CHAPTER XXVIII
Young Discovers Andy
During the minutes Daddy Skinner lay grappling with death, Ebenezer Waldstricker sat in his handsome drawing room with an open Bible on his knee, talking to his wife.
"I've explained to you time and time again, Helen," said he impatiently, "why I struck her and I'm not sorry I did it."
"It seems awful, though," replied his wife, reflectively.
Waldstricker frowned into the wistful face.
"Why awful when the Bible ordered me to do it? I've given you the Master's own words to verify it. Didn't he say, 'Let the man without sin first cast a stone?'"
Mrs. Waldstricker raised her eyes to her husband's face.
"But Ebenezer—"