5/72 He thanked me for my kindness, and said some real nice things--but he's gone." "Tut! tut! Dear, dear! Where's he gone to? I suppose likely I ought to have expected it, and perhaps, if he is goin' to work for that cousin of his and against me, it's best that he shouldn't stay here; but I'll miss him awful--a good deal more'n I miss the money he's paid me, and the land knows I need that. I can't understand why he acted the way he did last night. It don't seem like him at all." "Humph! I should say it didn't. |