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'As a sartin acquaintance of mine once said to me, I says, 'you look a good deal handsomer up there than you do in a boat. "'You you etcetery and so forth, continued in our next! says he, or words to that effect. "'That's all right, says I, putting on the power. 'You've got no kick coming. I allow you to er ornament my weir-pole, and 'tain't every dude I'd let do that.
"I don't rightly know," she said slowly, "maybe she doesn't care much for gadding about." "Rubbish," he retorted contemptuously, "if you can't come, Jessie must anyway." Mrs. Sartin held firmly to the carriage door and the oscillation of the cab caused her to nod violently, but it was not in assent to Christopher's proposition. She appeared to be turning something over in her slow mind.
Westart lies the settlement o' the Del Nort; but we mout come on the same Injuns by goin' that direckshun. I'm not sartin they're Tenawas.
I sartin do. Change your course once in awhile, same as you change your clothes. Wearin' the same suit and cruisin' in the same puddle all the time ain't healthy. You're too apt to get sick of the clothes and puddle both." "But you don't believe in traveling alone, do you?"
Heman's been writin' her pretty reg'lar, I know that, 'cause Chris Badger told me so a week after she'd gone. I don't know, Thankful; one thing's sartin, Heman's kept his engagement mighty quiet. How Eben learned of it I don't know, but nobody in East Wellmouth knows, for I've been soundin' ever since I struck here." Thankful was greatly troubled. "I HOPE it ain't true," she cried.
Aunt Katy was so infirm that she kept her bed for the greater part of the time, but on this day she was sitting-up, and from her low cabin window she caught a view of the visitors as they alighted from the carriage. When Mr. Stafford appeared, she half started from her chair and said aloud, "Who upon airth can that be, and whar have I seen him? Somewhar, sartin."
He then selected from the arms a short double-barrelled gun, and, slinging a powder-horn and shot-pouch over his shoulders, prepared to depart. "Now listen, my soft one," he said, on completing his arrangements. "I feel a'most sartin sure that the cry ye heard was not daddy's; nevertheless, the bare possibility o' such a thing makes it my dooty to go an' see if it was the old man.
'So we will, for sartin, says I. 'Let's put out th' light, so th' bloody-minded murderer won't ha' narthin' to go by if he ain't seen it yet. So we put out th' light and stayed theer till th' mornin', when we went out to work, and then when I seed Dick later we thowt we'd come and tell you all about it, seein' as yower a gentleman, and in consiquence a man of larnin', and might p'rhaps tell us what we'd better do."
"In course, if there wur any red-skins within two or three miles on these hills they would make out the camp, still that ain't likely; but any loafing Indian who chanced to be hunting ten or even fifteen miles away would see smoke if there was any, and when a red-skin sees smoke, if he can't account for it, he is darned sartin to set about finding out who made it."
She started up from her pillow, asking eagerly, "What is it, mammy? Oh! what is it? is my papa better?" "Yes, darling Massa Horace much better dis mornin'; de doctor say 'he gwine git well now for sartin, if he don't git worse again." "Oh, mammy! It seems too good to be true! Oh, how very, very good God has been to me!" cried the little girl, weeping for very joy.