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"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'."
"Then they'd have a case at law agin us," said Zeb. "How do you mean?" asked Jack. "Wa'al, we ain't filed no claim yet and in the eyes of the law them deposits down there in the black barren is as much theirs as ours."
"'Wa'al, ye won't, I don't believe, I says, 'an' as fur as that drummer is concerned, you c'n bet, I says, 'that he didn't nor won't let on to nobody but his own folks not till his bus'nis is squared up, an' more 'n that, I says, 'seein' that your trouble 's ben made ye by one o' my help, I don't see but what I'll have to see ye through, I says.
"An' get Blacky down on us? You-all can bet we kep' quiet an' didn' even talk about Blacky to each other. Wa'al, that went on for a week or two. Then, one mornin', while we was all in school, a big storm come up, thunder an' lightnin' an' all.
"Wa'al," said David, "all on 'em laughed some, but Price he jest lay back an' roared, and I found out afterwuds," added David, "that ev'ry man at the table, except the Englis'man, know'd what 'low bridge' meant from actial experience. Wa'al, scat my !" he exclaimed, as he looked at his watch, "it ain't hardly wuth while undressin'," and started for the door.
Her voice had sunk to a whisper. Another exchange of glances. "Wa'al, ma'am, jes gin us the favor of a light by yer fire, an' we-uns 'll find him."
Then I got down an' I strapped that animal so't he couldn't move nothin' but his head an' tail, an' got back into the buggy. Wa'al, bom-by, it may 'a' ben ten minutes, or it may 'a' ben more or less it's slow work settin' still behind a balkin' hoss he was ready to go on his own account, but he couldn't budge.
The two occupants of the compartment rose at the same moment, leaped into the courtyard, and confronted Ezekiel. Surrounded by the three menacing figures he did not quail, but remained intently gazing upon the newcomer. Then his mouth opened, and he drawled lazily: "Wa'al, ef it ain't Squire Blandford, of North Liberty, Connecticut, I'm a treed coon. Squire Blandford, how DO you do?"
Finally he allowed that if he had some money he'd go West 'n take up some land, 'n git along like pussly 'n a flower gard'n. He ambitioned that if his mother 'd raise a thousan' dollars on her place he'd be sure to take care of the int'rist, an' prob'ly pay off the princ'ple in almost no time. Wa'al, she done it, an' off he went.
"Wa'al," said David, "f'm his standpoint f'm his standpoint, I guess he did, an'," rubbing his chin with two fingers of his left hand, "it's a putty dum good standpoint too. I've ben lookin'," he added reflectively, "fer an honest man fer quite a number o' years, an' I guess I've found him; yes'm, I guess I've found him."
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