Three By Cain: Serenade, Love's Lovely Counterfeit, the Butterfly

Authors: James M. Cain

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“When she saw me she laughed, and I felt my face get hot, that she had caught me looking at her, and I hightailed it to the barn as fast as I could go. While I milked I watched, and saw her get up and walk all around, looking at my trees and my corn and my cabin, then go over to the creek and look at that and pitch a stone in. She was nineteen or twenty, kind of a medium size, with light hair, blue eyes, and a pretty shape. Her clothes were better than most mountain girls have, even if they were... dusty, like she had walked up from the state road, where the bus ran. But if she was lost and asking her way, why didn’t she say something and get it over with? And if she wasn’t, why was she carrying a suitcase? When I was through milking, it was nearly dark, and I picked up my pails, came out of the barn, and walked over. “How do you do, miss?”“Oh, hello.”“Is there something you want?”“How can I tell till I know what you’ve got?”She laughed, and I felt my face hot again, because from how she sounded and how she looked, she could have meant a whole lot more than she said.MoreLess Read More Read Less