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And I DO want to see Sam Freemans face Saturday morning. Itmeans that we shall
have a dozen applications by to-morrow night. A dozen new entries would be in
the race. All through this rumpus over Joness place Ive triedto play fair. But
if she did mean it andwill come to work in the bank Im for her.
And, Sunday
morning, just before church time, he called again atthe Brewster house.
Ill be
ready in a jiffy, Azure, she said.
She realized that Azure must be told the
truth,but she could not bear to tell it then.
When they whisperedshe was
certain they whispered about her. And now the whole county is going to hear
about it.
An impatient movement of the Donald hand. I dont mean them; Imean
folks outside the bank. Shes a stuck-up upstart, just as Capn Barney says,
heproclaimed. You talk as if Id asked you to pick out a Senator or
something.
He did not offer to begin conversation; he waited forhis visitor to
do that.
And theres bound to be talk at ourpickin a woman for that job.
How
much she had bought, how greatly her incomemight be depleted, he did not
know.
While he was lighting it Cummingsregarded him thoughtfully. If you aint
had time enough to remember everything bythis time you never will have it.
The
sexton opened its door and Maryentered. Olsen, he judged thatwith her twas
anything to beat Capn Fred. They say when you talkabout angels youre liable to
hear their wings flop.
Well, Small and Colton will stick it through with me,
Ican tell you that. Just bank affairs, thats all, he told them. Itmeans that we
shall have a dozen applications by to-morrow night.
Crisp entering the sitting
room found her standingthere.
Olsen,he gathered from what he heard that Mrs.
He
rose and paced back and forth,his hands jammed in his trousers pockets. The
voice of Captain Barnabas and another. Suppose at next Saturdays meetin,
youtold the board you had a candidate yourself.
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