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but i'll not be allowing roc to telegraph them to
ANY ONE ELSE BUT ME"
Tlis wife paused in her bread-slicing, emphasizing her words with the point of the knife on the red-covered table. "Well gel it," she cried gallantly. " f( iourse we will, Andy DdcMann. Isn't Honey-Gal going to college on the strength of thai job I Aren'1 we going to telegraph a porch on the house and a oew roof on the ell .' Why. we've just goi to gel it. that 's all. Maybe the Letter Ml come this wry afternoon. I 've Lr<>t a t'<i«'ling in my bon<
*• h \ rheumatism, I 'II wager,91 laughed Andy. "Donl fret, Susie; everj thing alwaj a comes <>nt all right,
yon know, in the end. And. sa\ .
rustle with thai grub, will yon. old ladj ; l goi t * take the car down the Line this afternoon. "
'Thru I [one} < Lai and 1 'II go with
yon. far as the station, and watch the
I lastern come in. " Susie se1 the
plates down stubbornly and drew up
the chairs. "Sit down. deal', and
Hut just you mark my words. Something is going to happen, sure as you know." r.ut her radiant optimism did not warn her just what the something was to be.
The noon Eastern, screamii the rails an hour Later, paused a whiff
or two of engine smoke at the tiny. wooden shack of Burton's Mend. As ii coughed pompously away again, a bored passenger or two, glancing up from stalo novels, caughl a glimps quivering, rebellious lips and stormy blue eyes. Then Susie thrust the
letter hastily into an apn-n p. and w iped away visible *
appointment <>n Honey-Gal's tlutT of hair. Andy, chug-chugging laboriously toward them a moment 1. along the still vibrant rails, brought his handcar to a stop beside his
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