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The man bowed profoundly before Patsy and then informed me: "Please, Massa Morris, de c'unel 'mires fo' to see yo' at de house right erway. I 'spects it's business fo' de gun'ner. De c'unel mos' 'tic'lar dat say he wants to see yo' to once. Yas, sah. Please, sah." I dismissed him with a word of my immediate attendance on the colonel. Then I gave my hand to Patsy and said: "This ends it then.
"Well, no," said the old woman, "I can't say that I've gone hungry or nuthin'; but I was only a-gittin' 'fraid I might. Dis hyar 'tic'lar way o' doin' things makes a person scary." "I am glad that Kate is particular," said Mrs. Loudon. "You know, Aunt Matilda, that money isn't very plenty with any of us, and we all have to learn to make it go as far as it will.
"Which finger was the blue ring tattooed on?" he asked, and he waited anxiously for the answer. "Let me see, it were on de right no, it were on de little finger ob de left hand." "Are you sure, Rad?" "Suah, Mistah Swift. I took 'tic'lar notice, 'cause he carried a stick in dat same hand." "It must be my man Happy Harry!" exclaimed Tom half aloud. "Which way did he go, Rad, after he left you?"
Despite his own fixity of gaze, Hank noted what they were doing, and turning abruptly toward them, asked: "Do you obsarve anything 'tic'lar?" "Nothing more than what we have seen," replied Jack. "There are the mountain peaks, most of them reaching above the snow-line; the dark masses below; the scrubby pines, with more abundant vegetation, still further down."
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