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Nick Corrado 2023-08-27 19:15:49 -04:00 committed by Alex Cabal
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<p>Halt and give the countersign, says I to Willie. Dont you know this dugout? Its the birds-nest that Joe Granberry built before he married Myra Allison. What you going there for?</p>
<p>“But Willie already had the gate open. He walked up the brick walk to the steps, and I went with him. Myra was sitting in a rocking-chair on the porch, sewing. Her hair was smoothed back kind of hasty and tied in a knot. I never noticed till then that she had freckles. Joe was at one side of the porch, in his shirtsleeves, with no collar on, and no signs of a shave, trying to scrape out a hole among the brickbats and tin cans to plant a little fruit-tree in. He looked up but never said a word, and neither did Myra.</p>
<p>“Willie was sure dandy-looking in his uniform, with medals strung on his breast and his new gold-handled sword. Youd never have taken him for the little white-headed snipe that the girls used to order about and make fun of. He just stood there for a minute, looking at Myra with a peculiar little smile on his face; and then he says to her, slow, and kind of holding on to his words with his teeth:</p>
<p>“ <em>Oh, I dont know! Maybe I could if I tried!</em></p>
<p>“ <em>Oh, I dont know! Maybe I could if I tried!</em></p>
<p>“That was all that was said. Willie raised his hat, and we walked away.</p>
<p>“And, somehow, when he said that, I remembered, all of a sudden, the night of that dance and Willie brushing his hair before the looking-glass, and Myra sticking her head in the door to guy him.</p>
<p>“When we got back to Sam Houston Avenue, Willie says:</p>