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Well, I hope fer His sake that you ’tended to it better ’n you do to ourn.

I know I done what He told me! That’s all I know—an’ all I want to know—on this earth!

[Despairingly]

I reckon that’s enough fer any of us. But I would like to know what happened to Sid. I don’t feel that I can ever close my eyes in sleep er death tell I find out.

[Starts violently]

If he’s in that patch o’ woods where Andy left him, it’s too late to find him! The river’s all over everything! Look!

[He opens the door and points toward it.]

Oh! Is that what’s a-makin’ the noise?

Yeh, it’s a-sweepin’ everything afore it!

[, and go outside and stand gazing in wonder at the flood.]