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When she was alone with her mother, she said abruptly, "We aint a-goin' to stay here long, nuther." "Why not?" was the sharp, responsive query. "'Cause the same look's comin' into his face that was in Cousin Lemuel's and Cousin Abiram's and all the rest of 'em. 'Fi's you I'd keep still now. 'Pears to me they all want you to keep still and you won't." "Jane," said Mrs.
"Oh, yes!" said Jane contemptuously; "run right to her to find out somethin' as plain as the nose on her face, and run right by the man that was threatenin' her and you too." Wheeling round, he asked, "Where is he?" "I know, but I won't say 'nuther word till you stop goin' on. 'Fi's a man I'd find out what to do 'fore I did anythin'."
She felt that the proper course for her at this juncture was a fit of violent hysterics; but a prompt douche from the water pitcher, administered by the unsympathetic Jane, effectually checked the first symptoms. "Was ever a respecterble woman " "You aint respectable," interrupted the girl, as she departed. "You look like a scarecrow. 'Fi's you I'd begin to show some sense now."
'Fi's a man I wouldn't act like a mad bull. I'd find out how to get ahead of t'other man." "Well," said Holcroft, in a voice that frightened the child, "she said she wouldn't run away with this scoundrel of course not but you say she's going to leave. She'll meet him somewhere good God! But how should you understand? Come, let me get home!"
"You're afraid 'fi's here mother'd come a-visitin," said the girl keenly. "You're too young to understand half the trouble that might follow. My plans are too uncertain for me to tangle myself up. You and your mother must go away at once, so I can do what I must do before it's too late in the season.
He always used to look so when mother went for 'im and hung around 'im. At last he cleared mother out, and just before he looked as black as he did when he passed the house while ago. You're good to me, an' I'd like you to stay. 'Fi's you I'd leave 'im alone." "Jane," said Alida coldly, "I don't wish you ever to speak to me of such things again," and she hastily left the room.
Holcroft, I'd go the whole figure, 'fi's you. If you'd 'a' seen him a-thrashin' that scamp you'd know he's the man to take care of you." "Yes, Jane, I know. He'll take care of me always." The next morning Holcroft and Alida drove to town and went to the church which she and her mother used to attend.
I'd keep my mouth shut and my eyes open. I'd see what he wanted and do it, even 'fore he spoke. 'Fi's big anuf I bet I could hook a man quicker'n she can by usin' her tongue 'stead of her hands." Jane's scheme was not so bad a one but that it might be tried to advantage by those so disposed.
Now, he is crude, he thinks only of work and accumulating; but when the work is done by a menial female's hands and his mind is more at rest, there will begin to steal in upon him the cravings of his mind. He will see that material things are not all in all." "P'raps he will. I don't half know that you're talkin' about. 'Fi's you, I'd learn to work and do things as he wants 'em.
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