12/30 They are not precisely amiable people, even amongst themselves. They would quarrel and shoot each other to pieces long before they got here." "But they worked in a company once." "Never for seven miles. Five would see them all dead." She struck the bench again. "Oh, you laugh at me! You make a joke of your own life and death, and laugh at everything! Have five years of Plattville taught you to do that ?" "I laugh only at taking the poor Cross-Roaders too seriously. |