"I think
you are on the right track now. Yes--I shouldn't
wonder."
Well, they puts this and that together, and they
agrees that whatever happened to make things hard
to explain must of happened on that day that
Prentiss McMakin met the doctor in the bar-room,
and didn't shoot him, as he had made his brags he
would. Must of happened between the time that
afternoon when Prentiss McMakin left the doctor
and the time Colonel Tom went out to see his sister
and found she had went. Must of happened some-
how through Prent McMakin.
We goes home with Colonel Tom that night. And
the next day all three of us is on our way to Athens,
Indiany, where I had seen Miss Lucy at.
CHAPTER XXIII
Fur my part, as the train kept getting further
and further north, my feelings kept getting
more and more mixed. It come to me
that I might be steering straight fur a bunch of
trouble. The feeling that sadness and melancholy
and seriousness was laying ahead of me kept me
from really enjoying them dollar-apiece meals on
the train. It was Martha that done it. All this
past and gone love story I had been hearing about
reminded me of Martha. And I was steering
straight toward her, and no way out of it. How
did I know but what that there girl might be expect-
ing fur to marry me, or something like that? Not
but what I was awful in love with her whilst we was
together.
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