"Then Luella she looked at me like a baby who has a rattle shook at
it. She sort of laughed as innocent as you please. 'Oh, I can't
do the work myself, Miss Anderson,' says she. 'I never did. Maria
HAS to do it.'
"Then I spoke out: 'Has to do it I' says I. 'Has to do it!' She
don't have to do it, either. Maria Brown has her own home and
enough to live on. She ain't beholden to you to come over here and
slave for you and kill herself.'
"Luella she jest set and stared at me for all the world like a
doll-baby that was so abused that it was comin' to life.
"'Yes,' says I, 'she's killin' herself. She's goin' to die just
the way Erastus did, and Lily, and your Aunt Abby. You're killin'
her jest as you did them. I don't know what there is about you,
but you seem to bring a curse,' says I. 'You kill everybody that
is fool enough to care anythin' about you and do for you.'
"She stared at me and she was pretty pale.
"'And Maria ain't the only one you're goin' to kill,' says I.
'You're goin' to kill Doctor Malcom before you're done with him.'
"Then a red colour came flamin' all over her face. 'I ain't goin'
to kill him, either,' says she, and she begun to cry.
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