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"I'm not comin' home for no damn darkie!"

"She's leaving What'll I do without her?"

"Fetch for yourself, et down on my knees to stop her"

"But she's like a family member," Mrs Teece moaned

"Don't shout! I won't have you blubberin' in public this way about no goddamn--"

His wife's s her, 'Lucinda,' I said, 'you stay on and I raise your pay, and you get two nights off a week, if you want,' but she just looked set! I never seen her so set, and I said, 'Don't you love o because that's the way it was, is all She cleaned the house and dusted it and put luncheon on the table and then she went to the parlor door and--and stood there with two bundles, one by each foot, and shook my hand and said, 'Good-by, Mrs Teece' And she went out the door And there was her luncheon on the table, and all of us too upset to even eat it It's still there now, I know; last ti cold"

Teece alet the hell hoht of yourself!"

"But, Pa"

He strode away into the hot dimness of the store He came back out a few seconds later with a silver pistol in his hand

His as gone

The river flowed black between the buildings, with a rustle and a creak and a constant whispering shuffle It was a very quiet thing, with a great certainty to it; no laughter, no wildness, just a steady, decided, and ceaseless flow

Teece sat on the edge of his hardwood chair "If one of 'ehs, by Christ, I'll kill 'em"

The men waited

The river passed quietly in the dreamful noon

"Looks like you goin' to have to hoe your own turnips, Sam," Grandpa chuckled