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She never wanted to stay in one place, nohow. If she had a crop ha'f made an' somebody made her mad, she'd up an' leave it an' go some'r's else. "You know, dey was mighty strict, 'bout den, wid cullud folks, an' white people, too. De Kloo Kluxes was out nights. I hear'd tell 'bout 'em whuppin' people. But dey never bothered me.
"I didn't have nothin' fer dinner neither," continued the tramp, "an' I'm er gettin' powerful weak." The other thought of his fifteen cents. "Where are you going?" he said shortly. The ragged one jerked his thumb toward the city. "Hear'd as how thar's a right smart o' work yonder and I'm on the hunt fer a job." "What do you do?" "Tendin' mason's my strong-holt.
'Gone with Miss Madge to the Catholic chapel to hear a mass of Mozart's. 'Yes, said Mrs Caffyn. 'I tell them they'll turn Papists if they do not mind. They are always going to that place, and there's no knowing, so I've hear'd, what them priests can do. They aren't like our parsons. Catch that man at Great Oakhurst a-turnin' anybody.
"I hear'd a heap of talk 'bout Jeff Davis an' Abe Lincoln, but didn' know nothin' 'bout 'em. We hear'd 'bout de Yankees fightin' to free us, but we didn' b'lieve it 'til we hear'd 'bout de fightin' at Vicksburg. "I voted de 'publican ticket after de surrender, but I didn' bother wid no politics. I didn' want none of 'em.
'Drat their impudence' said Mrs Greenacre, from whose well-covered bosom all milk of human kindness was receding, as far as the family of the Lookalofts were concerned. 'So says I, said Mrs Guffern; 'and so says my good-man Thomas Guffern, when he hear'd it.
"Well, what matther?" said Barny, "since they wor only blind gunners, an' I knew it; besides, as I said afore, I won't turn out o' my nor-aist coorse for no man." "That's a new turn you tuk lately," said Peter. "What's the raison you're runnin' a nor-aist coorse now, an' we never hear'd iv it afore at all, till afther you quitted the big ship?"
He took to me at wance when he hear'd my voice, and then he took more to me when he corned to know me character; and says he to me wan day, 'Barney, says he, 'I'm gittin' tired o' this kind o' life now, and if ye'll agree to stop here as overseer, and sind me the proceeds o' the mine to Rio Janeiro, a great city on the sea-coast, an' the capital o' Brazil, I'll give ye a good share o' the profits.
"Miss Hendy?" enquired the spinster in breathless anticipation. "Jist so," responded the other "there can't be no mystery no longer, and they'll be off for France in a few days." "For France? gracious! how do you know?" "I hear'd Mr Bristles, which is their confidant, say something about a chay and Dover. In cooss they will go that way to Boulogne."
He took to me at wance when he hear'd my voice, and then he took more to me when he comed to know me character; and says he to me wan day, `Barney, says he, `I'm gittin' tired o' this kind o' life now, and if ye'll agree to stop here as overseer, and sind me the proceeds o' the mine to Rio Janeiro, a great city on the sea-coast an' the capital o' Brazil, I'll give ye a good share o' the profits.
"They git fifteen or twinty a day sometimes," said Barney, as they retraced their steps to the cottage; "and I've hear'd o' them getting stones worth many thousands o' pounds; but the biggest they iver found since I corned here was not worth more than four hundred." "And what do you do with them, Barney, when they are found?" inquired Martin.
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