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Primus accordingly called upon Gladding, and the arrangement must have been satisfactory, for the three were all at the place of rendezvous at the appointed hour. "All these tales told in that dreamy undertone with which men talk in the dark, the countenances of the listeners only now and then receiving a casual gleam from the glare of a pipe, sunk deep in the mind of Ichabod."
"But, Missa Gladding, you promise to stand by me if dis scrape go any furder." "Sartainly," answered Tom, "I never left a friend in the lurch, I tell you." "Gib us you hand on dat." Tom extended a great sledge-hammer fist, and the two shook hands in sign of inviolable fidelity. "Now," said Tom, "I guess, I'll make myself scarce.
"You do not seem to set much value on my judgment, Gladding. Perhaps, I have objects you do not see."
On the bed sprawled young Joe Hagland, listlessly turning the pages of the exhausted magazine. The only contented figure was that of Sam Gladding, the cook, a boyish figure sleeping peacefully on the floor in the corner. He had to get up early. It was a typical Northern interior: log walls with caked mud in the interstices, a floor of split poles, and roof of poles thatched with sods.
"If Missa Basset trow de paper away, I 'spose he don't want him, and he ain't good for noting, and nobody can find fault wid me for burning up a little piece ob waste paper, just to kindle de fire," said Primus, throwing the warrant into the flames, where it was immediately consumed. "There, we've drawn Basset's eye-teeth now," said Gladding. "Holden's as safe as you or me.
Basset started, and strained his eyes through the darkness in the direction indicated, but could discover nothing. The vision of Primus and Gladding was better. "Don't ye see someting," said the former, lowering his voice, "right under de bank. I can't just see de shape, but it seem as if it swim in de air widout legs. You eyes is younger, Missa Gladding; guess dey see furder dan mine."
"But, perhaps he wasn't in the house at all," persisted Basset; "it was plaguy dark, and perhaps he heard us coming and hid himself outside on purpose to play the trick and take an unfair advantage on us." "You'll never make me believe that story," said Gladding, shaking his head. "I'd as soon believe it was me as the old man.
"I hear it is for profane speaking and reviling," answered Davenport. "If everybody was to have his desarts," said our friend, Tom Gladding, squirting a stream of tobacco juice over the floor, "I guess, some others would be worse off," and he looked sharply at Davenport. "It is time such things should be punished," said Davenport. "People begin to act as if there was no law in the country."
Here the squire paused, and looked round to see what impression he was making on his audience, and the momentary silence was taken advantage of by Gladding to observe: "That Pond's a mean cuss." The justice took no further notice of honest Tom's not very complimentary remark than to cast at him a look of angry surprise, which the other endured with complete indifference.
Celia. Here comes Monsieur Le Beau, Rosalind. With his mouth full of news. "You strike dreadful hard, Missa Gladding. If you can't write, I guess you can make you mark," said the General, rubbing his shoulders. "I was larned to do one, and t'other come natural," said Tom, laughing; "but I didn't lay it on a bit too hard.
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