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"Mistoo Claude, I see a gen'leman dis day noon what I ain't see' befo' since 'bout six year' an' mo'. I disremember his name, but " "Tarbox?" asked Claude with sudden interest. "Yes, seh. Dass it! Tah-bawx. Sim like any man ought to 'member dat name. Him an' you papa done gone down de canal. Yes, seh; in a pirogue.
A hand gripped at my sleeve timidly, and I turned quickly to encounter the eyes of Asa Hall. Never did I read such depth of fear in the expression of any face it was the wild, unreasoning terror of an animal. "What is it, my boy?" "It's him, seh," he whispered, his lips trembling so I could scarce catch the words. "Thet feller thar. He's he's the one I saw las' night with Black Hawk."
The night you ran the batteries he and some others went across to your side in skiffs in skiffs, seh, I say and set fire to the houses in De Soto, that we might see to shoot. And then he came back in the face of our own batteries and your guns. That man was wounded by a trick of fate, by a cussed bit of shell from your coehorns while eating his dinner in Vicksburg.
Don' let any one know 'bout it, or know why you've gone. 'Yes, seh, sez I. "Yo' see, I knowed Miss Anne's maid over at ole Cun'l Chahmb'lin's dat wuz Judy whar is my wife now an' I knowed I could wuk it. So I tuk de roan an' rid over, an' tied 'im down de hill in de cedars, an' I wen' 'roun' to de back yard.
She came back up the ditch and then rode right up to the head-gates and turned on the water. Jim Little saw her cutting across country from the head-gates hell-to-split." "Far as I can make out, all the evidence you've given me ain't against her, but against you. She was out drivin' when it happened, you say, and you expect me to arrest her for it. It ain't against the law to go driving, seh.
"An' he sez, 'Fire, one, two' an' ez he said 'one, old Cun'l Chahmb'lin raised he pistil an' shot right at Marse Chan. De ball went th'oo his hat. I seen he hat sort o' settle on he head ez de bullit hit it, an' HE jes' tilted his pistil up in de a'r an' shot-BANG; an' ez de pistil went BANG, he sez to Cun'l Chahmb'lin, 'I mek you a present to yo' fam'ly, seh!
But now, when you come to a jamboree a jam Fudjinia" he smiled an affectionate persuasion "we ain't been appi'nted the chiefs o' this evenin's transactions to stan' idlin' round, is we?" "Go on, seh, go on." "Well, you know, Mr.
From his fence the divine now spoke, in approbation, but with another strong, cheerless smile. "You pick up that rope as if you were well trained to it." "It's part of our business, seh, and we try to mind it like the rest." But this, stated in a gentle drawl, did not pierce the missionary's armor; his superiority was very thick.
He didn't seem particularly scared; he was serious, that's all; his eyes were set in that peculiar, wide-pupiled stare of the man contemplating his own fixed idea. "'No, seh; Ah cain't affawd it, he repeated. "The absurdity of the thing suddenly tingled in me like wine. 'All right! I shouted, in a contagion of insanity; 'all right, take the darned thing! "And I got out.
What the deuce is the mystery?" "What why, of course you're the most interested party and the only Little Riversite that don't know about it, seh!" After all, there was some compensation for early rising. Bob expanded with the privilege of being the first to break the news. "If you'd come yesterday you'd have seen him. He went by the noon train," he said, and proceeded with the story of Prather.
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