And she dares come down here and
sneak her way into honest people's houses! The gall of her!"
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"Looker here, girl!" exclaimed Cap'n Ira sternly. Putting his hand
upon Ida May's shoulder, he forced her down into her chair again.
His own eyes gleamed angrily, and his countenance expressed his
wrath. "What was you told on coming here? Didn't you promise to keep
a taut line on all that foolishness? I won't stand for it. No,
Prudence!" he exclaimed, as his wife tried to interfere. "I won't
stand for it. She must either keep away from that business, or I'll
put her right out of the house. Leastways, it being night, I'll send
her to her room."
"Do you think you can boss me like that?" cried Ida May hotly, so
angry herself that she forgot her fear of him. "I'm not your slave,
nor your hired help, like that creature." She pointed scornfully at
Sheila. "And you'll just listen to something I've got to say. If you
don't, I'll go out to-morrow and tell everybody in this hick town.
I'll hire a hall to tell 'em in!"
"Won't--won't you be good, deary?" begged Prudence, before her
husband could make any rejoinder to this defiance. "You know you
promised Elder Minnett you would be if we let you come here.
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