I know what youre up to down there, she said. It
will cost you a good deal, Elizabeth, he said evasively.
But within two months he moaned bitterly his
unwetted thirst.
Theres her full name, age, place of birth, and so
on, shesaid, giving him a scrawled envelope.
But he tired very quickly of his new
love.
I curse the day Iwas given life by that
bloodthirsty Monster up above .
Currant jelly where a face was, the chin shot
off.
He pronged her larded ribs with scooped fingers. Do
their guts or their brains comespilling out? The doctor gave up entiremornings to
the treatment of Gants disease. He used to give the barman a bonus toget up
early.
With burning sidelong face he looked quickly up at
Gant, twistinghis convulsive neck. They say he stolethe formula from old mountain
woman. The moon stood already, like its own phantom, in the clear washedskies of
evening. But Eliza was in splendid condition now to ponder upon the death
ofothers.
When the purple canopy of dawn had been reft
asunder by the rays ofthe invading sun.
All This WeekGus Nolan and His Georgia
Peaches.
Eugeneremembered the day, years before, when he
went proudly with hisfather to the polls. In summer, a tallspire blown in blue
sheets of spray.
His life was theshadow of a shadow, a play within a
play. Waited to marry her when that rich young Cuban died, so they couldtake
honeymoon to Havana.
The boyspluttered idiotically with
laughter.
Helen came back into the house with an angry
perturbed face. You get his purse, son, and any papers he may have, she directed.
They turned down Spring Street by the Baptist Church. Sentinelled just beyond the
wooden doors, the angel leered vacantlydown.
Faro coughed and slidforward slowly upon the
floor.
The saloons had been closed for years:the town had
been one of the first to vote on local option. He pronged her larded ribs with
scooped fingers.