“She was on the floor there before him, her face upraised to his”
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I THE HOUSE THAT HE AND EMMY BUILT
“He’d be better off,” said Mrs. Schwalm, referring to the possible death of old Liebereich.
“You don’t mean you’d be?” grinned Hermann Schlimm.
He had drifted into Mrs. Krantz’s kitchen, among the women, after the funeral. No one gave him any attention.
Old Liebereich’s wife had just been buried, and they were met to pay Mrs. Krantz their respects. She had been the “next-door neighbor” through Mrs. Liebereich’s illness.
There was some strawberry preserve presently, and some “field tea.”
Then Mrs. Krantz said to Mrs. Schwalm: