Of course he may have
just been getting the better of somebody in a cattle deal but I have an
awful presentiment that the Huns have broken through somewhere."
Perhaps Susan was unjust in connecting Mr. Pryor's smile with the
sinking of the Lusitania, news of which circulated an hour later when
the mail was distributed. But the Glen boys turned out that night in a
body and broke all his windows in a fine frenzy of indignation over the
Kaiser's doings.
"I do not say they did right and I do not say they did wrong," said
Susan, when she heard of it. "But I will say that I wouldn't have minded
throwing a few stones myself. One thing is certain--
Whiskers-on-the-moon said in the post office the day the news came, in
the presence of witnesses, that folks who could not stay home after they
had been warned deserved no better fate. Norman Douglas is fairly
foaming at the mouth over it all. 'If the devil doesn't get those men
who sunk the Lusitania then there is no use in there being a devil,' he
was shouting in Carter's store last night. Norman Douglas always has
believed that anybody who opposed him was on the side of the devil, but
a man like that is bound to be right once in a while. Bruce Meredith is
worrying over the babies who were drowned. And it seems he prayed for
something very special last Friday night and didn't get it, and was
feeling quite disgruntled over it.
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