"Things have
turned over a new leaf here. For all you give, you get some
return, after this. We are going to do business in a businesslike
way, and divide even. I liked that bank account, pretty will,
Dannie. Thank you, for that. And don't think I spint all of it. I
didn't spind a hundred dollars all togither. Not the price of one
horse! But it made me so happy I could fly. Home again, and the
things I've always wanted, and nothing to fear. Oh, Dannie, you
don't know what it manes to a woman to be always afraid! My heart
is almost jumping out of my body, just with pure joy that the old
fear is gone."
"I know what it means to a mon to be afraid," said Dannie. And
vividly before him loomed the awful, distorted, dying face of
Jimmy.
Mary guessed, and her bright face clouded.
"Some day, Dannie, we must have a little talk," she said, "and
clear up a few things neither of us understand. 'Til thin we will
just farm, and be partners, and be as happy as iver we can. I
don't know as you mean to, but if you do, I warn you right now
that you need niver mintion the name of Jimmy Malone to me again,
for any reason."
Dannie left the cabin abruptly.
"Now you gone and made him mad!" reproached Tilly.
During the past winter Mary had lived with other married people
for the first time, and she had imbibed some of Mrs.
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