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'Specks de darkies got to fight. I'll fight, Massa Tom, if you say so. Yes, I do. I stay wid you, I will sho'. "Old Martha happened to hear this, and broke forth: "'Well, well, Massa Tom, I's sorry you is gwine to de wah agin. But it all right. I tells you dat de good Laud save you up for some good. I jes' know he do it all right.
You bet, we got up steam pretty quickly. When we got on board we reached for our rifles, and then felt safe. "The boat was then making straight for us, and it appeared to be crowded with darkies. We had been off the island for four days, and had not seen the sight of a native. I knew there were plenty, and the fact that they had kept away had made me a bit suspicious.
Dumps and Tot and the three little darkies gravely nodded their heads in assent. "Den jes go an' tell yer pa so," said the old man. "An', anyway, yer'll hatter be gwine, caze hit's gittin' dark." The little folks walked off slowly towards the house, and presently Dumps said,
"While I was considering the case, in came the master of the mansion, a thin, stooped, tired-looking little fellow, 'Sam, he told us, was his name; then proceeded to narrate how he had found the body, and knew the uniform, and was kind and tender with it because of its dress, 'for you see, sah, we darkies is all Union folks'; how he had brought it up in the night, for fear of his Secesh master, and made a coffin for it, and buried it decently.
I knows de good Lawd done fergib me, en I hope ter meet you bofe in glory. I sees de good angels waitin' fer me up yander, wid a long w'ite robe en a starry crown, en I'm on my way ter jine 'em. En so de cunjuh man died, en Pete en Primus went back ter de plantation. "De darkies all made a great 'miration w'en Primus come back.
There, on the yellow back before him, reaching from shoulder to shoulder, was tattooed the likeness of a great human eye! Everyone saw it now. To some the Northern darkies it meant nothing. But to the old-school Southern negroes it meant mystery magic death. It was the sign of the Voodoo! Several of the more superstitious onlookers retreated in poor order, their teeth chattering.
What made you take those two darkies along with you? I should have thought you would have got along better by yourself." "We couldn't very well leave them," Vincent said; "the boy has been with me all through the wars, and is as true as steel. Old Chloe was Lucy's nurse, and would have broken her heart had she been left behind." "They are faithful creatures when they are well treated.
Superb equipages mingled in democratic confusion with carts and wagons; the broken-winded nag and spavined crowbait veterans at the bugle call! pricked up their ears and kicked up their heels like colts in pasture, while the delighted darkies thumped their bony shanks to encourage this brief rejuvenescence.
Nor was I surprised to see that all seemed somewhat to marvel at our manner of advent, though I knew that Edouard, through his field-glasses, had recognized both my boat and myself long before we made the last curve and came gently in to the wharf where the grinning darkies could catch our line.
A hot appeal flashed in Ronador's eyes and eloquently again he fell to pleading. But Diane had caught the clatter of the music-machine up the road where Philip was good-humoredly unwinding the hullabaloo for a crowd of gleeful young darkies, and suddenly she turned very white and stern. "No! No!" she said. "It must be as I said."
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