But they kept the mystery cagedbetween
them.
Scurfing a patch away from the glazed window, Gant
looked out.
Now, I wouldnt be so sure of that if I were you,
Eliza began,her lips working rapidly.
Why, Aleck, I said, I dont much expect him before
the first ofApril. Something taut snappedin her; she remembered his furtive backward
glance, and she wept. Theunpaved frozen clay fell steeply and lumpily
away.
He got her as she sank the thirdtime and swam to
shore. He was immoderately fondof fish, and he invariably choked upon a bone while
eating it. The settlement was plumed delicately with ahundred tiny fumes of
smoke.
The car paused briefly at the car-shed, in sight of
its stabledbrothers. How looked the home-earth then to Gant the Far-Wanderer? If it
ever lands on you, you bastard, youllthink it is a mules, said Gil.
He closed the door behind him and jerkily opened
three notches ofjuice. There was a warm electric smell and one of hot burnt steel.
In a moment he began to snore gently through his blubbered lips. Yes, it does look
pretty bad, she would remark. He closed the door behind him and jerkily opened three
notches ofjuice.
In the name of God, Woman, what are we coming to?
He strode across the dining-room and went up the hall.
The Square had the horrible concreteness of a
dream.
Jim Bowles died while you were gone, I reckon, said
the motorman. The earthwas spermy for him like a big woman. Her white embarrassed
smile was atonce painful and comic: tears pressed closely behind it.
Old Bowman said hell be a rich man some day. Thus
came he home, who had put out to land westward, Gant the Far-Wanderer.
He got her as she sank the thirdtime and swam to
shore.
Eliza herself would laugh shortly, and then
exclaimroughly: Get out of here!