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There was a rush, a crackle, and a still louder shout. Both turned and saw a tongue of red flame with a black, sooty tip leap suddenly skyward. The great mass of naval stores was fired, and no power on earth could save a barrel of them now. Desmit staggered to the nearest tree, and faint and trembling watched the flame. How it raged!
"Has no other complaint been lodged against Colonel Desmit?" "None." "We cannot that is we did not expect this," said the attorney, and then after a whispered consultation with his client, he added, "We are quite willing to make this matter right. We had entirely misunderstood the nature of the complaint."
Such was its well-established reputation for poverty of soil that Desmit had no idea that the purchaser would ever be able to meet one of his notes for the balance of the purchase money, and he looked forward to resuming the control of the property at no distant day, somewhat improved by the betterments which occupancy and attempted use would compel the purchaser to make.
"Hooray!" said the first. "A bonfire!" "Hurry! hurry!" Desmit cried to his guide. "Come on thin, auld gintleman. It's mesilf that'll not go back on a man that furnishes a good dhram for so joyful an occasion." They dismounted, and, pressing their way through the surging mass on the bridge, approached the group under the pines.
So Eliab read, to a circle whose cheeks were gray with pallor, and whose eyes glanced quickly at each other with affright, these words "ELIAB HILL AND NIMBUS DESMIT: You've been warned twice, and it hain't done no good. This is your last chance. If you don't git up and git out of here inside of ten days, the buzzards will have a bait that's been right scarce since the war.
"I tole him, 'Yes, sah, an' comes on home an' gibs dat ter Marse Si. Quick ez he look at it he say, 'Whar you git dat, boy? 'An' when I tole him he sez, 'You know who dat is? Dat's old Potem Desmit! What you say to him, you little fool? "Den I tell Marse War' all 'bout it, an' he lay down in de yard an' larf fit ter kill.
"Well, then, that's yours, ain't it your surname Nimbus Desmit?" "Reckon not, Mahs'r." "No? Why not?" "Same reason his name ain't Nimbus, I s'pose." "Well," said the officer, laughing, "there may be something in that; but a soldier must have two names. Suppose I call you George Nimbus?" "Yer kin call me jes' what yer choose, sah; but my name's Nimbus all the same.
Indeed, blows were rarely stricken on the plantations of Colonel Desmit; for while he required work, obedience, and discipline, he also fed well and clothed warmly, and allowed no overseer to use the lash for his own gratification, or except for good cause. It was well known that nothing would more surely secure dismissal from his service than the free use of the whip.
And so the record was made up in the brass-clasped book of Colonel Potestatem Desmit, the only baptismal register of the colored man who twenty-six years afterward was wondering at the names which were seeking him against his will. 697 Nimbus of Lorency Male April 24th, 1840 Sound Knapp-of-Reeds. It was a queer baptismal entry, but a slave needed no more indeed did not need that.
"Didn't they tell you you'd be worse off with the Yankees than you were with them?" "Yes, sah." "Didn't you believe them?" "Dunno, sah." "What do you want to do?" "Anything." "Fight the rebs?" "Wal, I kin du it." "What's your name?" "Nimbus." "Nimbus? Good name ha! ha: what else?" "Nuffin' else." "Nothing else? What was your old master's name?" "Desmit Potem Desmit."
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