Jacob Kalb lingered. If Mena Illick refused to take the twins, Swartz might be compelled to leave them all there. Then Jacob could not have the house.
"You ought to be srashed!" he shouted to Sarah. "You are a bad girl. You put Albert out here."
Then Jacob began to pound on the door.
It was five minutes later when Sarah came upstairs. Her face was white and her hands shook. Yet she was laughing.
"Why don't you tell him if he don't go away you will shoot him with the gun?" demanded Louisa Ellen.
Sarah laughed hysterically.
"That was just what I did tell him," she said.