So at last she laid a couple of extra hard words against us an' we keeled over, as you might say, an' toppled out of the kitchen.

We was dazed with language that was all words, an' when we come to the gate we was so stupefied that we climbed right over it, an' so weak that we fell down off the other side of it, an' Sammy all the time repeatin' 'Eliph' Hewlitt,' like a man in a dream.

By next day he was able to leave the hotel, an' he took the train, an' I ain't seen him until this day, so I guess he stuck right to that name, for fear he might meet the talkin' lady again.

I don't see how he could get the name out of his system when once Katie's ma had talked it in, anyway, for she was a great talker.

I ought to know, for I went back an' chinned with Katie as soon as I got the daze out of my head, an' the long-come short-come of it was I married Katie.
"When Sammy comes back I want to ask him if he sold out all them 'Wage of Sin' books.