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"Ay," he added, "there goes a real Christian, and a true-hearted friend. Ah's me! I'll never see him more!" Bax wandered slowly and without aim over the dark waste for some time. Almost unintentionally he followed the path that led past the Checkers of the Hope. A solitary light burned in one of the lower windows of the old inn, but no sound of revelry issued from its doors.
'What does this mean? Richard asked abruptly, handing the letter to his visitor. Keene perused the crabbed writing, and uttered sundry 'Ah's' and 'Hum's. 'Do you know anything about it? Mutimer continued, in a tone between mere annoyance and serious indignation. 'I think I had better tell you what took place last night, said the journalist, with side glances.
As long as I live, Mabel can dwell with me, and you will always have a home when you return from your scoutings and marches." "This is very pleasant to think of, Sergeant, if the girl can only come into our wishes with good-will. But, ah's me! It does not seem that one like myself can ever be agreeable in her handsome eyes.
"Yer'l surely excuse me, sah," he said at last, humbly, his voice with a note of pleading in it. "Ah's feelin' friendly 'nough, an' all dat, sah, but still yer mus' 'member dat Ah's talkin' ter a perfict stranger. If yer wud sure tell me furst just whut yer was aimin' at, then maybe Ah'd know a heap mor'n Ah do now." "I guess you are right, Sam. I'll tell you the whole of it.
"'Tis all over, Jasper," said he, "'tis all over. Ah's me! Poor Sergeant Dunham has finished his march, and that, too, by the hand of a venomous Mingo. Well, we never know what is to happen, and his luck may be yourn or mine to-morrow or next day!" "And Mabel? What is to become of Mabel, Pathfinder?"
Ah's me! your Delawares were the redskins of which America might boast; but few and scattered is that mighty people, now! Well! the traveller may just make his pitch where he is; he has plenty of water, though natur' has cheated him of the pleasure of stripping the 'arth of its lawful trees. He has seen the last of his four-footed creatures, or I am but little skilled in Sioux cunning."
And all the time Unc' Billy Possum held his breath and lay low. "Mah home is in a holler tree It's a long way home! Ah wish Ah's there, but here Ah be It's a long way home! If Ah had only been content Instead of out on mischief bent, Ah'd have no reason to repent It's a long way home!"
"I now understand what you meant, Jasper, by speaking without a tongue and hearing without an ear," he said when close enough to the tree to be heard. "Yes, I understand it now, I do; and a very pleasant sort of discourse it is, when one can hold it with Mabel Dunham. Ah's me!
As he went up the steps he heard them talking among themselves in that strange language of theirs, all oo's and ah's; and he thought he distinguished the voice of the respectable Ugly-Wugly saying, "Most gentlemanly lad," and the wreathed-hatted lady answering warmly: "Yes, indeed." The coloured-glass door closed behind him. Behind him was the yard, peopled by seven impossible creatures.
And you'd better send a doctor who's qualified to write a death certificate; there was a woman killed, too.... Yes, certainly; the State Police have been notified." "Dis ain' so bad, Cunnel," Sergeant Williamson raised his head to say. "Ah's seen men shot wuss'n dis dat was ma'ked 'Duty' inside a month, suh." Colonel Hampton nodded.
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