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Questioned as to Dave's whereabouts, she embarked on a lengthy stuttered explanation of how Dave had dode round there pointing to the clay heap to det some of the new mud the men had spoyded up with their spoyds. She reproduced his words, of course.
But Bone learns something from them in exchange. He does not boast so often now of being "ole Mars' Joe's man," sits and thinks profoundly, till he goes to sleep. "Not of leavin' yer, Mist' Dode, I know what free darkies is, up dar; but dar's somefin' in a fellah's 'longin' ter hisself, af'er all!" Dode only smiles at his deep cogitations, as he weeds the garden-beds, or fodders the stock.
She rose at last, with the truth, as Gaunt had taught it to her, full before her, that it would be crime to make compact with sin or a sinner. She went out on the porch, looking no longer to the road, but up to the uncertain sky. Poor, simple Dode! So long she had hid the thought of this man in her woman's breast, clung to it for all strength, all tenderness! It stood up now before her, Evil.
But he did stop at the tavern, and there drank some brandy to steady his nerves; and he did not forget that there was an ambuscade of Rebels at Blue's Gap, and that he was to share in the attack on them at daylight: he spurred his horse, as he drew nearer Romney. Dode, being a woman, thinking love lost, sat by the fire, looking vacantly at nothing.
"So, while Teddy was down at the corral, Dode and I sat down to develop some snapshots. We never looked out at all! After we had a lot of pictures ready to show on your return, we heard a noise outside and thought Teddy had come back." "And there is when we got it!" Dode cut in. "Yes, there, is where we got it in the neck," Oliver went on, while Teddy grinned.
"Why, Gaunt!" said Palmer, "what are you doing in the cold? Come to the fire, boy!" He could afford to speak cordially, heartily, out of the great warmth in big own breast. Theodora was heaping shavings on the ashes. Gaunt took them from her. "Let me do it," he muttered. "I'd like to make your whole life warm, Dode, your life, and any one's you love." Dode's face flushed with a happy smile.
Then she turned into the house, with no thought to spare for the man watching her all this while with hungry eyes. The moon, drifting from behind a cloud, threw a sharp light on her figure, as she stood in the door-way. "Dode!" he said. "Good bye, Dode!" She shook hands, saying nothing, then went in, and shut the door.
Dode shut the door. Outside lay the winter's night, snow, death, the war. She shivered, shut them out. None of her nerves enjoyed pain, as some women's do. Inside, you call it cheap and mean, this room? Yet her father called it Dode's snuggery; he thought no little nest in the world was so clean and warm.
Teddy said, flushing, to Ned, as Jack and Jimmie, followed by the cheers and good wishes of their chums, started away. "Aw, it wasn't Teddy's fault at all," Oliver declared. "He went down to tell Uncle Ike what a gentleman and a scholar he was, and I was supposed to watch the tent." "And I was to help him," wailed Dode. "See how well I did it!" He swung a hand around at the mess on the ground.
Ned asked Dode, as he pulled at his sleeve. "There's another door," the lad explained. "It opens on the slope on the west side of the ridge we are under. We can go that way without being seen." "That's just the thing!" Jimmie exclaimed. "We can get out and join Frank in the mess outside! Then I reckon we'll put the skids under the outlaws!"
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