You must tell him to go, or else--' "She'd been lookin' at me again with that kind of queer look in her eyes, almost a hopeful look, seem's if 'twas, and yet it couldn't have been, of course.

Now she drawed a long breath.
"'I can't tell him to go, Seth,' says she.

'I promised to give him a home as long as I had one.' "I set my jaws together.

'All right,' I says; 'then I'M goin'.

Good by.' "And I went.