THE SPORT OF THE GODS
once aroused. "Oh, no, not you, Kitty," she said.
Then for the first time Joe spoke: "You'd just as well tell Kitty now, ma, for she's got to come across it anyhow."
"What you know about it? Whaih you been to?"
"I've been out huntin' work. I've been to Jones's bahbah shop an' to the Continental Hotel." His light-brown face turned brick red with anger and shame at the memory of it. "I don't think I'll try any more."
Kitty was gazing with wide and saddening eyes at her mother.
"Were they mean to you too, ma?" she asked breathlessly.
"Mean? Oh Kitty! Kitty! you don't know what it was like. It nigh killed me. Thaih was plenty of houses an' owned by people I've knowed fu' yeahs, but not one of 'em wanted to rent to me. Some of 'em made excuses 'bout one thing er t'other, but de res' come right straight out
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