Bennie and me, we don't seem to belong together.' "'He is Abner's brother,' she says, 'and I promised Abner.

I can't tell him to go.

I can't tell him to leave this house, his brother's house.' "Now, consarn it, there was another thing.

It WAS Abner's house, or had been afore he died, and now 'twas hers.

If I ever forgot that fact, which wa'n't by no means likely to happen, Bennie D.took occasions enough to remind me of it.