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But I— [She looks at him dumbly.]

They ain’t no room fer “buts” here, Jude. If you’ve got any doubt about whose side you’d be on in a fight between me an’ your folks, you’d better give yourself the benefit of ’em.

I couldn’t never go back on my own kin!

Then that’s settled. [He turns away.] We don’t belong together.

You don’t actially think our folks are a-goin’ to start fightin’ ag’in, do you, Sid?

Not if I can keep ’em from it. But that ain’t the p’int; if they do start, I don’t want no weak sister fer a wife. If a woman ain’t fur a man she’s purty apt to be ag’in’ him. They don’t come a-settin’ on the fence.

You mean I got to—take sides ag’in’ my own folks?