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"I's berry sorry to leave you tied up," said Ebony, rising to quit the place, "but when men is foolish like leetil boys, dey must be treat de same. De straw will keep you comf'rable. I daren't leave de torch, but I'll soon send you food by a sure messenger, and come back myself soon as iver I can." "Stay, Ebony, I'm at your mercy, and as no good can come of my remaining bound, I must give in.
"It is an awful place," she said faintly. "Yes, it am a awrful good place," said Dinah, with satisfaction. "Not easy to find you yar; an' if dey did git dis lengt' widout breakin' dere legs, dere's a nice leetil hole yar what you could git in an' larf to youself." She led the poor girl to the other end of the room, where, in a recess, there was a boarded part of the wall.
"It is an ingenious device," said the preacher, throwing his exhausted form on a heap of pine branches which lay in a corner. "Who invented it your husband?" "No; it was Leetil Tim," returned the girl, with a low musical laugh. "Big Tim says hims fadder be great at 'ventions. He 'vent many t'ings. Some's good, some's bad, an' some's funny."
I knows it by de pig-sty close 'longside whar' de big grumper sow libs, dat Ziffa's so fond o' playin' wid. Ho! "You see de small leetil house. Dat's it. Dat's whar' Ziffa lubs to play, but she'll hab you to play wid soon, an' den she'll forsake de ole sow. Ho! but I forgit you no understan' English."
Surely you no kin refuse so small a favour to dis yar black hoss w'ats carried you so of in, afore you die!" "Of course not, my poor fellow! but to what purpose of what use will it be to delay matters? It will only prolong the captain's search needlessly." "Oh! nebber mind. Der's good lot o' huts in de place to keep de hipperkrit goin'. Plenty ob time for a last leetil ride.
"It is as I expected," he said, coming to a sudden stand, and pointing to a faint mark on the turf. "Leetil Tim has taken the short cut to the Lopstick Hill, but I cannot guess the reason why." Big Tim was down on his knees examining the footprints attentively. "Daddy's futt, an' no mistake," he said, rising slowly. "I'd know the print of his heel among a thousand.
She thought of her father and Little Tim, and became suddenly grave. Perceiving and regretting this, the young Indian hastily changed the subject of conversation. "The Blackfeet," he said, "have heard much about the great pale-faced chief called Leetil Tim. Does the skipping one know Leetil Tim?"
Big Tim's style of speech was in accordance with his half-caste nature sometimes flowing in channels of slightly poetic imagery, like that of his Indian mother; at other times dropping into the very matter-of-fact style of his white sire. "Leetil Tim vill be glad," said Softswan. "Ay, daddy will be pleased. By the way, I wonder what keeps him out so long?
You are a foreigner, I perceive," said Fred Westly in French, but the stranger shook his head. "I not un'erstan'." "Ah! a German, probably," returned Fred, trying him with the language of the Fatherland; but again the stranger shook his head. "You mus' spok English. I is a Swedish man; knows noting but a leetil English."
She lef' de oders far behind, an' looked like nuffin so much as dat poor little blear-eyed monkey you shot de oder day, what Senhorina Manuela say was so nice to eat. What! you un'erstan' Ingliss?" added the negro, looking at the Indian girl, who had given vent to a half-suppressed giggle. "Yes leetil," replied Manuela, without attempting further to restrain her mirth.
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