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But," somewhat apologetically, "you see I've been acquainted with him so many years I've got into the habit of seein' his INSIDE. Now that sounds kind of ridiculous, I know," she added. "Sounds as if I I well, as if I was in the habit of takin' him apart, like a watch or somethin'. What I mean is that I know him all through. I've known him for a long, long while.
It was fun at first, lookin' up every arroyo and slit in the hills, till we found it. Same as them marriages on the desert, after that." "Marriages?" "Uhuh. Seein' water what ain't there, like." "Oh, mirages!" And Louise laughed joyfully. "I don't see no joke," said Overland, aggrieved. "I really beg your pardon." "That's all right, Miss. But what would you call it?"
I'll jist ax en to come to tea next Sunday, and I'll tell en as a very nice body what we've lately got acquainted wi' be a' a-comin' to tea, too; an' I'll jist set down, careless-like, as she have got a bank-book what is worth seein'. Jist no more nor that. "'Ah, that 'ud maybe do very well, says Domeny, and we did put our heads together, and between us the letter was wrote.
It was no weak, trifling face such as J. Jervice exhibited. A hard, rough look a cruel, remorseless look a mean, ugly look all these things he read in that face. "Mebbe ye'll know me when ye see me agen," said the man. Glen made no reply. "I ain't figurin' on you seein' much more o' me, though, nor any of us. D'ye know what I'm goin' to do with you?"
"Of course. I ought to have thought of it, too." "Thar must be sent'nels on the bank, but waitin' 'bout ten minutes we'll git into the canoe an' paddle off. The sent'nels will know that two warriors are to go back in it, an' they'll think we're them. This darkness which has come up, heavy an' black, on purpose to help us, will keep 'em from seein' that we ain't warriors.
"I ain't goin' through the world seein' no men as is better 'n I be," he said, "but there's jest this much about it, I ain't a fool, an' I know enough to open the door when a man wants to walk through to pay me some money.
Then come the Police Station, and Fire Department, and then a French Cider Press; but I didn't care nothin' about seein' that cider duz more hurt than whiskey enough sight, American or French, and it wuzn't any treat to me to see it made, or drunk up, nor the effects on it nuther. Then there wuz a large French Restaurant, one of the best-built structures on the ground. Then come right along St.
"Well, seein' as the Maggie has two holes through her hull below the waterline, and is generally nicked to pieces, you might quit askin' questions and get back aboard and put the pumps on her. You're lucky if she don't sink on you before we get to Descanso Bay. If she sinks, don't worry. I'll give you a job as my first mate. Mac, you're my engineer, but not at no fancy Mexican price.
"Atter dat de niggers let de scuppernon's 'lone, en Mars Dugal' didn' hab no 'casion ter fine no mo' fault; en de season wuz mos' gone, w'en a strange gemman stop at de plantation one night ter see Mars Dugal' on some business; en his coachman, seein' de scuppernon's growin' so nice en sweet, slip 'roun' behine de smoke-house, en et all de scuppernon's he could hole.
"Mas'r quite right, quite; it was ugly on me, there's no disputin' that ar; and of course Mas'r and Missis wouldn't encourage no such works. I'm sensible of dat ar; but a poor nigger like me 's 'mazin' tempted to act ugly sometimes, when fellers will cut up such shines as dat ar Mas'r Haley; he an't no gen'l'man no way; anybody's been raised as I've been can't help a seein' dat ar."
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