[Pembroke by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman]@TWC D-Link bookPembroke CHAPTER VII 34/39
"What did you pay him ?" he asked of Thomas Payne. "See here, William, we all know you had nothing to do with it," Thomas cried out. "What did you pay him ?" William repeated, in a stern gasp. "It's all right." "You tell me what you paid him." Thomas Payne blushed all over his handsome boyish face.
He half whispered the amount to William, although the others knew it as well as he. William pulled out his purse, and counted out some money with trembling fingers.
"Take it, for God's sake!" said he, and Thomas Payne took it.
"We all know that you knew nothing about it," he said again.
The others chimed in with eager assent, but William gave his head a shake, as if he shook off water, and broke away from them all, and pelted up the hill with his heart so bitterly sore that it seemed as if he trod on it at every step. A voice was crying out behind him, but he never heeded.
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