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They drove up at one in the afternoon in a rather antiquated vehicle with a faded coat of arms on the panels, an aged white-wooled negro coachman on the box and a younger darkey beside him the footman. Both of these servants were dressed in dull brown livery that had seen considerable service.
He took a hasty leave of his shipmates, hired a darkey to carry his luggage to the depot, and was in time to purchase his ticket for a train that was on the point of leaving for Goldsborough. He had hardly settled himself in his seat before he became aware that nearly all the passengers in the car were looking at him, and finally one of them came and seated himself by his side.
Around on the floor, on two sides of the apartment, lay heaps of garments of all incongruous descriptions, from the court dress of King Charles' time to the tow and homespun of the Southern darkey, as if just tumbled over for examination.
"Ephum" cried the Colonel, diving toward a counter where glasses were set out, a custom new to Eliphalet, "Ephum, some of that very particular Colonel Crittenden sent me over from Kentucky last week." An old darkey, with hair as white as the Colonel's, appeared from behind the partition.
When he had been gone four days and no message from him had come, Miss Ann was plainly a little uneasy about the old man. "You ain't called on to be worried," said Mrs. Buck. "That old man can take care of himself all right. I must say I never expected the time to come when I'd confess to missing a darkey, but Uncle Billy is a heap of help around the place.
"Den we are ready to start," declared the darkey, solemnly. "Nottin' will now disturb de continuity ob de ebenin's enj'yment. Forward, march, is our motter!" And he marched away to the flying machine and got aboard with the coop and Buttsy in his arms. The professor had found the last of his possessions he wished to take with him. He followed the negro aboard.
Miss Schuyler, in her cool gray suit, was on one side of him, and Lisa, looking tranquil and thoroughly glad and grateful, on the other, and Joe, just the happiest darkey in the world, sat at his feet, ready to take charge of all and everything.
The weight of the young negro was a serious encumbrance in a weary journey through what seemed to be a burning plain; moreover, the "darkey", in keeping its seat on the young Scotchman's shoulders, had pulled a quantity of hair out of his head, besides rendering his scalp exceedingly irritable to further treatment of a like kind.
You too, Phin Striker. I'll call ye when the table's set. Now, you go an' set over there in the corner, away from the window, deary, where the lightnin' can't git at you, an' You'll find a comb on the mantel-piece, Mr. Gwynne, an' Phineas will git you a boot-jack out o' the bedroom if that darkey is too weak to pull your boots off for you.
"The whole world is done rockin' ergain!" wailed the darkey. "Dis is de end ob de finish!" The vibrations of the ground grew in strength. The air about them seemed to shake. The darkness was so intense that Jack, holding a shaking hand before his face, could not distinguish its outline.
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