"Do you know what that means, Starbuck?"
The old man puffed at his pipe, drew the blazing paper through his hand,
put out the fire, removed his pipe, studied a moment and said: "Yes. It
means that I may have to kill you."
CHAPTER VI.
HADN'T LISTENED.
Not another word was spoken, and Peters went out, turning with a sullen
look as he reached the road. For a moment he stood there and then
skulked on away, met a dog in the road and kicked at him. When Margaret
re-entered the room Jasper was walking up and down with his hands behind
him. The old man began to tell a story: "Feller down in the bottoms
owned a calf that had wool on him like a sheep; uster ter shear him
every spring, and one time he--"
"Jasper, didn't Peters say he was a comin' after you?"
"Margaret, is it possible that you've been listenin' to two men talkin'
business? Now, business is a sort of a sacred thing. A feller in the
Bible says, 'I'd like might'ly to go to yo' little dinner, but I've got
to break a yoke of steers an' you must 'skuze me.
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