I will join you up the brook and we'll
have a fish together. Good-bye, dearie;' and the girl flung a kiss to
him from her finger tips and was away.
A minute later The Lifter came whiffling along and joined our hero.
'Well, stranger, what do you think of the parseen?'
'I think that he is a blasphemous villian; and I wonder that God
Almighty does not send a bolt from heaven upon such a wretch.'
'But it is said that they have a good deal of patience in heaveen.
Well, I think they must or they never would suffer the Rev. Mr. Jonas
to walk the earth. I often sit a thinkeen about him; and always come
to the conclusion that he is not _sincere_.'
'Cease your knavery, fellow. What purpose can it serve to talk in
this fashion to me?'
'Well, I will. I like you, because you knocked down the bully. I
have a great likeen for the fellow's gal; but till you came she cared
best for Joe. I'd like to tell you summat of my brethreen. But say,
are you here hard and fast?'
'I fear, alas, I am.'
'What did you do; kill your man in a duel?' Roland sighed and bowed
his head.
'Then you cannot go away and peach, so I'll give you a bit of our
indoor history.
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