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And as he didn't git back, of course they kept on a-stayin', and had to be took care on. They wuz bright little creeters, and the very apples of their eyes. But they cost money, and they cost love, and Tom had to give it, for they lost what little property they had about this time and the feeble Grandma couldn't do much, and the Grandpa died not long after the eppisode I am about to relate.
"Coppers will play these games," you sez. All right, then; but you let me finish. Third time there was a flaw in one of the gas-brackets in the spare room. I soddered it up and I come away. Soon arterwards, a day or two as it might be, Mrs. Rummles 'ad 'er mar a-stayin' with her, and the old lady slep in that very room, and was laid up weeks!
"The trustee," she answered, "what sees as how we-uns goin' ter school gits shoes outen the school fund, I reckon 'twuz he said, or sumthin' that a-way. He's a-stayin' down thar by the Cunnel's, some-un says, so mebbe ye knows 'im. Not as I allow ter be beholden ter no one: but commencement's commencement!" "Why, Mrs. Owsley!" an accusing voice cried from the window.
Gosford and Chandler, however, remained, and Gosford continued the subject of Bartlett's widow. "What's she a-stayin' on for up there?" "Old Bartlett's left her a goodish bit." "She wur younger than he." A dead silence of some minutes. "She ain't a-goin' to take the Croft on herself," observed Gosford. "Them beasts of the squire's," replied Chandler, "fetched a goodish lot.
You know whut I've been a-stayin' at the mill fer, 'n' Steve mad 'n' mam a-jowerin' 'n' a-lookin' over hyeh fer ye night 'n' day! Y'u know whut I've jes swum over hyeh fer! Whut's the matter with ye?" Martha was not looking for a confession like this. It took away her shame at once, and the passion of it thrilled her, and left her trembling.
"Go home," the girl repeated, now in a weaker voice. "It ain't time to go home," he growled. "When kids don't know their lessons you make 'em stay in, don't you? Well, I'm a-stayin', too!" "Let me by this instant," she commanded, plucking another crumb of courage from the sheer imminence of danger. "Aw, come off yoh high airs," he leered.
He was a-stayin' at Tom's house, the furriner was, a-dickerin' fer a piece o' lan' the same piece, mebbe, that you're atter now an' Tom keeps him thar fer a week to beat him out'n a dollar, an' then won't let him pay nary a cent fer his boa'd. Now, stranger, that's Tom.
"When de war was over, my brother Frank slipped in de house where I was still a-stayin'. He tol' me us was free an' for me to come out wid de res'. 'Fore sundown dere warnt one Nigger lef' on de place. I hear tell later dat de Mistis an' de gals had to git out an' work in de fiel's to he'p gather in de crop.
"The gentleman went along the Hereford Road, he did, yesterday mornin'. He kem back, too, wiv a shuffer, an' he's a-stayin' at the Symon's Yat Hotel." Peter Vanrenen frowned, and Cynthia vanished, to be replaced by the Wall Street speculator who had "made a pyramid in Milwaukees." Whence, then, had Cynthia telephoned?
Robert Audley, whose a-stayin' at the Sun Inn, in the village; and I tells him it's all right, as I've know'd the Sun ever since I was a baby.
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