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I hain't got nothin' 'gainst dawgs thet comes on four legs, but I shore bars the two-legged kind." There was a murmur of astonishment from the road. Disregarding it, Spicer South turned his face toward the house. "You boys kin come out," he shouted, "an' leave yore guns inside." The leashes were slipped from the dogs.
Through a path that opened itself in silence for them, they went out of a back door, but when they had gone, Brent saw in astonishment that Bud Sellers was crouching with defiant eyes over Lute Brown as he slowly regained his feet. "Hev ye done hed enough?" demanded Bud in a voice of deadly calm and absolute sobriety. "Because ef ye hain't, I'm hyar ter finish hit up with ye."
"We hain't got no drawin'-room here, an' Eunice ain't seein' no more folks to-day, not if I can help it. I'm sure she won't see no men folks, anyway. We've been overrun with them, a'ready, just 'cause Moses has broke his leg and a few his ribs. Accidents happen to anybody if they're keerless, an' he admits he was. But he's as comfortable as can be expected, thank ye, and good day."
"Sakes alive! why didn't you send for me, Niece Ellen? why didn't you tell me all this long ago, eh? I've got a place down in Florida, that I bought as a speculation just after the war. I hain't never seen it, and might have forgot it long ago but for the tax bills coming in reg'lar every year. It's down on the St.
It wuz then just about dusk, an' the nigger that sort uv run things in the car sez to me: "Boss," sez he, "I 'll have to get you to please not to snore to-night, but to be uncommon quiet." "What for?" sez I. "Hain't I paid my two dollars, an' hain't I entitled to all the luxuries uv the outfit?"
"He's there in that hack yet," assured the driver; "he hain't had a chance to jump out yit." "They ain't pulling ahead are they?" inquired Jim, anxiously. "Holding 'em level going down this hill," replied the driver. "My horse is a leetle heavy for a down grade, but you will see something different when we are going up hill or on the flat."
"The winders?" sez he, lookin' closter at it. "Yes," sez I, "as the ornaments are all fastened on now there hain't no winders and no room for any." "By thunder!" sez he, the second time in my life that I ever hearn him use that wicked swear word. And I sez, "I should think you would be afraid to be so profane, you a deacon and a grand-father!"
"Wall," says I, "you may as well make up your mind in the first ont, that I hain't goin' to give my consent to have you go into any thing dangerous. I hain't goin' to have you break your neck, at your age." Says he, "I don't know but my age is as good a age to break my neck in as any other. I never sot any particular age to break my neck in."
You better take along that d d Greaser o' yourn, that big Juan, fer he kin run trail like a houn'. You stop at all the outfits you come to, fer say fifty miles. Don't do nothin' more'n ask, an' then go on. If you come to a outfit that hain't seen him, an' then another outfit furder on that has seen him, you remember the one that hain't.
Suddenly a sharp whistle came from the darkness ahead. "Thet's Roy," said Joe Beeman, in a low voice. "I reckon. An' meetin' us so quick looks bad," replied Dale. "Drive on, Bill." "Mebbe it seems quick to you," muttered the driver, "but if we hain't come thirty mile, an' if thet ridge thar hain't your turnin'-off place, why, I don't know nothin'."
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