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"Bije turns up here, and you all scatter like a flock of crows. I'm tired of makin' complaints about that Brampton road, and to-day the hull side of it give way, and put me in the ditch. Sure as the sun rises to-morrow, I'm goin' to make trouble for Jethro." "What be you a-goin' to do, Lem?" "Indict the town," replied Lem, vigorously. "Who is the town? Jethro, hain't he?
"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.
We want Heth to go back break his heart if he didn't you understand. If I'd knowed last winter Jethro meant business, I wouldn't hev' helped Gus Flint out. Tell Jethro he can have 'em you know what I mean. Bije waited a little mite too long," said the senator, who had given a very fair imitation of Mr. Bixby's nasal voice and manner. "Well, I'm d d!" ejaculated Mr. Balch, staring at Jethro.
Betsy's name was Ginn afore she married, and the Ginns was related on their ma's side to a Richards Emily Richards, I think 'twas and Emily married a Thayer. Would that make this Mary a third cousin? Now let's see; Sarah Jane Ginn, she had an aunt who kept a boardin' house in Harniss. I remember that, 'count of her sellin' my Uncle Bije a pig.
"Was your brother's name A. Rodgers Warren?" "'A. Rodgers'? No. His name is Abijah Warren, and Wait! His middle name is Rodgers, though. Did 'Bije send you to me?" "A moment, Captain. Was your brother a broker?" "Yes. His office is or used to be on Broad Street. What " "You have not heard from him for some time?" "Not for eighteen years. He and I didn't agree as well as we might.
And if we're off the course and too far out, we'd ought to have deeper water than five fathom, hadn't we? 'Course I'm not sure, but What's that, lands-man? "'Three and a half, sir, says the feller with the lead. That showed they was edgin' in somewheres. Nat he sniffed, for all the world like a dog catchin' a scent, so 'Bije declares. "'I can smell home, he says.
"'Bije just stared at Hammond with his mouth open. "'Nat, says he, 'you're a seaman, if I do say it. I thought I was a pretty good bay pilot, but I can't steer a vessel without a compass through a night as black as Pharaoh's Egypt, and in a thick fog besides, and land her square on top of her moorin's.
This sunburned, retired captain was the New York financier's elder brother. And this certainty made Mr. Graves's errand more difficult, and the cause of it more inexplicable. Captain Elisha cleared his throat. "Well, well!" he sighed. "So 'Bije has gone. I s'pose you think it's odd, maybe," he went on, "that I ain't more struck down by the news.
Easus explained to his friend as they walked out of the building, that he was engaged to the girl, and when they parted at the platform of the street car the drummer grabbed her by the hand and shook it as a terrier would a rat and said, "Well, Mrs. Bije Easus, that is to be, let me wish you many happy returns." Mr.
"A Corot. He was a famous French artist. That was father's favorite picture." "Sho! Well, I like it fust-rate myself. Did 'Bije did your father know this Mr. Corot well?" "Know him? Certainly not. Why should you think such a thing as that?" "Well, he bought the picture of him, and so I s'pose likely he knew him.
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