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Say, Mis' Virginia, did did he done mention my name anywhar in that letteh?" The pathos of the dark face was pitiful. "'My best love to Bo Peep." Virginia pointed to the line as she read. "Kin I please have this huh envelope?" Bo Peep pleaded, and, clutching it as a sacred treasure, he said: "Mis' Virginia, didn't I done tellen you Misteh Thaine would come back?" "How did you know?"
With new and direful forebodings Aun' Jinkey declared loudly: "I doan know what he be. He ain' say not'n ter me 'bout gwine anywhar." Uttering an angry and contemptuous exclamation, Zany sped back, and, with a scared look, said to Miss Lou, "Aun' Jinkey 'clar she dunno not'n 'bout Chunk's doin's. Ef she ain' foolin' me, I des belebe he's runned away."
The kid he pounded Albrecht's head on the platform, occasionally interestin' Lane by kickin' him in the stomick, while I jist waltzed 'round promiscous-like without seein' no special occasion to take holt anywhar. I reckon they 'd a been thar yit, if the train hands had n't pried 'em apart, an' loaded the remains onter a keer.
I don't care to go trampin' over the country day after day, like the Wandering Jew, after a redskin, as, I'll go bound, ain't no better than the rest o' his kind; but if ye want to see which of our legs is the best pair o' compasses, I'll walk with ye from here to hereafter, I guess, or anywhar else ye choose; if I don't, then my name ain't Stiff."
"Wal," said Zac, "that's a fac', an' no mistake. Give me any kin' of wind, an' thar ain't a Moosoo afloat that can come anywhar nigh the Parson. Still, jest now, in this here fog, an' in the calm, too, if a Moosoo was to come along, why, I railly don't quite know what I could railly do." "The fog! O, in the fog you'll be all right enough, you know," said Claude.
I made the best kind of time, and my last camp was within a dozen miles of Fort Severn. I was purty well used up by that time, and making sure that the varmints warn't anywhar within a day's ride, I put in a good two hours sleep.
I reckon I oughter remember it. It was a queer sort o' day in the fall, dry and hot as if thar might hev bin a fire in the woods, only thar wasn't no wind. Not a breath of air anywhar. The leaves of them alders hung straight as a plumb-line. Except for that thar stream and that thar wheel, nuthin' moved.
"Paul was greatly disappointed," said Henry, "and of course he went to the top of the hill to see if he could get a reckoning." But the new hill merely revealed the same character of country. "Seein' that he wuzn't gittin' anywhar, Paul, o' course, changed his direction," said Shif'less Sol. "Naturally," said Henry. "Now which way do you figger that he would go?" said Tom Ross.
"He seems to be waiting for us." "Yes, I expected to find him at this place. He has been out to take a look at the trail of that war-party who did all this damage. Well, Mose, any news?" "Not much, cap," drawled the scout. "You put straight for the Staked Plains, an' if you are lively enough to ketch 'em anywhar, you'll ketch 'em thar." "Then we shall never get the cattle," said the captain.
"Tom! Sam! look out fo' yourselves!" came from Aleck, and in a second more the negro, burst on their view. "Come, if yo' is dressed!" he added. "Where to?" asked Tom hurriedly. "Anywhar, Massah Tom. De others is took prisoners! Come!" And Aleck almost dragged the boy along.
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