13/39 "I'll hold you against the world, Ettie, right here where we are!" "Why should we not leave together ?" "No, Ettie, I can't leave here." "But why ?" "I'd never hold my head up again if I felt that I had been driven out. You've been here too short a time. You don't know McGinty and his Scowrers." "No, I don't know them, and I don't fear them, and I don't believe in them!" said McMurdo. |