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"Tom's just on the point of telling us what really happened to him last night," smiled Darry. "Humph!" grunted Reade, walking briskly away. "I can tell what's going to happen to 'em all on some other nights," whispered Bert Dodge in his friend's ear.
"Then, Margaret," said I at last, "is there no place where you can go to hear about the things in the Bible?" "No, missis; I never goes." "And does not anybody, except Darry when he goes with the carriage?" "Can't, Miss Daisy; it's miles and miles; and no place for niggers neither." "Can you read the Bible, Margaret?" "Guess not, missis; we's too stupid; aint good for coloured folks to read."
On that especial day the services of both had been required. They had arranged to give their full time, and Bart noted that never were there more industrious and enthusiastic colleagues. There was the sound of active hammering as Bart entered the office, which Darry suspended long enough to remark: "How's that for the audience?"
My friend Darry, at the stables of Magnolia, my friend Maria, in the kitchen of the great house, the other sable and sober faces that came around theirs in memory's grouping, they were not educated nor polished nor elegant. Yet well I knew, that having owned Christ before me, He would own them before the angels of heaven; and what would they be in that day!
"Good old Darry!" chuckled Wolgast, and, though he did not like to work Darrin too hard at the outset, yet it was also worth while to shake the Army nerve as much as possible. So Wolgast signaled quarterback to send the ball once more by Midshipman Dave. Another seven yards was gained by Darrin. The West Point men were gasping, more from chagrin than from actual physical strain.
Darry stood ready to help me to dismount; but it was too pleasant. I went on to the avenue. Just as I turned there, I caught, as it seemed to me, a glimpse of two ladies, coming towards me from the house. Involuntarily I gave a sharper pull at the bridle, and I suppose touched the pony's shoulder with the switch Darry had put into my hand.
"And base things of this world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are." I finished my reading at last, amid the hush of my listening audience. Then Maria called upon Darry to pray, and we all kneeled down.
But Dick's eyes were not quite as keen as they had been, and Darry, once he had the general direction, outstripped his chum in the race. Once away from the blazing fire of oil-soaked wood, however, the boys found themselves at a disadvantage in the woods. At last Darry stopped, listening. Then, hearing sounds, he wheeled, dashing at a figure.
Dere's Darry, and Pete Pete, he say de meetin' de oder night war 'bout de best meetin' he eber 'tended; he wouldn't miss it for not'ing in de world; he's sure; and dere's ole 'Lize; and de two Jems no, dere's tree Jems dat is ser'ous; and Stark, and Carl, and Sharlim " "Sharlim?" said I, not knowing that this was the Caffir for Charlemagne. "Sharlim," Maria repeated.
"I don't like to hear the officers of the Army and Navy scoffed at as a lot of idling, time-wasting dandies," Darry asserted. "And I don't like to be accused of liking dirt on my clothes, just because I am going to be a civil engineer," Tom explained in a milder voice. An ideal bit of green forest, at the edge of a limpid lake, appealed to Dick & Co. as the noon stopping place.
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