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"You is too," and Uncle Billy's forefinger began to shake in the other's face. "You's stealin' a nigger!" "What dat?" and Jeems Henry's eyes opened wide with amazement. "What you talkin' 'bout?" "Talkin' 'bout you," replied Uncle Billy, sharper than ever. "Dey say a nigger's wuth a thousan' dollars. 'Cose you ain't wuth dat much," he said with utter disgust.
He exceeded, spilled over the limits of normality, and his features told lies about the man beneath. "The bunch is worth fifty thousan'," Jim remarked suddenly. "A hundred thousan'," Matt said. The silence returned and endured a long time, to be broken again by Jim. "What in blazes was he doin' with 'em all at the house? that's what I want to know.
Again he had recourse to the food shelf, where he emptied the sugar from a large paper bag. Into this he thrust the diamonds, large and small, wrapped it up in a bandana handkerchief, and stowed it away under his pillow. Then he sat down on the edge of the bed and took off his shoes. "An' you think they're worth a hundred thousan'?" Jim asked, pausing and looking up from the unlacing of his shoe.
But not like you, Bigot. I have earned, this way and that, all that I might ever get from the King's coffers even this three hunder' thousan' francs, ten times told. But you, Bigot tush! why should we make bubbles of words? The Intendant get white in the face, but there are spots on it like on a late apple of an old tree. 'You go too far, Doltaire, he say.
But to get this tale tol' an' the money in your hands: I didn't know who'd tried to do for me, but I guessed it must have been some one who'd found out somehow about the ten thousan' an' thought I had it on me. When I come to at the cabin an' firs' thing tried to get a chaw of tobacco I foun' my pockets all turned wrong side out.
The time go ver' fast, and my breath catch in my throat to see how great the stakes they play for. I hear M'sieu' Doltaire say at last, with a smile, taking out his watch, 'M'sieu' the General, your time is up, and you take with you twenty thousan' francs. "The General, he smile and wave his hand, as if sorry to take so much from M'sieu' Cadet and the Intendant.
'I have come six thousan' miles f'r to hist ye fr'm th' mire iv ignorance an' irrellijon in which ye live to th' lofty plane iv Baraboo, he says. An' he sets down on an aisy chair, an' his wife an' her friends come in an' they inthrojooce Mrs.
"Wa'al," said David, "I kept the trade margined, of course, an' if we'd sold out at the bottom you'd have owed me somewhere along a thousan' or fifteen hunderd; but," he added, "it was only in the slump, an' didn't last long, an' anyway I cal'lated to carry that pork to where it would 'a' ketched fire. I wa'n't worried none, an' you didn't let on to be, an' so I didn't say anythin'."
I can be a thousan' miles away from here, in a week, but you're different. All they got to do is grab the ranch, it's good for five or six thousan' in damages, all right. Still if you don't want to trade, I'll be goin'." He gathered up his reins. "Hold on! It's a damned hold-up, but what was it you wanted?"
"Well, says th' la-ad, 'they'se five thousan' in it f'r ye, he says. They had to pry Dochney off iv him. Th' nex' day a man he knowed well come to Dochney, an' says he, 'That's a fine ordhnance iv Schwartz. 'It is, like hell, says Dochney. ''Tis a plain swindle, he says.
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