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Updated: May 17, 2025
Did she take her out o' the sea, as raged like all the devils let loose, and death itself a-hangin' round and fairly howlin' for that child? did she stand on that rock, blind and deef and e'ena'most mazed with the beatin' and roarin' and onearthly screechin' all round, and take that child from its dead mother's breast, and vow to the Lord, as helped in savin' it, to do as should be done by it?
"The Deef Woman has a brief pow-wow with him alone over at the O. K. House, followin' of which the Major appears the whitiest an' the shakiest I ever beholds him the last bein' some strong as a statement an' after beggin' a drink at the Red Light, p'ints out afoot for Red Dog, an' is seen no more.
Aunt Jemima had listened to the racket until she had lost all patience, and at last threw up the basement window: "Go in an' shet dat do' 'fo' I come up dar an' smack ye 'nough ter make a body deef ter hear ye," she called, her black shining face dividing the curtains. "How you know he's a-comin'?"
"Mebbe 'tis a clue. But I reckon it's what them magazine deteckatifs call a blind clue. Haw! haw! haw! An' afore ye git anywhere with it, it'll proberbly go on crutches an' be deef an' dumb inter the bargain!" Massey did not look as though he enjoyed these gibes much. "I'll go down an' see Joe," he grunted. "Mebbe he'll know something about it."
"Say," he cried, his eyes glaring fiercely and embracing the whole party with a great, comprehensive roll, "you fellers is like a crowd o' coyotes around a bone. I 'lows Tresler ain't an a'mighty deal better'n a bone about now, but his lugs ain't deef. Y're jest a gorl-darned lot o' oneddicated hoboes."
Still immovable he stood while the honking car, with brakes on, slid to a stop a few feet away. "What the hell's the matter with you?" the man at the wheel, in a jaunty cap and goggles, cried out, angrily. "You heard me blowin', didn't you?" "I ain't deef," John flashed at him. "I wanted to see what 'the hell' to use your words you'd do about it.
We-alls stands lookin' on. Thar ain't one of us dares crook a finger, for this Pinon Bill is cool an' ca'm plumb through. He's still got the drop on the kid, while he's holdin' baby an' bridle both with the other arm an' hand. His sharp eyes is on the Deef Woman, too. "She springs, but she never makes it.
"Besides, my aunt was a sort of benefactor of mine, she always said I was her fav'rite nephew." "Is she dead?" "Died seven year ago this spring, while I was in New Orleans. She left me her second best ear-trumpet, she was deef as a post. She had two of 'em. One was a rubber toob sort of thing, pretty nigh four foot long. She only used that on Sundays, an' when the minister called.
I don't believe it's got any right to be around in the daytime. But don't it look natural! Jake was going to play deef and dumb here, so the neighbors wouldn't know his voice. Do you reckon it would do that if we was to holler at it?" "Lordy, Tom, don't talk so! If you was to holler at it I'd die in my tracks." "Don't you worry, I ain't going to holler at it.
Lawsy me, I seed a deef an' dumb woman in town t'other day, and, for a wonder, she wasn't married, nur never had been! I jest looked at that woman an' my mouth fairly watered." "Yo're a born fool," snorted Mrs. Slogan. "What's that got to do with John Wester " "Sh " broke in Mrs. Dawson. "I heer Sally a-comin'."
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