So Dannie lay down on the cot. He had barely touched it
when he thought of Jimmy, so he got up quietly and started home. He
had almost reached his back door when it opened, and Jimmy came
out. Dannie paused, amazed at Jimmy's wild face and staring eyes.
"Don't you begin your cursed gibberish again," cried Jimmy, at sight
of him. "I'm burning in all the tortures of fire now, and I'll
have a drink if I smash down Casey's and steal it."
Dannie jumped for him, and Jimmy evaded him and fled. Dannie
started after. He had reached the barn before he began to think.
"I depend on you," the nurse had said. "Jimmy, wait!" he called.
"Jimmy, have ye any money?" Jimmy was running along the path toward
town. Dannie stopped. He stood staring after Jimmy for a second,
and then he deliberately turned, went back, and lay down on the
cot, where the nurse expected to find him when she wanted him to
watch by the door of Mary Malone.
Chapter VII
THE APPLE OF DISCORD BECOMES A JOINTED ROD
WHAT do you think about fishing, Dannie?" asked Jimmy Malone.
There was a licht frost last nicht," said Dannie. "It begins to
look that way. I should think a week more, especially if there
should come a guid rain."
Jimmy looked disappointed. His last trip to town had ended in a
sodden week in the barn, and at Dannie's cabin. For the first time
he had carried whiskey home with him. He had insisted on Dannie
drinking with him, and wanted to fight when he would not.
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