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Feeling her nearness, he shifted back, and the small hand fell limply. "Before ye go to Lem," pursued Lon, "I want to tell ye somethin'." Still Fledra did not speak. "Ye know that it'll save Flukey, if ye mind me, and that it don't make no difference if ye don't like Lem." "Wouldn't it have made any difference if my mother hadn't loved you, Pappy Lon?"
When I'se littl' I sleeped in a trun'l bed. My mammy wuz mighty 'ticlar an' clean, why she made us chilluns wash ouah feets ebry night fo' we git into de bed." "When Marse Hunt muved up to Charl'stun, my mammy and pappy liv' in log cabin." "My gran' mammy, duz I 'member hur? Honey chile, I shure duz. She wuz my pappy's mammy. She wuz one hun'erd and fo' yeahs ol' when she die rite in hur cheer.
Night was settling down over the woods. An old half-breed woman was tending the fire in the one room of the shack, and on the wretched bed lay a fair-faced woman, the young wife and mother, who looked wistfully out at the bleak woods, white with the first snow, then turned her wan, pale face toward the tiny bundle at her side. "Your pappy will come to-night, baby," she said, softly.
The sharpness of Shellington's voice told Middy that this news was of moment. "Well, ye see, 'tain't none of my business, 'cause the gal belongs to Lon; but, if she was mine, I wouldn't give her to no Lem Crabbe. Lem said she jumped in the lake after a pup; but I 'low he was monkeyin' with her. Her pappy hopped in the water after her like a frog and pulled her out quicker'n scat."
And as he looked more closely at her face the truth slowly crept into his brain. Passionately his hands went out to her, as he took a trembling step forward: "My Gawd, my Gawd, Miss Jane! Don't tell me that I done that! Don't tell me it war yoh Pappy!" The telephone was on the wall of this room. Keeping the long table between them, she crossed quickly and turned the little crank.
Mills, suddenly, and when Vashti did not feel called on to try to enlighten her she added, "Do you?" "Same as other folks, I s'pose," said the girl, quietly. "Other folks has somebody somebody to take keer on 'em. I've got your pappy now; but she ain't got nobody but little Darby and when he's gone what will she do?"
Pappy Lon hates me, and he's licked ye all he's goin' to. Git along and crib the duds!" She rose to her feet, nervously breaking away the little rivers of grease that had hardened upon her hand and wrist. "Ye've got to get into the hut in the dark," she said, "and then ye stand at the mouth of the cave while I put on the things."
"I wants to go home." She saw another tear roll down the plastered cheek, and repeated her operation with the rag. "What do ye want?" she demanded again. "To tell ye thet I air a goin' to make an hones' woman of ye. I's a goin' to marry ye. I knows I's a pappy, but the brat'll die, and he'll be forgot like yer daddy will!" Tess instantly froze into a white, tense little form.
"W'y, Sammy, w'y, Sammy honey, you know Pappy don't do it fer nair sech a reason. Hit don't look no sech a thing like you was shif'less an' lazy. Hit jes look like Pappy got nothin' to do, an' love to come and give you a turn with yo' co'n; an', Sammy honey," the good farmer for the moment getting the better of the timid, soft-hearted parent, "hit is might'ly in the weeds, boy.
The negroes had gathered together on the deck and their voices rose together in a haunting melody that soared in poignant harmonics toward the moon. And Ardita listens in enchantment. "Oh down oh down, Mammy wanna take me down milky way, Oh down, oh down, Pappy say to-morra-a-a-ah But mammy say to-day, Yes mammy say to-day!"
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