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Thérèse knew her animal, and waited patiently for his business to unfold itself. “I reckon thar hain’t no ford hereabouts?” he asked, looking at her with a certain challenge. “Oh, no; its even difficult crossing in the flat,” she answered. “Wall, I hed calc’lated continooing on this near side. Reckon I could make it?” challenging her again to an answer.
He continued imperturbably “I ’lowed to stop here on a little matter o’ business. ’Tis some out o’ mu way; more’n I’d calc’lated. You couldn’t tell the ixact distance from here to Colfax, could you?” Thérèse rather impatiently gave him the desired information, and begged that he would disclose his business with her. “Wall,” he said, “onpleasant news ’ll keep most times tell you’re ready fur it.
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