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"No, an' me man don't. He's new, an' they dar'sn't trust him. It was in the back room, he says, they picked 'em out." Tom stood for some moments in deep thought, gazing at the fire, her arms akimbo. Then, wheeling suddenly, she opened the door of the sitting-room, and said in a firm, resolute voice: "Gran'pop, come here; I want ye."
"Tell me all about it, and don't shout. What's come to the boy?" she demanded, in a tone that reduced Joe to a whisper at once. "Go right back and see what has happened to him, then come and tell me quietly. I'll wait for you here. I wouldn't have his mother startled for the world," said the good soul, when she knew all. "Oh, I dar'sn't!
"Howsomever, I reckon ye're kinderly skeered thet I'd mek ye think too towerin' much of me. I reckon ye dar'sn't trust yoreself." Alexander looked at him, and for all her attempted severity she could not keep the twinkle out of her own pupils. If she had not succeeded in driving Halloway away, why should she stand out for the subterfuge of banishing Jerry?
He couldn't use it, and dar'sn't keep it; so he used to bury it in spots round here and there in the awfullest heathen way ye ever heard of. Why, they say he allers used to kill one or two men or women or children of his prisoners, and bury with it, so that their sperits might keep watch on it ef anybody was to dig arter it.
He waited a moment, and, realizing his mistake, turned the conversation in another direction. "And how about those rough fellows around the wharves those who don't know you are they never coarse and brutal to you?" "Not when I look 'em in the face," she answered slowly and deliberately. "No man ever opens his head, nor dar'sn't.
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