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 made ugly tracks on the clean floor, but he was too taken up with Cinder to notice.

"Do scrape off you feets, July," Mary bade him, but he didn't hear for Cinder was holding his hand, laughing up into his face, gazing at him with shining eager eyes, answering his questions with trembling lips. A flame of hot jealousy flared up in Mary's heart. Cinder had forgotten that July's lawful wedded wife was looking straight at her, watching every move she made, seeing how she held July's eyes, and how her sweet-mouthed talk pleased him. Mary's ears tingled as they heard Cinder's words, but Unex woke with a loud wail and she had to geo get the child, who had slept a long time and needed food. A bad dream must have scared him to make him cry so hard.

The shed room was stifling hot although the sun was under a heavy cloud and in spite of the lightning Mary sat close to the open window.

"You look better'n I ever seed you in my life," July declared, as free and easy as if he were a single man.

"You look good, yousef," Cinder answered him in a voice that was husky with pleasure. Lightning lit their faces and a long mutter of thunder rumbled, but Cinder, heeding none of it, stood sweet-talking July, pretending that she