And she said, well, you had no 'auld lang syne' claim on Alex, and that if he once got started to going to Locust you'd soon have him under your thumb as you do every one else, and that would be the end of the affair for her." "As if I were an old spidah, weaving webs for everybody that comes along!" cried Lloyd, indignantly.

"She's no right to talk that way." "I think it's because she really cares so much, and not that she does it to be spiteful," said Katie.

"She hasn't a bit of pride about hiding her feeling for him.

She openly cried about it while she was talking to me." "What do you think I ought to do ?" asked Lloyd, with a troubled face.

"I like Mistah Shelby evah so much, and I'd like to be nice to him for the old doctah's sake if for no othah reason, for I'm devoted to _him_.