"Well," I says. "I got to get on out of the rain.
Goodbye." I made to go away.
"Jason," she says.
I stopped.
"Yes?" I says. "Hurry up.
I'm getting wet."
"All right," she says. "Here." There wasn't anybody in sight.
I went back and took the money.
She still held to it. "You'll do it?" she says, looking at me from under the veil. "You promise?"
"Let go," I says. "You want somebody to come along and see us?"
She let go.
I put the money in my pocket.
"You'll do it, Jason?" she says. "I wouldn't ask you, if there was any other way."
"You dam right there's no other way," I says. "Sure I'll do it.
I said I would, didn't I?
Only you'll have to do just like I say, now."
"Yes," she says. "I will." So I told her where to be, and went to the livery stable.
I hurried and got there just as they were unhitching the hack.
I asked if they had paid for it yet and he said No and I said Mrs Compson forgot something and wanted it again, so they let me take it.
Mink was driving.
I bought him a cigar, so we drove around until it begun to get dark on the back streets where they wouldn't see him.
Then Mink said he'd have to take the team on back and so I said I'd buy him another cigar and so we drove into the lane and I went across the yard to the house.
I stopped in the hall until I could hear Mother and Uncle Maury upstairs, then I went on back to the kitchen.
She and Ben were there with Dilsey.
I said Mother wanted her and I took her into the house.
I found Uncle Maury's raincoat and put it around her and picked her up and went back to the lane and got in the hack.
I told Mink to drive to the depot.
He was afraid to pass the stable, so we had to go the back way and I saw her standing on the corner under the light and I told Mink to drive close to the walk and when I said Go on, to give the team a bat.
Then I took the raincoat off of her and held her to the window and Caddy saw her and sort of jumped forward.
"Hit 'em, Mink!" I says, and Mink gave them a cut and we went past her like a fire engine. "Now get on that train like you promised," I says. I could see her running after us through the back window. "Hit 'em again," I says. "Let's get on home."
When we turned the corner she was still running.
And so I counted the money again that night and put it away, and I didn't feel so bad.
I says I reckon that'll show you.
I reckon you'll know now that you cant beat me out of a job and get away with it.
It never occurred to me she wouldn't keep her promise and take that train.
But I didn't know much about them then; I didn't have any more sense than to believe what they said, because the next morning dam if she didn't walk right into the store, only she had sense enough to wear the veil and not speak to anybody.
It was Saturday morning, because I was at the store, and she came right on back to the desk where I was, walking fast.
"Liar," she says. "Liar."
"Are you crazy?" I says. "What do you mean? coming in here like this?" She started in, but I shut her off. I says, "You already cost me one job; do you want me to lose this one too?
If you've got anything to say to me, I'll meet you somewhere after dark.
What have you got to say to me?" I says. "Didn't I do everything I said?
I said see her a minute, didn't I? Well, didn't you?"
She just stood there looking at me, shaking like an ague-fit, her hands clenched and kind of jerking. "I did just what I said I would," I says.
"You're the one that lied.
You promised to take that train.
Didn't you?
Didn't you promise?
If you think you can get that money back, just try it," I says.
"If it'd been a thousand dollars, you'd still owe me after the risk I took.
And if I see or hear you're still in town after number 17 runs," I says, "I'll tell Mother and Uncle Maury. Then hold your breath until you see her again."