Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 11, 2025
Terry watched me a moment without saying anything, and then he too shrugged his shoulders as he turned back to the newspaper clippings. "I won't go into the matter of Radnor's connection with the ha'nt just now; I should like to consider first his actions on the day of the murder. I have here a report of the testimony taken at the inquest, but it is not so full as I could wish in some particulars.
But it seems to me, `to return to the practical' as I've heard the poor old skipper say that we might as well haul up on our course ag'in now; and I'll go and look after the dinner; for I shall be afraid to go to sleep ag'in for the next fortnight; that blamed old sarpent 'll ha'nt me like a nightmare now, if I so much as shut my eyes for five minutes."
En sometimes, w'en night would come, de niggers useter heah him howlin' en howlin' down dere, des fittin' ter break his hea't. En den some mo' un 'em said dey seed Mahaly's ha'nt dere 'bun'ance er times, colloguin' wid dis gray wolf.
Failing that, they plan to get in here, when you're asleep. All this lad can tell them is that you are on your guard, and that there are enough of us to hold the house against any possible rush. He can also tell them," pursued Gavin, dropping back into his slowly solemn diction, "about this devil this ha'nt that serves us, and of the curse the voodoo he can put on them all if they try to harm us.
"Just at present they are not so deserted as we should like," he returned with a suggestive undertone in his voice. "You visit the plantation at an interesting time. The Gaylord ha'nt has reappeared." "The Gaylord ha'nt!" I exclaimed in astonishment. "What on earth is that?" Radnor laughed.
So he say' to li'l' black Mose: "'Tain' likely you met up wid a monstrous big ha'nt whut live' down de lane whut he name Bloody Bones?" "Yas," say' li'l' black Mose, "I done met up wid him." "An' did old Bloody Bones done tol' you dey ain' no ghosts?" say Zack Badget. "Yas," say' li'l' black Mose, "he done tell me perzackly dat."
He dashed across from the cook-tent to the woods, and then back again. The boys all urged him on. The girls ran together in a frightened group, Lil moaning: "Oh, he's here again! that dreadful man is here again!" "Hush you!" commanded Liz, in disgust. "'Tain't no man. 'Tain't even a ha'nt. I seen it. It's a black and white kitten " "Oh, Chet! call him off! call him off!" begged Laura.
This ended the hearing for the day, and the inquest was postponed until ten o'clock the following morning. So far, no word had been dropped touching the ha'nt, but I was filled with apprehension as to what the next day would bring forth. I knew that if the subject came up, it would end once for all Radnor's chances of escaping trial before the grand jury.
He was rather coy at first about discussing the matter of the ha'nt, as he scented my scepticism, but in the end he volunteered: "Some says de ha'nt's a woman dat one o' de Gaylords long time ago, should o' married an' didn't, an' dat pined away an' died. An' some says it's a black man one o' dem whupped to deaf." "Which do you think it is?" I inquired.
So, then, what you want to come back and ha'nt ME for?" I says: "I hain't come back I hain't been GONE." When he heard my voice it righted him up some, but he warn't quite satisfied yet. He says: "Don't you play nothing on me, because I wouldn't on you. Honest injun, you ain't a ghost?" "Honest injun, I ain't," I says.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking