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"I ain't sayin' much," said Madge, "because she's different from me, has had more chance, is better dressed, knows more from books an' so on, an' it might seem like I was plumb jealous of her. Maybe I am, too. But, dellaw! Her with her pollysol! When she opened it that way at me I thought it war a gun an' she war goin' to fire!
She had formed a plan, deep in her mind, and had sought the mountain-girl with the skilful scheme. "Then Mr. Frank is goin' to be ruined!" Madge exclaimed, dejectedly. "Not unless you wish it," Barbara replied, looking straight into her eyes. "Dellaw! Me wish that? Just you tell me what you mean!" The bluegrass girl stood looking at the mountain maiden with appraising eye for a few seconds.
The Colonel left the room, bound for the telegraph-office, just before a shrill scream came from the corridor, without, startling Layson greatly. "Oh, dellaw!" the frightened voice said. "Le' me out! Le' me out!"
"A machine to carry you upstairs and save you the work of climbing." "Dellaw!" exclaimed the girl, not yet entirely calm. "As if I couldn't walk! Thought we was blowed up by another dynamighty bomb!" Miss Alathea entered hurriedly, looking about the room, in evident distress. At sight of Madge she gave a great sigh of relief. "My dear, I'm so sorry you were frightened!"
"Or bite," he added. "Bite! Dellaw!" the girl exclaimed, still more amazed. How little she had learned of royalty up in the mountains! The aged negro threw the door wide open. "Go in, honey, now; go in," he said. "I'm skeered!" she said, and tiptoed to the stable door. She peered in cautiously. Then she turned and faced him with much-puzzled eyes. "I don't see nothin' but a hoss," she said.
"T'other day I went down where they're blastin' for th' railroad. I see 'em usin' dynamighty, down thar, an' I watched my chance an', when it come, I slipped one o' th' bombs into that game-sack. Ef you'd chanced to kick it " She was impressed. "Dynamighty bombs? Dellaw! What's dynamighty bombs?" "It's a giant powder, a million times stronger nor mine."
There is no more of that, I reckon, in the bluegrass than there is here in the mountains. Silks and satins don't make happiness, balls and garden-fetes don't make it. A girl who's sobbing in a ball gown can be quite as miserable as you would be, unhappy in your homespun." She was impatient of his moralizing. "I know that," she said. "Dellaw, don't you suppose I've got some sense?
Barbara paid no attention to the small, brown hand, but, instead, opened her parasol almost in the face of the astonished mountain-girl, who jumped back, startled. "Oh, very well," said Barbara to Frank. Madge turned to him, the softness of the mood engendered by her talk with the Colonel and Miss 'Lethe all gone, now. Her face was flushed with anger. "Dellaw!" said she.
Colonel, I'll have a race with you, sometime." "What, you ride?" said the delighted Colonel. "Ride! Dellaw!" said she, with, now, unembarrassed animation. The subject was that one, of all, which made her most quickly forget everything beside. "Why, me and my pony takes to racin' like a pig to carrots.
You'd better think it over and turn back." "I'll not," said she. As he walked disgustedly away she watched him curiously. "I wonder why he is so sot on makin' me go back?" she mused. "Maybe he air right in sayin' that I won't be welcome; but I'll do my duty, just th' same!" Neb came out from the stable. The girl saw him with delight. "Dellaw!" she said. "How tired I be! Howdy, Uncle Neb; howdy!"