'd a done it. Moth
in happened at that mcetin. so far as
Pm concerned, that I'd be ashamed to
tell to the whole world"
Not even our hanging over the
fence and making love TO Mary Mann?"
IL never done it. LourcSy. an any.
body that went an told YOU any SIGH Il
thing told YOU a pint blank lie. | new
I er mad love to nobody in all my life
but YOU"
That will do for YOU to tell, but you
can't fool me. If you were not making
love to Mary Mann last night. why
were you with herr"
IL was jest passin along the street,
an She called to me"
And you stoppcdY'
"Of course. What else could | do?"
Nothing but stop and make love to
her"
IL tell you | never done any Eich a
thing as make love to her. You ask
her If | did"
Mrs. Banks tossed her head disdain
fully.
I'll be apt to ask any coma such Il
thing as that. and that woman in par.
ticular.'
"Waal, you needn't. then. But ii was
jest like ! say. never dreamed Of
maxim love to her"
But YOU stopped there with hcl and
hung over The fence n talked to
herr"
Id, s'pose did. l couldn't help
myself. | couldn't jest walk on an leave
her Whit she was talkin. could ~"
"Crrta. y not when her talk was SO
sweet and Interesting. You must have
round 1t real pleasant to have her as
sure YOU that didn't love you. but
that she knew some woman who did"
II didn't find it pleasant, II If | had
wouldn't n done the way | did"
"Wou!dnt have Staid TO listen to
hcrT'
Il wouldn't have let OH that | didn't
understand what she meant an diScour.
aged her ever way ! could"
by hanging over the fence and talk.
Ing back to her."
"lf ] did hang over the fence an talk
back To her. | never said nothin out OF
the way an Tothin to be ashamed OF.
nary Il wuri.'
Some people haven't II very keen
sense OF shame"
Sim paused for n momcn Then he
said very sobcrly:
"LouccSy. YOU don't love me. If Won
ana. YOU wouldn't never hclicvc the lies
somebody's gone an told YOU when |
tell you they are lies. 4 woman Tint
ioN"S hcr man amt never II goin Ia be.
licvc some old long tungu"d tattlrr ms
az III him. It's Il gospel truth. if ever |
spoke II in my life. when | say | npv.
er made low" 10 Mary Mann, nm ia
swear to ii on n stack of Bibles q hun
dr"d feet high. You amt got no right
to accuse IN" Of any Sicl, Il thing"
"Hut YOU have Il right to accuse MI,
Of something just rs bad?"
i amt never accused YOU OF nothin
loucrSy. an you know it,"
Not exactly in so many words, pcl
maps. bnt you have minated it pretty
plainly"
ME intimatcd that YOU made love 10
some other man besides mc?"
something like that. You rcmcm
per- ] suppose, what you said about
that notc!"
Il never said an | never meant that
you loved somebody else"
~ know what you think"
'lf | thought sich Il thing as thar.
would ! "A told Mary Mann yisteddy
that she was allyn when she said wbot
she did? An last night. when lin
Thorn limited at the same thing do
you know what | done to him? lis,
knocked him down plumb rat on his
back, an If they hadn't IA hrld me ld
a stamped the very daylighis ou,cu
him"
Louisa looked w. a surprised ana
panied expression on her face.
"Did jim Thorn dare to say such n
thlnS as that of mcI" she cried.
lie did," Sim replied. and. feeling
sure OF her gratitude at least, he added
"But he amt never goin to say 4, no
more. ] bet. ] done settled him for
that"
Yes" she said; but you've gone and
set everybody else to talking. wish
you had let jim Thorn alone"
Sim was amazed, and the look on his
face showed 1t.
why, my land. Loucesy," he OK.
claimed, 'you amt amin TO say | done
wrong In knockin Jim Thorn down.
are your"
You had better not have done f."
she replied, land | wish you hadn't"
WAL, I'll be blamed! Wby. Pan
Sampson an Hicks an jason an all the
rest, they all lowed l done lest right.
an ever one Of 'em said ho'd a. done
Jest Ike l did II he'd "a been In my :