THE FIRST ACT
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The R. F. D.
It’s his wife. [Joe and the Priest rise astonished.] Sure! I got her outside in the buckboard an’ she’s madder’n hell because Tony didn’t meet her. She’s some girl, too. I never heard the beat!. Lands a girl like that an’ don’t even take the trouble to——— [The other two are already at the windows.]
Joe
Where’d you find her?
The R. F. D.
I finds her pacin’ up and down the platform an’ I gives her a lift. I sure do hate to see a good-lookin’ girl cry—an’ she sure was cryin’. I reckoned Tony couldn’t get the Ford started so———
Father McKee
He went down all right. I wonder what happened to him?
Joe
He must have took the short cut.
Father McKee
Didn’t you pass him?
Joe
I knew I ought to have went instead.
