[The Valley of the Moon by Jack London]@TWC D-Link bookThe Valley of the Moon CHAPTER IV 27/41
Look at 'em. They're fightin' everywhere." He broke into sudden laughter, so hearty that the tears came into his eyes. "What is it ?" Saxon asked, anxious not to miss anything. "It's that dude," Billy explained between gusts.
"What did he wanta do it for? That's what gets my goat.
What'd he wanta do it for ?" There was more crashing in the brush, and two women erupted upon the scene, one in flight, the other pursuing.
Almost ere they could realize it, the little group found itself merged in the astounding conflict that covered, if not the face of creation, at least all the visible landscape of Weasel Park. The fleeing woman stumbled in rounding the end of a picnic bench, and would have been caught had she not seized Mary's arm to recover balance, and then flung Mary full into the arms of the woman who pursued.
This woman, largely built, middle-aged, and too irate to comprehend, clutched Mary's hair by one hand and lifted the other to smack her.
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