Unsolicited Writings

Abe will hear of it in anycase: the question is merely from whom.
And, within five or ten minutes, silenceutter and complete. I was a young man
thenand have been an old man since.
If we hadwaited, the man would have lived.
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And, after a while, It is a case where the lawfails us.
South of the ditch, the meadow stretched away, mamillated withhaystacks.
His numerous exercises in Latin verse-making at least amusedhimself.
And his father tried tomake up to his two young sons for the shortcomings of their
home.
If he was too unjust or arbitrary, hewas met with grumbling obstruction or sullen
resistance.
He enjoys all the rights and privileges of others.
The man who had started to run was still following them, shouting. A tall, gawky
youthburst into a guffaw which ceased abruptly in the general silence;he reddened.
Seeing Abe, he broke into a sort of gallop to intercepthim. A curtainmoved in the
window; and behind the pane trembled a leonine head.
As he heard the rumble of the buggy on the culvert, he stopped andturned.
Her face held the same expression ofa veiled reticence which he had seen in the
doctor and Mary.
The little horse broke into a trot and, at a second blow from thewhip, into a gallop.
Abe sat and pondered, resenting the fact that this tale should beintruded on his
mood. He had meant to do what, in his weariness, seemed fulfilment of hisdesires. I
wanted to see the man punished, Ruth cried in despair.
Abe, said the doctor after a while, I want to tell yousomething.
Mycolleague had a more robust conscience.
The doctor smiled at her from where he sat, his right foot drawn upon his left knee.
A burst of laughteranswered him, sounding weirdly through the night. A quarter of an
hour later they were gliding north along thehighway, in silence.
At the house Ruth came down the steps as the car came to a stop.
The doctor shrugged a shoulder and raised a hand from the wheel. Ruth was tense,
tears streaming down her cheeks.
There were further searchings, painfully probing; but all led tothe same result.
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And, after a while, It is a case where the lawfails us. She is the only person in
the worldwho has both the right and the duty to tell him.