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While Ralph was wondering what on earth his aunt, whom he had never seen before, could want to say to him at such an hour, the talking in the other room died away, and was succeeded soon by a resonant snoring, that denoted Mr. Dopples' prompt obedience to his wife's last command. Shortly thereafter she swept softly into the boy's room, wrapped in a shawl and seated herself at his side.
Don't you know me yet?" Ralph murmured a low negative. "Well, then, I'll tell you I'm " A sound of feet striking the floor heavily was heard from one of the other rooms, and was followed by the voice of Mr. Dopples, calling out: "Tildy! Oh, Tildy! Where be ye, Tildy?" Ralph Continues His Journey. The form at Ralph's bedside grasped his hand again in a warning pressure. "Keep quiet," it said.
He ran ever so far, then all at once he was with Jase just as if he had been with him all the time. "I haven't got no money," he said sorrowfully. "Never mind," replied Vaughn. "You run home. Poor fellow; I'm sorry for you." Much perplexed, he kept on until he stood before his grandfather's cabin. He thought his Aunt Dopples was there, with her eyes red with weeping.
"A man by the name of Dopples, who married one of my kin folks." "Tildy Dopples a relative of yours?" The captain appeared surprised. Ralph, feeling that he was in for it, boldly told who and what he was, omitting any allusion to the feud, however. As he continued, the captain, who had been pondering as he listened, suddenly scowled.
I've heard it said that folks with plenty of money can do 'most anything in the city." "Well, aunt, I'm much obliged to you for letting me know. If I strike Columbia, and meet up with Captain Shard, I shall certainly remember what you say." "Good night, then. Don't tell Dopples what I've said. He's a thinkin' the world of Shard. I like him, too; but then he don't know I'm a Granger, I reckon."
"Amen," muttered the lad heartily. "But what I wanted to let you know was about this Captain Shard, as Dopples wants you to go and see. My man never quarrels with nobody bless his old soul! Therefore, he never 'spicious that any of his friends would want to, either. There's where he is wrong." "Yes; but I don't see how that can apply to Captain Shard, whom I never heard of before."
I like Dopples; would do nearly anything for him I could. His wife was always rather distant. If she is a Granger that accounts for it." "She told me you might not like me if you knew who I was, but I I am so sick of that useless old feud, that I thought you might not remember it against me. Down here it seems as if you have too much else to think of to be always wanting to shoot somebody."
"Sounds mighty nice almost too nice," thought Ralph, who was shrewd enough to wonder why Shard whom he had been warned against should put himself out to serve a Granger. "Perhaps he is sick of the feud, like me. I'm sure I would do him a favor, if he is half a Vaughn. By granny! I believe I will take him up. Aunt Dopples don't know everything."
"He'll help you out." "I may see Shard," thought Ralph; "but I'll be careful how he sees me. I'm going to get out of the range of this feud if I have to travel clear to the seacoast." As he had a lunch along given him by Mrs. Dopples he did not stop anywhere for dinner, but trudged resolutely on at a three mile an hour gait.
Two window sash of unusual size attracted the lad's attention. "Those are my skylights," said Quigg. "You might polish them up a bit after we leave Hendersonville. That is, if you are going on further." Ralph had no definite idea as to where he wanted to go, except that he thought of Captain Shard. Regardless of Mrs. Dopples' warning, he now said that he had a notion of going on to Columbia.
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