Bisbee daily review., 1913-11-16
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smash. don't you? You look as if you'd had a death in your family"
 This was my family" half sniveled.
 But" he said. ''youll be getting married and having home of your own and forgetting all about this"
 He looked at me with his sharp eyes There's probably some nice chap in the village, ehz"
 Look here" l turned on him, eff you're talking all this nonsense to keep my mind off things. you needn't"
 I'm not" he said. I'm asking for the sake of my own mind, but we'll not bother about that now. Wed bet ter start back"
 We went back to the house and I straightened the news stand, Amanda King having taken violent toothache as a result of the excitement The Jenningses were packing to go, and Miss Summers had got a bottle of per oxide and shut herself in her room. At six o'clock Tillie beckoned to me from the door of the officers dining room and said she'd put the basket in the snow by the grape arbor. l got ready, with a heavy heart, to take it out I had forgotten all about their dinner for one thing, and l had to carry bad news.
 But Mir. Pierce had been there be fore me. l saw tracks in the fresh snow, for. praise heaven! it had showed all that week and our prints were filled up almost as fast as we made them. When l got to the shelter. house it was in a wild state of ex- citement.. Mrs. Dick, with her cheeks flushed, had gathered all her things oD the cot and was rolling them up in sheets and newspapers. But MT. Dick was sitting on the box in front of the fire with his curly hair standing every way. He had been roasting potatoes, and as l opened the door, he picked one up and poked at it to see if it was done.
 "Damn!" he said, and dropped it.
 Mrs. Dick sat on the cot rolling up pink ribbon and looked at him.
 If you want to know exactly my reason for insisting on moving tonight, III tell you" she said, paying no atten. tlon to me. It is your disposition"
 He didn't say anything. but he put his foot on the potato and smashed it.
 If I had to be shut in here with you one more day" she went on, "iG hate you"
 why the one more day?" he asked without looking up.
 But she didn't answer him. She wa: in the worst kind of a temper shC threw the ribbon down, and coming over, lifted the lid of my basket anC looked ir.
 Ham again." she exclaimed un gratefully. Thanks so much for re membering us, Minnie. I dare say oul dinner today slipped your mind!"
 'I wonder if it strikes you, Minnie, Mfr. Dick said, noticing me for the frs time, that if you and Sam hadn't beer so confounded meddling, that fellow Pierce would be washing buggies il the village livery stable where he be longs, and I'd be in one piece of prop erty that's as good as gone this min ute"
 I was in bad humor, anyhow, ant I'd had enough. stood just inside th' door and told them I'd done the bes I could, not for them, but because F. promised the old doctor, and if l' made mistakes I'd answer for them tt him if I ever met hin. in the mex world. And in the meantime I washes my hands of the whole thing, and the. might make out as best they could. was going.
 Mrs. Dick heard me through. Thel she came over and put her hand ol mine where it lay on the table.
 You're perfectly right" she said. " know how you have tried, and that tn fault is all that wretched Pierce's. Yol mustn't mind Mr. Carter, Minnie. He been in that sort of hunor all day"
 He looked at her with the most mis erable fsca l ever saw, but he didn' say anything. She sighed, the littl wretch.
 l plodded back with my empty bai ket I had only one clear thought that I wouldn't have any more tramI ing across the golf links in the snow I wanted to get back to my room an go to bed and forget
 But as came near the house ] saI  MT. Pierce come out on the iron piazza and switch on the lights. H stood there looking out into the snow and the next minute l saw why. Con ing up the hill and across the law was a shadowy line Of people, blae against the white l thought for minute that my brain had gone wrong then the first figure came into th light, and it was the bishop. He stoo at the front Of the steps and looked U at NIT. Pierce.
 "T dare say" he said. trying to loo easy, that this is sooner than you ei pected usi"
 Mr. Pierce looked down at the crow' Then he smiled. a growing smile tha ended in a grin.
 "On the contrary" he said. -1'y been expecting you for an hour C more"