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"Was it fur me yoh done it?" "Yes, for you." "And fur Him that's comin', Sir?" smiling. Holmes's face grew graver. "No, Lois." She looked into his eyes bewildered. "For the poor child that loved me" he said, half to himself, smoothing her hair.
There are reasons foh it, sah" he had laid a hand on Potts' shoulder and fixed O'Flynn with his eye "and" speaking very solemnly "yoh neither o' yoh gentlemen that need mo' said on the subject." Whereupon, having cut the ground from under their feet, he turned decisively, and stirred the mush-pot with a magnificent air and a newly-whittled birch stick.
As Uncle Noah carefully counted out the money required to purchase this astonishing outlay the bulky proprietor tasked pleasantly: "Uncle Noah, do you happen to know where I can get a good woman to scrub up my store every morning?" Uncle Noah fingered his scarfpin uncertainly. "How much do yoh pay foh de work?" he queried. "Fifty cents a day." The negro leaned forward in tense expectancy.
Ramon was quick to seize upon the one weak point of her armor. "So? He send yoh then to talk with Ramon at midnight? Yoh come to please yoh boss?" Annie-Many-Ponies turned her troubled face his way. "Wagalexa Conka sleep plenty. I not ask," she confessed. "You tell me come here you tell me must talk when no one hear. I come. I no ask Wagalexa Conka him say good girl stay by camp.
I'se a-goin' into Cotesville on a little trip an' I doan want de Colonel to know yoh here." He closed the rickety door, and, hurrying back across the fields, sought the kitchen, his eyes behind their spectacles shining with excitement.
But I reckon the first payment comes to you. You've a right to it, an' I'll stay here till you get all the revenge you want!" "Don't," she whispered huskily. "Don't talk to me! I don't know what I've done!" "You've done," he answered for her, "just what yoh Pappy's been callin' on you to do; just as I did once what my Granny called on me to do. I reckon we're quits, now!"
Dis am a debbil-ship, and dey's a king debbil aft! And dey's a shark overside, and he wasn't waitin' foh what jus' went into the water, no, suh! Yoh ebber sail out East? Yoh ebber see de quiet befoh a typhoon, so quiet seems like yoh can't breathe? Dat's de kind ob peace dat's on de Golden Bough.
Suddenly his brown face glowed with radiance and he drew a long breath of relief. "Job," he said, leaning forward and patting the turkey, "I has it! Yoh'd scarcely believe it, sah, but I'se a-goin' to save yoh." He arose transformed, the despondent droop of his lean body replaced by an alert energy. "Now, Job," he coaxed, "I jus' wants yoh foh to come along wif me peaceable, sah.
Up to now there hasn't been a force in all Gawd's world that could 've come 'tween me an' the things you're teachin'. I didn't care about Potter. He was in the way. I've got no sorrows about anythin' since that day I drew sights on yoh Pappy's head, an' now.
He had not addressed himself to anybody in particular, but I said that I was Mr. Gilland, and he produced the envelope. "Toted in from Okeechobee?" he inquired, listlessly. "Probably; it's signed 'Farrago, isn't it?" "It's foh yoh, suh, I reckon," said the operator, handing it out with a yawn. Then he removed his hat and fanned his head, which was perfectly bald. I opened the yellow envelope.
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