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Wal, you'd better believe there was a starin' and a wonderin' next Sunday mornin' when the second bell was a tollin', and the minister walked up the broad aisle with Huldy, all in white, arm in arm with him, and he opened the minister's pew, and handed her in as if she was a princess; for, you see, Parson Carryl come of a good family, and was a born gentleman, and had a sort o' grand way o' bein' polite to women-folks.
Her mizenmast is over the side, and she looks as if she might have been afire; but I don't see nobody aboard of her except the chap what's hangin' over the poop rail, and it's him that seems to be tollin' the bell." "All right, boatswain," I replied, "I'll be on deck directly, and take my bath as usual under the head-pump, after which we will have a good look at our neighbour."
He's just tollin' you along because he's had a dream that if he gets you real stuck on yourself you'll come across with two or three thousand for expenses and will be too tender-hearted to squeal afterwards. That's his game, and all you've got to do to queer it is to send him ten and say the folks object." That's about the way I put it, drawin' it as strong as I knew how.
I niver seen it blazin' brighter and there was a big bell somewhere boomin' away, as if they'd set the heart of the world tollin'; it's ringin' in me ears yet.... And a couple of days after that I quit out of Dublin, and I've been trampin' back to this counthry, takin' me time, as he said there's no hurry now about anythin'. So that was the ind of me University Degree."
Two! three! it went solemnly on, the mellow cadence scarcely dying before another stroke renewed it. The sexton was Simeon Pease, a little red-headed man, a hunchback, abnormally strong. Suddenly he rose in amazement. His face looked ashen. "Suthin's tollin' the bell!" he gasped. "The bell's a-tollin' an' I ain't there!" A new element of mystery and terror sprang to life.
He bestowed a shadowy wink on the stranger Below, the outlaws moved here and there. "Billy!" shouted a commanding voice, "Billy Knapp!" The hotel-keeper looked perplexed. "Now, what's he tollin' me for?" he asked of the man by his side. "Billy!" shouted the voice again, "come down here, you Siwash. I want to palaver with you!" "All right, Hank," replied Billy.
'Pete ter holp dig an' tote ef the box be heavy. An' you ter find out edzac'ly whar it be hid. You uns an' Loralindy hev been keepin' company right smart, an' ye kin toll Loralindy along till she lets slip jes' whar that lily air growin'. I'll be bound ez she likes ye a sight better 'n that Renfrow leastwise ef 't warn't fur his letter, honeyin' her up with complimints, an' she hevin' the chance o' tollin' him on through doin' him sech faviors, savin' his life, an' now his money shucks it's mo' our money 'n his'n; 't ain 't his 'n!
'Twas like bells tollin' before. 'Time was whin you were quick enough wid your words, you that talked me down to hell. Are ye dumb now? An' Love-o'-W omen got his tongue, an' sez simple, like a little child, 'May I come in? he sez.
"You are right, Terry, but what did you do with that bell that Deerfoot took away from the Winnebago?" "I lift it wid my gun on the other side of the creek; I didn't want it tollin' our funeral knell all the time we was goin' through the rapids and splittin' the rocks to pieces by bangin' our heads agin them."
Two! three! it went solemnly on, the mellow cadence scarcely dying before another stroke renewed it. The sexton was Simeon Pease, a little red-headed man, a hunchback, abnormally strong. Suddenly he rose in amazement. His face looked ashen. "Suthin's tollin' the bell!" he gasped. "The bell's a-tollin' an' I ain't there!" A new element of mystery and terror sprang to life.
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