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"But it's no place for a woman," my uncle was urging, gravely. "I ain't a woman, I'm a cook. You want cooks if you eats. Mat ain't a woman, she's a girl. But she's stronger 'n Beverly. If you can't leave him, how can you leave her? An' Gail never get well if he's left here, Cla'n'den, now he's got the goin' fever. Never! An' if you never got back " "I don't believe he would get well, either."
I asked, eagerly; for although she could neither read nor write, she had a sponge-like absorbing power for keeping posted on all that happened at the fort. "Cla'n'den" the woman never called my uncle by any other name "he's goin' to Santy Fee, an' you boys with him, 'cause " She paused and her shining eyes grew dull as they had a way of doing in her thoughtful or prophetic moments.
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