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"Yes, that's exactly what I mean. Of course it didn't happen." He gazed at her, wondering whether or not to accept her wisdom. Then upon the floor he flung the paper and trampled upon it. "If that's the case, I don't want nuthin' mo' to do with it. Come a foolin' with a man's affections thatter way. Ought to have been out yander at work half a hour ago.
"I say quit foolin', too," cried Harry, "both of you quit it; you old fool, Tom, do you really suppose he is mad enough to ride that brute of yours again at the wall?" "Mad enough! Yes, I swon he be," responded Tom; "both of you be as mad as the hull Asylum down to York. If Frank arn't mad, then there aint such a word as mad!"
Thinkright's message had not specified the nature of his guest. "The missin' link," replied Cap'n Lem. "Haw, haw, haw!" The pent-up roar burst forth at last. "Father, he hain't brought home a monkey!" Mrs. Lem's consciousness of the trail on her black brilliantine suddenly failed to support her company manner. "Do tell me you're foolin'!" she added acutely.
He'd hardly dare leave them long enough to sink this craft. But what does he know about running an engine?" "Ah reckon as how he cud, sah, if he just had to," interposed the negro. "He wus a' foolin' mor' or les' wid dat one a' comin' up frum Saint Louee; an' he sure ask'd me a big lot o' questions. He done seemed right handy; he sure did." "Then that probably is the explanation.
Jimmy stared at the shining, battered, bullet-punctured pail in amazement. Slowly he turned it over and around, and then he lifted bewildered eyes to Dannie. "Are you foolin'?" he asked. "Did I bring that thing home in that shape?" "Honest!" said Dannie. "I remember buyin' it," said Jimmy slowly.
And when I found that the man who killed him, Lance Harriott, had been hidin' here, had been sendin' spies all around to find out all about your son, had been foolin' you and tryin' to ruin your gal as he had killed your boy, I knew that HE knew it, too." The door fell in with a crash.
"Nothin', only I was foolin' you, and so was Bill. I've got a feller, and Bill's him." "I'll make you a present when you're married," James called back with a laugh. "It's to come off next summer," cried the girl. "I won't forget," answered James. He knew the girl lied; that she was not about to marry the workingman.
Yah, yah, yah, Massa, you is foolin' dis here niggar now, I know you is when you say Joy is dead, and gone to Heaben, and dis child is shot out for ebber.
"Bettah tell us the story," suggested the swamper quietly. "Yo' ain't foolin', are yo', Mistuh Creighton?" The New Yorker shook his head. "No, I'm not fooling. But you are not the first one to question my story." He smiled reminiscently. "Judge Henry Lane had to see every line of written proof this morning before he would admit that the tale might be true."
"Go 'long, boy, now, d'ye ever heah de better o' dat? dat man's foolin' wid you; jes' tryin' to git yo' to let him out." "No, he isn't," said Willy; "you ought to have heard him." But both Balla and Frank were laughing at him, so he felt very shamefaced. He was relieved by hearing another groan. "Oh, oh, oh! Ah, ah!" "You hear that?" he asked, triumphantly.
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