“THIS DARK EARTH VALLEY.”
CHAPTER XVI.
IT wuz dretful sudden, as we count suddenness. But then we don’t know down here in this dark Earth Valley, with high mountains a towerin’ up on each side on us that we can’t see through—we can’t really tell what to call the onexpected, or the expected.
I spoze if we wuz high enough up to see the light and beauty of the Divine Plan, we shouldn’t call anything the onexpected.
But it seemed dretful sudden to us that Miss Seybert should be took down voyalent with a fever that wuz a prevailin’ round Eden Centre, and should die off the second day after the attack.
And for all the world it would seem as if havin’ waited on her through all time, and she laid out to go on a doin’ it through all eternity, old Phyllis, Victor’s mother, jest follered right on after her the next day.
Some say she took the disease a hangin’ over her bed and a waitin’ on her.