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Updated: May 24, 2025
There was just a chance that she had not yet left the plantation. But the bayou levee was deserted. And the post where Sam's boat was usually moored was bare of rope; the boat was gone. Of course Sam Two might have taken it across the stream to the farm. That hope was extinguished as the small brown boy came out of the bushes along the stream side. "Sam, have you seen Miss 'Chanda?" Val demanded.
"Alas," sighed Gowhar Jan, "she will never be like Chanda Malika, gay, witty and famous for generations; her education has been wasted, and her name will die!" But Imtiazan only pouted and answered; "I care not to throw good saffron before asses!" Then Fate cast the die.
"Pay fo'!" Lucy's indignant sniff reduced him to his extremely unimportant place. "We's not talkin' 'bout pay workin', Mistuh Ralestone. Letty-Lou don' git no pay but her eatments. 'Co'se, effen Miss 'Chanda wanna give her some ole clo's now an' den, she kin tak' dem.
"Mistuh Ralestone, suh," Letty-Lou, standing half-way up the back stairs, addressed Rupert, "lunch am on de table. Effen yo'all doan come now, de eatments will be spiled." "All right," he answered. "Letty-Lou," called Ricky, "put on another plate. Miss Charity is staying to lunch." "Dat's all ri', Miss 'Chanda. I'se done done dat. Yo'all comin' now?"
Well, the surprise he had promised Ricky might cover the problem. As he reached for a certain black note-book, someone knocked on his door. "Mistuh Val, wheah's Miss 'Chanda? She ain't up heah an' Ah wan's to " Lucy stood in the hall. The light from the round window was reflected from every corrugated wave of her painfully marcelled hair.
"Miss 'Chanda!" Sam Two, as they had come to call Sam's eldest son and heir, was standing on the lowest step of the terrace, holding a small covered basket in his hands. "Yes?" "Letty-Lou done say dis am fo' yo'all, Miss 'Chanda." "For me?" Ricky looked at the offering in surprise. "But what in the world Bring it here, Sam." "Yas'm." He laid the basket in Ricky's outstretched hands.
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