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Now, I never heered o' them bein' good fer anythin', but I reckon the doctor knows what he's talkin' about. He usually does or that's what we think around here, anyhow." In the dusk I trudged home with my armful, my fingers cold. The next morning, the tea having been brewed and taken, my father was better.
There's enough Scotch stubbornness in Allan t' try to make a leader outen a cur jest becus folks said he couldn't. Up in Dawson I heered once he trained a timber wolf t' lead a team o' McKenzie huskies; but he'd find that a heap easier 'n puttin' the racin' sperit inter that low-down Golconda hound; an' I'll bet he'll git all that's comin' t' him this time fer his pains."
I found the block I had chained to the dog beside the road. I heered Squire Jim Kirby talkin' to some men in Tom Belcher's sto' this very mornin'; just happened to overhear him as I come in. 'A boy an' a dog, he says, 'is the happiest combination in nater. Then he went on to tell about your boy an' a tan dog. He had met 'em in the road. Met 'em when?
Some of the hands run off but I didn't know where they went to. "Some of the people was better off slaves than they was free. I don't study bout things now but sometimes seems like all them things comes before me. "I used to hear em talkin' bout old Jeff Davis. I didn't know what they was talkin' bout but I heered em. "I was sixteen when I married and I had eleven chillun. All dead but four.
"Goodnight, Uncle Jo," she said softly, "an' don't forget Hannah's broth or there'll be trouble at Champo." He roused himself again. "I heered from Tave to-day thet Mis' Champney is pretty low." "Yes, she feels this heat in her condition." "Like enough like enough; guess we all do a little." Then he seemed to speak to himself: "She was rough on Champ," he murmured.
He thrust a hand into each coat pocket, and with an eloquent ringing of ironmongery, slammed a brace of heavy revolvers on the table before him. The two henchmen stood silent, each with right hand in right pocket. "I heered my name called," announced the defendant in a deep-rumbling voice of challenge, "an' hyar I be but, afore God on high, I aims ter git me jestice in this co'te!"
His head had fallen backward over the edge and could not be seen. Without moving a muscle, her body crouching, Nance spoke: "You wuz awake you heered?" "Yes!" The gleaming eyes burned through the gray dawn, two points of scintillating, hellish light fixed in purpose on the intruder. She had only meant to take the money. The fool had fought. She killed him because she had to.
"Who said a South has done busted the truce this time?" Old Spencer South gazed searchingly at his nephew. "I hain't a-wantin' ter suspicion ye, Samson, but I know how ye feels about yore pap. I heered thet Bud Spicer come by hyar yistiddy plumb full of liquor, an' 'lowed he'd seed Jesse an' Jim Asberry a-talkin' tergether jest afore yore pap was kilt."
Almost beside herself with her anxiety, she could do nothing save sit there and wait for news. The entrance, even of Barbara Holton, who came in, now, was a relief to her overtaxed nerves. "Say," said she, admitting Barbara nearer to good-fellowship than she had ever done before, "I reckon you have heered the news Ike's drunk dead drunk!" Barbara regarded her excitement with a careful calm.
"An' Tecumseh," continued the narrator, "drawed a map of Detroit an' the 'Merican fort on a piece o' birch bark, as clever, I heered the Gineral say, as an officer of engineers." "But was na yon a gran' speech thae General made us when we were tauld tae attack thae fort?" exclaimed Sandy with martial enthusiasm.
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