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Ezy Black Donald and his men are lurking up at the house," said our young heroine, commencing in an eager and hurried voice, and giving the overseer an account of the manner in which she had discovered the presence of the robbers, and left the room without alarming them. The old man heard with many cries of astonishment, ejaculations of prayer, and exclamations of thanksgiving.
Ezy to rouse up and arm the farm hands and come immediately to the house! I am in agony lest my prolonged absence should excite the robbers' suspicion of my ruse, and that they should break out and perhaps murder poor Mrs. Condiment. Her situation is awful, if she did but know it! For the love of mercy, hasten!" Not an instant more of time was lost. Mr.
The student had not limited the power of the cross; but Tess had discovered its limitations in Ezra Longman's statement limitations that made her quiver with pain, as she pictured the evil thing which darkly menaced her loved one. "He air a damn liar," burst forth Jake Brewer, "the jedge ain't said no words what Ezy says he has." Tessibel heard and understood.
They were then set upon and bound with strong ropes brought for the purpose by Mr. Ezy. When they were thus secured, hand and foot, Capitola, who had been a spectator of the whole scene, and exposed as much as any other to the rattle of the bullets, now approached and looked at the vanquished.
But to Ezra, Ben, and Professor Young she had told the truth. The weakness of the squatter as he sat on the floor, panting for breath, aroused Tessibel's sympathy, and she proffered him a cup of little Dan's milk. "Drink it," she commanded, "and then scoot to yer mammy. And and ye needn't say as how I air a-carin' for another woman's brat, will ye, Ezy?"
"Orn's face were yaller'n saffron, wern't it, when Minister Graves said as how he were a cussed pap of a cusseder gal," said Ezy Longman to Jake Brewer and Ben Letts. "He were that mad," agreed Letts, "that the humps on his back just riz up and down he were that mad he were." "But it were screechin' funny when the jedge made the parson speak out what Tess done," laughed Jake Brewer.
After breakfast Old Hurricane took his great-coat and old cocked hat and stormed forth upon the plantation to blow up his lazy overseer, Mr. Will Ezy, and his idle negroes, who had loitered or frolicked away all the days of their master's absence. Mrs. Condiment went away to mix a plum pudding for dinner, and Cap was left alone.
During these two days of coolness and enforced quietude Old Hurricane had gathered a store of bad humors that required expenditure. So the very next day something went wrong upon the farm, and Old Hurricane came storming home, driving his overseer, poor, old, meek Billy Ezy, and his man Wool before him.
It weren't Orn Skinner." "Who were a-sayin' it were Ben?" demanded Myra, her mouth hard and lined. "I says it," replied Ezy. "I seed him when he done it, and I comed to tell ye, and to see Mammy and Satisfied." "Then come in, and go to bed, for ye be sick."
Ezy and Herbert Greyson, accompanied by Capitola and Patty, hurried at once to the negro quarters, roused up and armed the men with whatever was at hand, and, enjoining them to be as stealthy as cats in their approach, set out swiftly for the Hall, where they soon arrived.
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