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No, Capting, the savagers hain't been out hyar, an' ain't a-goin' to be. An' I weesh, now," he continues, glancing up to the sky, "I weesh 't wud brighten a bit. Wi' thet fog hidin' the hills over yonder, 'tain't possybul to gie a guess az to whar we air. Ef it ud lift, I mout be able to make out some o' the landmarks. Let's hope we may hev a cl'ar sky the morrer, an' a glimp' o' the sun to boot."
"I reckon it's about right," replied Godfrey. "I had this fur a hidin' place while the Yanks was a scoutin' about through the country, an' I come here now kase nobody won't think of lookin' fur me so nigh the settlement. An' they won't stumble onto me afore I know it, nuther. They can't git to me if they come afoot kase the bayou'll stop 'em; an' I never heard of nobody coming up here in a boat.
I duly got up, and with the best composure I could muster looked him in the face. 'You're mistaken, my friend. I never clapped eyes on you before, and I never was in Glasgow in my life. 'That's a damned lee, said the Fusilier. 'Ye're the man, and if ye're no, ye're like enough him to need a hidin'! 'Confound your nonsense! I said.
"There's a man on board we want a Philadelphia burglar called 'Pinky' McGuire. There he is on the back seat. Look out for the side, Donovan." Donovan went to the hind wheel and looked up at James Williams. "Come down, old sport," he said, pleasantly. "We've got you. Back to Sleepytown for yours. It ain't a bad idea, hidin' on a Rubberneck, though. I'll remember that."
"Don't be so snappish," said Solomon. Turning to the Captain he added: "Don't ye see here's the big spring. This 'ere man could blister a bull's heel by talkin' to it. He's hidin' his candle. This ain't no job fer him. I say he orto be promoted." With an outburst still profane but distinctly milder the cook wished to know what they meant.
"Drive her away! the best friend we've ever had!" "You been hidin' these here books for him!" Barber went on, his head still out of the window, so that much of what Cis was saying was lost upon him. "Ja! Ja! Ja! Ja!" "Don't y' yaw me!" But Mrs. Kukor's window had gone down. Now every other window in the neighborhood was up, though the dwellers round about were hidden from sight.
And when I found that the man who killed him, Lance Harriott, had been hidin' here, had been sendin' spies all around to find out all about your son, had been foolin' you, and tryin' to ruin your gal as he had killed your boy, I knew that he knew it too." The door fell in with a crash.
"My poor young lady, you must forgive me for disappointing you, and hidin' the truth, for your own sake. May God bless and restore you, and bring you to a proper sense of his mercies, is the prayer of your servant to command, JOSEPH VAN DORNE."
For a few seconds they lay close while the enemy rushed past like a torrent, to the assault just described. Then Moses uprose, with an expression of stern resolve on his usually meek countenance. "Simkin," he said, as his comrade also got up, "I'm not goin' to lie hidin' here while our boys are engaged wi' the savages."
"I tell ye, Preston, I gotter take that boy back to Logwood with me," shouted Blent, who seemed greatly excited. "Where are you hidin' the rascal?" "You know very well I came over with you in the boat and walked up here with you, Blent," growled the foreman, in some anger. "How could I hide him?" "But the cook, nor nobody, knows what's become of him.
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