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Updated: June 21, 2025
Looking for its effect, I saw Euonymus trying to swim and Charmer quitting the chase. But the young dog kept on. The current was carrying Euonymus away. Twice through vines and brush, while I cried: "Catch the fallen tree below you! Catch the tree!" I tried to spur my horse down into the stream, and on the third trial I succeeded. The flood had cut the bank from under a great buttonwood.
At the same time his fellows came about us, while on the farther bank Luke helped his wife writhe up through the waterside vines, and with her disappeared. Only Euonymus remained in the water, at the far edge of the gravel-bar. I was so happy that I laughed. "All right," I cried, "I'll pay for the revolver."
Could you drive my coach, Euonymus?" "What, me, mist'ess? Why, eh, o' co'se I kin drive some, but " The soft, honest eyes, seeking Robelia's, betrayed a mental conflict. I guessed there were more than two runaways, and that Euonymus was debating whether for Robelia's sake to go with me and leave the others behind, or not. "You kin drive de coach," blurted the one-ideaed Robelia.
Not dreaming that they would keep their hold till I could get there, I leaped down in the shoal to fire; but the grip held, though the dog's teeth sank into legs and arms, and all at once Euonymus straightened to full stature, lifting the dog till his hind legs could but just tiptoe the ground. "Right!" I cried; "bully, my boy! Lift him one inch higher and he's whipped!"
The dawn was hardly yet pink, and the light from the sandbank was not yet extinguished. But the bushes of euonymus against the white palings of the front garden could be seen, also the light surface of the road winding away like a riband to the north entrance of Sylvania Castle, thence round to the village, the cliffs, and the Cove behind.
Ah! take him, my lady!" We saw that Euonymus could not swim. Still knee to knee with Hardy, I drew and fired. "Puppy's" mate yelped and rolled over, dead. "Call them back," I said, holding my weapon high; but Hardy only shrieked curses and cried: "Take the nigger, Charmer, take him!" I fired again. Poor Dandy! He sprang aside howling piteously, with melting eyes on his master.
And so we went, not through the town but around it. My attendants were heavy with sleep. Seating Rebecca next me I called Euonymus into the coach and let mother, son, and daughter slumber at ease. To the few persons we met I paraded my bonnet and curls. Some, in Southern fashion, I questioned. I was a widow who had sold her plantation in order to go and live with a widowed brother.
But when I looked again at the absurd Robelia I saw I must help both alike. "Euonymus, did you ever drive a lady's coach?" "Me? No'm, I never drove no lady's coach." "Well, boy, I'm travelling in my own outfit." "Yass'm." "But I hire a new driver and span at each town and send the others back." "Yass'm," said Euonymus. Robelia came nearer.
Both messengers were on the box. Euonymus passed me my bundle of stuff. The coach turned round. Bidding Euonymus stay on the box I had Rebecca and Robelia take the front seat inside. Following in I remarked: "Good boy, that of yours, Luke." Luke bowed so reverently that I saw Euonymus's belief in me was not his alone.
"Keep silent," put in Euonymus, "an' see de counsel o' de Lawd ovehcome." Luke went. I pencilled another note. It requested my landlady to give Euonymus a hat, boots, and suit from my armoire and speed him back all she could. Rebecca gazed anxiously after this second messenger. Robelia, near by, munched blackberries.
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