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He had been with them, here, yonder, all day. Barbara remained at home, although her gowns were the full length now, and she coiled her hair. General Halliday and Fannie arrived. Her dress, they said, was the prettiest in the room. Jeff-Jack introduced everybody to the Northerners.
I got it from the girls who put you to bed that night. But no one else knows it and they'll never tell. John," Fannie pushed her gaiter's tip with her parasol, "guess who was here all last evening, smoking the pipe of peace with pop." "Jeff-Jack?" "I mean besides him. Brother Garnet! John, what is that man mostly, fox or goose?" "Oh, now, Miss Fannie, you're unjust! You're you're partisan!" "Hmm!
"Brother Tombs," cried Garnet, walking majestically after him, "for Heaven's sake, stop! you can't prevent anything that way." But the old man ran on. Champion, with a curse at himself for having only a knife and a derringer, flew up a stair and into the Courier office. "Lend me something to shoot with, Jeff-Jack, the Yahoos are after John March."
"You need two thumbs to tie those leather strings, Jeff-Jack." Jeff-Jack had lost one, more than a year before, in a murderous onslaught where the Major and he had saved each other's lives, turn about, in almost the same moment. But the knot was tied, and they started on.
He still smilingly held out the keys. Fannie sat still. She tried to smile but turned very pale. "Jeff-Jack," she gasped, "you can't go. I beg you, don't try. I beg you, Jeff-Jack." "Got to, Fannie." He sat up in the bed. John thrust a pillow behind him. "Well, I " her bloodless lips twitched painfully "I can't let you go. The doctor says he mustn't, John." Ravenel smiled on. "Got to, Fannie.
It was a double surprise for him to see, first, with what courtesy they treated the blue-coat, and then how soon they bade him good-day. The Federal had smilingly shown a flask. "You wouldn't fire on a flag of truce, would you?" "I never drink," said Garnet. "And I always take too much," responded Jeff-Jack. I think we have spoken of John's slumbers being dreamless.
As he took her on his knee she asked, carelessly: "Did you ever notice I'm dot socks on to-day?" and when he cried "No!" and stroked them, she silently applauded her own tact. Virginia and her mistress decided that the supper would have to be totally reconsidered reconstructed. Jeff-Jack and Barbara, the reticule on her arm, walked in the grove where the trees were few.
"I'm a hopeless fool," he thought, "a fool in anger, a fool in love. A fool even in the eyes of that idiot of a railroad president in yonder smirking around Fannie. "They'll laugh at me together, I suppose. O, Fannie, why can't I give you up? I know you're a flirt. Jeff-Jack knows it. I solemnly believe that's why he doesn't ask you to marry him! "Yes, they're probably all laughing at me by now.
March's reply was cut short by a voice behind him, which said: "You can have the Courier's permission." As John wheeled about, Jeff-Jack came a step forward and Barbara Garnet shrank against a window. "Well, Miss Garnet," laughed March, as Ravenel conversed with Halliday, "I was absorbed, wa'n't I? You and Miss Fannie going to watch the old year out and the new year in to-night?"
Proudfit laughed with manly glee, and offered no other interruption. "Well, seh, then it come Jeff-Jack's turn to keep his word the best he could." "Which he's done," said Gamble. "Yes, Jeff-Jack got still anotheh bill brought in an' paassed. It give the three thousan' to Rosemont entieh, an' authorized the three counties to raise the fifteen hund'ed a year by county tax." The Captain laughed.
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