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"Ye didn't low I seed ye steal ther letter ... but I gives ye leave ter tek hit over thar an' and burn hit up, Rowlett same es them peanut hulls.... I hain't got no need of nuther them ... nur hit." Rowlett's hand, under the sting of accusation, had instinctively pressed itself against his pocket.
Others were tying four men together with rope. Their weapons were lying in a little heap near by. One of the British was saying that Sir Charles Gravleigh had sent for them to ride after the coach. "Jerushy Jane Pepper!" said the man D'ri. "Never see no sech wil'cat uv a woman es thet air." I looked down at my gown; I felt of my hat, now hanging over one ear. Sure enough, I was a woman.
"Hain't no signs es fer es I kin see of any trouble havin' 'curred thar," Jed said slowly, his shrewd gray eyes roaming over the peaceful scene. "Somebody ter hum tew, fer ther chimley is a smokin'." Of course, now I was there, the only sensible thing for me to do would have been to ride openly to the front door, and thus learn all I desired.
"I hain't nuver met ther gal an' like as not she wouldn't favour me with no second look nohow." "I loves ter see a man talk out-right," avowed the Kentuckian with cordial responsiveness. "Es fer me, I've done made me some sev'ral right hateful enemies, myself, because I seeks ter wed with her, an' I 'lowed ter warn ye in good time thet ye mout run foul of like perils."
"Ain't jest eggzac'ly used t' this kind uv a sickle," said D'ri, as he felt the edge of his sabre, "but I 'll be dummed ef it don't seem es ef I 'd orter be ruther dang'rous with thet air 'n my hand." He knew a little about rough fighting with a sabre. He had seen my father and me go at each other hammer and tongs there in our door-yard every day of good weather.
"And you knew it was there all the time, and let Parson John get the blame for stealing it?" "Y-y es. B-b ut fer God's sake have mercy! I I didn't mean to do it! I was o-only j-j okin'! I intended to ex-p-plain everything." There was an ominous movement among the bystanders, and those in the rear did some excited talking, while several left the building.
The proposal being universally approved, they set out for the place, which had oft been visited by the gentle Serafina, who conducted her father to a black marble stone, which Renaldo had ordered to be laid over the grave; and, as he kneeled to kiss the monument, he perceived this plain inscription in the Spanish tongue: Antonia de Zelos primera en todo lo que es ser bueno, y sin segundo en todo lo que fue ser desdichado, quedad con Dios! that is, Antonia de Zelos, unmatched in virtue, and unequalled in misfortune, adieu!
Then his conscience would be clear once more. With this resolve quieting his mind, he turned over on his straw and went peacefully to sleep. Hours afterwards he waked with a yawn. There was no start, no terror, but the appearance of the jailer with the chaplain roused in him disgust for the coming function at the Mont es Pendus. Disgust was his chief feeling. This was no way for a man to die!
They sang a song of East Prussia and raised their foaming glasses at the last two lines: "Es trinkt der Mensch, es sauft das Pferd, In Ostpreussen 1st das umgekehrt."
"But them thet hanged him," he cried out in abrupt violence, "vile es they war ... they warn't nothin' ter ther man thet made a dupe out of him ... ther man thet egged them on.... Bas Rowlett's accountable ter me an' afore ther sun sets I aims ter stand over his dead body!" Parish Thornton flinched at the name.
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