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Show All the Variables & Other Love Stories 52 black night sky to clearest day, so that no one noticed when dawn came. Everyone who beheld it wept all through the night with awe. Now no one would deny that Beau Walker had a mean streak to him, and he let out with a vengeance after Jay Meeks. Confronted him right at the steps of the recruiters' office one morning while Jay waited for Melissa to appear. "I mean to beat you nearly dead," Beau Walker said. "Then do it," said Jay Meeks. And right then Beau Walker saw something in Jay Meeks that no one ever suspected in him before. Ought to reckon it scared him fairly, cause beat Jay Meeks nearly dead is what he did. "Say I love Jesus," Beau Walker commanded. "Say Jesus is my Savior." "I love Melissa Johnson!" Jay Meeks cried. "Melissa Johnson is my Savior!" Melissa Johnson is just who came to poor Jay's rescue then. She chased Beau off and told him he was no gentleman and never come back again, "I never want to see your face again, Beau Walker!" And then she gathered up all the broken pieces of Jay Meeks and took him upstairs. * After that night, you know, they had to take Beau Walker to the mental asylum. Sure. Governor Johnson didn't survive, either. He was impeached and done away with for his daughter's mischief. That's so. Any gambling man would have been smart to put his money down on Beau Walker that night. No way Jay Meeks stood any chance. Smart money was on Beau Walker, but smart money was wrong; it didn't take count of any Melissa Johnson. |