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Colonel Starbottle’s Client and Other Stories

CHAPTER II
5/15

Jule Jeffcourt says that when you got religion at Louisville during the revival, you felt you had a call to write and save sinners, and you did that as your trial and probation, but that since you backslided and are worldly again, and go to parties, you just keep it up for foolin' and flirtin'! SHE ain't goin' to weaken on the man that shot her brother, just because he's got a gold mine and--a mustache!" "She takes his MONEY all the same," said Miss Sally.
"SHE don't,--her mother does.

SHE says if she was a man she'd have blood for blood!" "My!" said Miss Sally, in affected consternation.

"It's a wonder she don't apply to you to act for her." "If it was MY brother he killed, I'd challenge him quick enough," said Chet, flushing through his thin pink skin and light hair.
"Marry her, then, and that'll make you one of the family.

I reckon Miss Hilda can bear it," rejoined the young lady pertly.
"Look here, Miss Sally," said the young fellow with a boyish despair that was not without a certain pathos in its implied inferiority, "I ain't gifted like you--I ain't on yo' level no how; I can't pass yo' on the road, and so I reckon I must take yo' dust as yo' make it.

But there is one thing, Miss Sally, I want to tell you.


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