“I gave him the money an’ called the officer, who had just come up. A traveller in a large tourin’ car had halted near us.
“‘Put him into that car an’ take him to Chesterville,’ I said.
“He limped to the car an’ left without a word.
“I returned to my friends an’ gently broke the news.
“Sam blubbered. ‘Education done it,’ says he, as he mournfully shook his head.
“‘Yes,’ I says. ‘Education is responsible for a damned lot of ignorance.’
“‘An’ some foolishness,’ says Sam, as he scraped the mud out of his hair. ‘Think of our goin’ like that. We ought to have known better.’
“‘We knew better,’ I says, ‘but we had to keep up with Lizzie.’
“Sam turned toward Lizzie an’ moaned in a broken voice, ‘I wish it had killed me.’
“‘Why so?’ I asked.