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"I jest kinderly happened ter hev a day off, Alexander," he assured her, "and I 'lowed hit wouldn't hurt none fer me ter come along es far es ther railroad train with ye an' tote thet bundle." She gave it over to him, and since the trail there was narrow and thorn-hedged, she strode on ahead of him.
As he rose to take leave of his new acquaintance he said abstractedly: "I'll keep ye posted erbout ther trial when co'te sots so thet afore hit eends up ye'll hev knowledge of what's happenin' an' ef he should chance ter come cla'r, ye'll know ahead of time when he's startin' back home. A man likes ter kinderly keep tabs on a feller he mistrusts." And that was all Bas needed to be told.
"I reckon ef he feels sartin he's got enough ter live fer he kin kinderly holp nature along right lavish." That same day Maggard opened his eyes while the girl was sitting by his bedside. His smile was less dazzling out of a thin, white face, than it had been through the tan of health, but such as it was he flashed it on her gallantly.
Then slowly he declared with the unvarnished candor of the backwoods: "Joe's got all a man needs but jest guts!" The kneeling figure reluctantly nodded her assent. These admissions as to one's nearest and dearest must at times be made between men who face facts. "Ef I passes out, I wants ye ter kinderly look atter him like he ought ter look atter you."
"All right. We knows thet ye come hyar from somewhars else an' we don't know whar from. Because ye're old Caleb's heir, what ye does an' what ye says gets ter be mighty pithy an' pertinent ter us." "I've done come ter kinderly reelize that, myself, hyar of late." "Ye comes from Virginny, folks says; air thet true?" "Thet's true."
"Yes, but ther road didn't do us no great lavish of good 'twell we deevised this hyar thing," her uncle reminded her. "Hit jest kinderly aggravated us. Ye see our fields lays on high ground an' ther railroad runs through a deep chasm. We kain't git down ter hit, nigh es hit be, withouten we teams over slavish ways fer siv'ral steep miles.
With ther flood holdin' up ther mines hit's apt ter kinderly out-do hitself jest now." He paused a moment then capped his prediction with an added detail. "Thar'll be plentiful drunkenness an' harlotry thar. Alexander couldn't speak civil ter me, but I war jest a studyin' erbout how well she's goin' ter like Coal City." When the rafts were safe in the boom.
"We kinderly happens ter be travelin' ther same direction, an' goin' ther same rate, thet's all." "Well don't let hit chanst thet way no more!" Her eyes were flaming now with a blue light like burning alcohol. "You choose yore gait an' let me choose mine. Take ther road or give hit, either way." The second lad had found his tongue by this time and he elected to use it truculently.
When we're all drawed up eround ther house, so no way hain't left open thet a rabbit could break through, I'll sing out an' when I does thet ye all closes in on ther run. Thar's a big walnuck tree right by ther door ter hang him on an' termorrer mornin' folks'll hev a lesson thet they kin kinderly take ter heart."
"Hit ought ter be a matter of pride with ye, Pete, ter kinderly foller in his footsteps." The son met the steady and searching gaze of his chance companion for only a moment before he shiftily looked away and, for no visible reason, flushed. "He's a mighty good man albeit a hard one," he made answer, "but some folk 'lows he's old-fashioned in his notions." "Who 'lows thet, Pete ther riders?"
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