Chapter 1. Potter‘s Clay
_ CHAPTER I. POTTER‘S CLAY
Scipio moved about the room uncertainly. It was characteristic of him. Nature had given him an expression that suggested bewilderment, and, somehow, this expression had got into his movements.
He was swabbing the floor with a rag mop； a voluntary task, undertaken to relieve his wife, who was lounging over the glowing cookstove, reading a cheap story book. Once or twice he paused in his labors, and his mild, questioning blue eyes sought the woman‘s intent face. His stubby, work-soiled fingers would rake their way through his straw-colored hair, which grew sparsely and defiantly, standing out at every possible unnatural angle, and the mop would again flap into the muddy water, and continue its process of smearing the rough boarded floor.
Now and again the sound of children‘s voices floated in through the open doorway, and at each shrill piping the man‘s pale eyes lit into a smile of parental tenderness. But his work went on

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