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"But you'll sleep there to-night, I suppose?" asked Gildart, with more anxiety than the subject seemed to warrant. "Ay, no doubt o' that, for Mrs G and Tottie left this mornin', trustin' to my comin' down in the evenin'; but I can't get before nine o'clock." "Well, good-day to you," said Gildart; "I hope you'll enjoy yourself at Cove."
"Dead an' gone," he repeated, as he swayed to and fro, and the table quivered in his grasp. Presently, however, as though arrested by a thought, he peered out of the doorway towards Juniper Bend. "That hawk seen him it seen him. He's comin', I know it, an' I'll git him plumb." He had the mystery and imagination of the mountain-dweller.
But Simmie and John Fryin' Pan scouted along behind and Simmie rode in ahead near town to tell me Laramie was comin'. God! He was a sight when he rode into this barn. He tumbled off his horse right there" McAlpin pointed to a spot where fresh straw had been sprinkled "just like a dead man. I helped carry him upstairs," he whispered. "I'll take y' to him.
"Oh! little you know, grandfather dear," replied Shibby, "that we've done wid both of them for ever." "Shibby, God bless you, achora," he returned; "but the ould man's lips can spake nothing now but the truth; an' my blessin' an' my wish, comin' from the Almighty as they do, won't pass away like common words."
"Vayther'll be at the crooked post, tother zide o' telling-house.* Her coodn't lave 'ouze by raison of the Chirstmas bakkon comin' on, and zome o' the cider welted." * The "telling-houses" on the moor are rude cots where the shepherds meet to "tell" their sheep at the end of the pasturing season.
"Then county court days, goin' to county court, an' comin' from county court, sech passels an' passels o' folks! I wisht we-uns hed it afore the jury o' view kem, so we-uns mought view the jury o' view." "It's along o' the jury o' view ez we-uns will git the road, ef we do git it," the young man said cautiously.
"But my young friend here Now, now!" he remonstrated as the highly excited young man took up his winnings, added them to the money which he held in reserve in his left hand, and placed the whole amount upon the table. "Now you're a comin' it purty strong! Go easy, young feller, and give a old man with only one eye and a game leg a chance.
"'Yes, he comed, Jake said, 'two or three weeks after Miss Dory comed home from Georgy, whar she was visitin' her kin. Mandy Ann tole me 'bout him, how he walked an' talked to Miss Dory, till when he went away her face was white as the gown she put on when she hearn he was comin'. You see, Mandy Ann was on de boat wid him, an' tole her.
Well, one day, real suddent, when the plant wasn't thinkin' of any storm comin', a little wind riz up.
"No, Doc but," Tillie could hardly get her breath to speak, "pop's goin' to burn up 'Last Days of Pompeii'; it's Miss Margaret's, and he thinks it's yourn; come in and take it, Doc PLEASE and give it back to Miss Margaret, won't you?" "Sure!" The doctor was out of his buggy at her side in an instant. "Oh!" breathed Tillie, "here's pop comin' with the book!" "See me fix him!" chuckled the doctor.