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Congratulate you, suh reckon you want her wuss'n I do." At which sally Stephen grew scarlet, and the crowd howled with joy. "What!" yelled the auctioneer. "Why, gentlemen, this heah's a joke. Nine hundred and ten dollars, gents, nine hundred and ten. We've just begun, gents. Come, Mr. Jerkins, that's giving her away." The trader shook his head, and puffed at his cigar.
"Is the house closed?" "Naw, suh, hit ain closed, but Miss Molly she's got de keys up yonder at de house er de overseer." "Well, send somebody with a grain of sense out here, and I'll look up Miss Molly."
She's worth two thousand. I've been in the business twenty yea's, and I neve' seen her equal. Give me a bid, Mr. Mr. you have the advantage of me, suh." "Eight hundred and thirty-five!" said Stephen. "Now, Mr. Jerkins, now, suh! we've got twenty me' to sell." "Eight fifty!" said Mr. Jerkins. "Eight sixty!" said Stephen, and they cheered him. Mr. Jenkins took his cigar out of his teeth, and stared.
He said you were built with unusual strength in the back, and that many a hard tug in the football scrimmages had made you strong where you most need to be strong now." "Now let's get back to work with our old ramrod, Anstey," cautioned Greg. "Surely, suh, with all my heart," nodded Anstey. "But by day after to-morrow he'll have caught up with us, and be coaching us along for the general review."
"I jus' nachelly hab got to speak to dem ar stable boys a minute, fust. Jus' 'scuse me fo' a minute, suh." He vanished hurriedly, hoping that by this diversion he could gain a little time for Madge and for himself. Layson gazed after him with some astonishment, then went and tried the stable door. "Of course the door's locked," he explained, annoyed, "but he'll be back here in a minute."
I've got a lot to do to-day, but it's in hand, and I don't have to fuss. You'll not forget the wig you'll bring it round yourself?" "Suh. No snoopin' into the parcel then. But if you go to Manitou to-night, how can you have that fiddler?" "He comes at nine o'clock. I'll go to Manitou later. Everything in its own time." He was about to leave the shop when some one came bustling in.
His boat is a Federal transport, and he is in Yankee pay." Ephum took a step forward, appealingly, "But de Cap'n's yo' friend, Marse Comyn. He ain't never fo'get what you done fo' him, Marse Comyn. He ain't in de army, suh." "And I am the Captain's friend, Ephum," answered the Colonel, quietly. "But I will not ask aid from any man employed by the Yankee Government.
"'I could take these observations, said the Captain, 'as nothing except a gratuitous insult to one who approached him, suh, in a spirit of pure benevolence and civic patriotism. It shows the kind of tyrants who commanded the oppressors of the South, suh! Only his gray hairs protected him, suh, only his gray hairs!"
Her native sons rely on themselves an' their native sires. Yes, sir." Then Tweezy lifted up his wise and polite old head. His affliction makes him bashful as a rule, but he is ever the most courteous of horses. "Excuse me, suh," he said slowly, "but, unless I have been misinfohmed, most of your prominent siahs, suh, are impo'ted from Kentucky; an' I'm from Paduky."
"No, suh, not 'specially," chuckled the negro, "but I sutny likes that long price!" Soon there was more 50 to 1 in sight, and the flat-footed negro began to shuffle about the betting-ring, bringing to light other wrinkled two-dollar bills. The bookmakers were glad to take in a few dollars on General Duval, if for no other reason than to round out their sheets.
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