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Updated: June 18, 2025
I'll be put in the papers an old man informed on by his darter, and he on his last sick bed!... Nancy, I say, where be you a-hidin' yourself?" Nancy returned to her forlorn charge, and after a while the old man fell asleep.
Now, I want ye to hold up yer right hand and sw'ar that you'll never tell a livin' soul that you know whar dad is a-hidin'." Raines did not turn his face, which was as emotionless as stone. Air ye goin' to sw'ar? " she asked, with fierce impatience. Without looking at her, he began to speak-very slowly: "Do ye think I'm fool enough to try to gain yer good-will by a-tellin' on yer dad?
If you ain't a-hidin' of that thar feller, ye won't mind my pokin' around a bit, will yer?" Laura did not say a word. She stood up and looked over at Liz Bean. For a moment the maid-of-all-work seemed petrified. Then she dove for the growling Barnacle. She untied the rope with which he was fastened. "Hello!" exclaimed the puffing sheriff. "What's that for?"
"That's precisely what them men war determinated not ter be! They war a-hidin' in the mountings ter git shet o' the conscription." "Waal, I don't keer ef ye names 'em 'conscripts' or no," Nicholas retorted loftily. "That's what other folks calls 'em.
They hain't found him yit, fer he's out in the mountains somewhar a-hidin'." "How do they get along without him?" asked Clayton. "Why, the gal does the work. She ploughs with that bull, and does the plantin' herself. She kin chop wood like a man. An' as fer shootin', well, when huntin's good 'n' thar's shootin'-matches round-about, she don't have to buy much meat."
"Jest a suspicious hoot of an owl an' a movin' shader," answered Ham. "I reckon thar was one of them durned skunks a-hidin' in that clump of trees, a-callin' out some signal; an' I shouldn't be none s'prised if my bullet pinked him. Leastwise I thought I heer'd a smothered cry." "Get torches and we will see," cried Mr. Conroyal excitedly. "Maybe you got him, Ham."
But suppose there's a chance of an able-bodied enemy, aided and abetted with a gun, a-hidin' behind each and every one of them rocks and bushes? Don't life take on an interest? I bet you money! The imaginations of that man's mind gets started up. Life becomes full of chances. The man, he's interested in his life because the other feller wants to take it away from him.
Then they mounts th' other tew hosses an' goes a-ridin' off a-leadin' the hoss with th' dead body across its back ahind 'em; an' in ridin' off, they comes within a dozen rods of whar I was a-hidin', an' I sees 'em plain, an' I was s'prised tew see that they didn't look tew be much more'n boys; an' yit they 'peared tew have killed a man!
"Heap de beech leaves an' de oak leaves upon dis heah po' los' niggah. Oh, my lan'! don' you heah 'um comin'?" Dead leaves fell upon her in a shower, and her accomplice gathered more with frantic haste. "Oh, it's the ghost in the tobacco-house! it's a rock rolling down the mountain! it's it's something splashing in the swamp!" "Is I a-hidin' in de swamp?
The girl's attitude changed instantly into vague alarm, and her eyes flashed upon Raines as though they would sear their way into the meaning hidden in his quiet face. Gradually his motive seemed to become clear, and she advanced a step toward him. "So you've found out whar dad is a-hidin'?" she said, her voice tremulous with rage and scorn.
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