"Well, the Doctor did die, and he wanted to be married first, so as
to leave what little he had to Luella, but he died before the
minister could get there, and Sarah Jones died a week afterward.
"Well, that wound up everything for Luella Miller. Not another
soul in the whole town would lift a finger for her. There got to
be a sort of panic. Then she began to droop in good earnest. She
used to have to go to the store herself, for Mrs. Babbit was afraid
to let Tommy go for her, and I've seen her goin' past and stoppin'
every two or three steps to rest. Well, I stood it as long as I
could, but one day I see her comin' with her arms full and stoppin'
to lean against the Babbit fence, and I run out and took her
bundles and carried them to her house. Then I went home and never
spoke one word to her though she called after me dreadful kind of
pitiful. Well, that night I was taken sick with a chill, and I was
sick as I wanted to be for two weeks. Mrs. Babbit had seen me run
out to help Luella and she came in and told me I was goin' to die
on account of it. I didn't know whether I was or not, but I
considered I had done right by Erastus's wife.
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