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Suppose that someone turns up and demands all that he has been cheated out of for the past seventeen years! Think of that!" "Well ... I am thinkin' of it. I got the scent of what you was drivin' at five minutes ago. And I don't see that we need to be afraid. He could have put 'Bije in jail; but 'Bije is already servin' a longer sentence than he could give him.
"What did he say, Daddy?" asked Cynthia, as Wetherell stood staring after the flitting buggy in bewilderment. "I haven't the faintest idea, Cynthia," answered her father, and they walked on. "Don't you know who 'Bije' is? "No," said her father, "and I don't care."
You see, I don't know as you know it yet, Mr. Dunn, but my brother 'Bije left me in charge of his whole estate, and, now that I've decided to take the responsibility, I've got a sort of pride in not wastin' any of his children's inheritance. Good day, Mr. Dunn. I'm much obliged to you." He opened the office door. Malcolm, frowning heavily, suddenly asked a final question.
"It's a lie, Sam Price," shouted Chester. "What made you sneak off when Bije Bixby come?" "Didn't sneak off," retorted Sam, indignantly, through his nose; "forgot them eggs I left to home." "Sam," said Lem, with a wink at Moses Hatch, "you hitch up your hoss and fetch me over to Harwich to git that indictment. Might git a chance to see that lady."
He reached the ship without being observed strange to say and attempted to attach the torpedo; but the attaching screw struck against an iron plate and caused great delay. Coming up to get a breath of fresh air, "Bije" was seen and fired upon by a sentinel, and at once rowed away as fast as his oars could carry him.
"Hear Jethro's got the Grand Gulf Road in his pocket to do as he's a mind to with," said Moses, with a view to drawing Bijah out. But the remark had exactly the opposite effect, Bijah screwing up his face into an expression of extraordinary secrecy and cunning. "How much did you git out of it, Bije?" demanded Chester.
"Well, there they was, afloat, but with their upper riggin' gone and the compass smashed flat. A howlin' no'thwester blowin' and fog thick as ever. Zach was a whimperin', fidgetin' old woman, Lafayette and Emulous was prayin' in the scuppers and that ain't an exercise they're used to, neither and even 'Bije was mighty shook up and worried he says he was himself.
"H-how much did you git for your wool, Chester h-how much?" "Guess you hain't here to talk about wool, Bije," said Chester, red with anger. "Kind of neglectin' the farm lately, I hear," observed Bijah. "Jethro Bass sent you up to find out how much I was neglectin' it," retorted Chester, throwing all caution to the winds. "Thinkin' of upsettin' Jethro, be you?
"What sort of fellers were his companions?" asked Captain Elisha. "You mean his friends in society, or his companions downtown in Wall Street?" "The Wall Street ones. I guess I can find out something about the society ones. Anyhow, I can try. These Wall Streeters that 'Bije chummed with a quiet lot, was they?" Sylvester hesitated. "Why why not particularly so," he admitted.
Thinkin' of upsettin' Jethro?" remarked Bije, in a genial tone. "Folks in Clovelly hain't got nothin' to do with it, if I am," said Chester. "Leetle early for campaignin', Chester, leetle early." "We do our campaignin' when we're a mind to." Bijah looked around. "Well, that's funny. I could have took oath I seed Rias Richardson here." There was a deep silence.
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