Yet if I had of told 'em I would of felt
sneakinger yet fur giving Miss Hampton away.
I never got into a mix up that-a-way betwixt my
conscience and my duty but what it made me feel
awful uncomfortable. So I guessed I would light
out from there. They wasn't never no kinder,
better people than them Davises, either. They
was so pleased with my bringing Bud home the night
he was shot they would of jest natcherally give
me half their farm if I had of ast them fur it. They
wanted me to stay there--they didn't say fur how
long, and I guess they didn't give a dern. But I
was in a sweat to ketch up with Doctor Kirby
agin.
CHAPTER XV
I made purty good time, and in a couple of
days I was in Atlanta. I knowed the doctor
must of gone back into some branch of the
medicine game--the bottles told me that. I
knowed it must be something that he needed some
special kind of bottles fur, too, or he wouldn't
of had them shipped all that distance, but would of
bought them nearer. I seen I was a dern fool fur
rushing off and not inquiring what kind of bottles,
so I could trace what he was into easier.
It's hard work looking fur a man in a good-sized
town. I hung around hotel lobbies and places till
I was tired of it, thinking he might come in. And
I looked through all the office buildings and read
all the advertisements in the papers.
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