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You're on our lan', does you know dat? Now you git off, right soon." The officer of the law retreated as far as he could into the boat. "You thought Cunnel Blount was all 'lone in bed, too weak to move, didn't you?" resumed Bill. "Why, blame you, you couldn't 'rest Colonel Calvin Blount, not if he was daid! Go 'long dah, now!"
"Don' you b'lieve I don' never think o' the past!" broke in a deep and uninvited voice, much to Mrs. Buford's disquietude. "This yer sho'hly is a lan' o' Sodom an' Tomorrow. Dey ain't a sengle fiahplace in the hull country roun' yer.
However, after trying in vain to break out through the top and sides, he began to bore downward, and, finding that the extinguisher was not deep in the ground, he succeeded in effecting his escape from below. But he feared that his Master and the others would die of the poison. At this juncture, while he was suffering mental tortures on their behalf, a Bodhisattva, Lady Pi Lan, came to his rescue.
Mary Ellen could not restrain a smile, but it did not impinge upon the earnestness of the other. "Yas'm, Miss Ma'y Ellen," she continued, again taking the girl's face between her hands. "Gord, he say, it hain't good fer man toe be erlone. An' Gord knows, speshul in er lan' like this yer, hit's a heap mo' fitten fer a man toe be erlone then fer a 'ooman.
He listened most attentively; and when the story was over remained silent, apparently wrapped in profound thought, for several minutes. Looking up at last, with a flush of excitement on his face, he exclaimed "Why, there must be gold enough there to make millionaires of every one of us!" "Yes," said Blanche, "I believe there is; at least Lan Mr Evelin says so, and I have no doubt he knows."
"I never did look for to git nothin' after I was free. I had dat in my head to git me 80 acres o' lan' an' homestead it. As for de gov'ment making me a present o' anything, I never thought 'bout it. But jus' now I needs it. "I did git me dis little farm, 40 acres, but I bought it an' paid for it myse'f. I got de money by workin' for it.
"They are all for you," said Sylvia, lifting up a pretty blue cape and holding it toward Estralla. "My lan'!" whispered Estralla. There was a dress of blue delaine with tiny white dots, two pretty white aprons, the blue cape, and shoes and stockings, beside some of Sylvia's part-worn underwear. She had begged her mother to let her give the little darky these things, and Mrs.
"It was only a dream, mother! don't be so frightened," interrupted lan, for here his mother gave a little cry, almost forgetting what the narration was. "Then first," he went on, "I seemed to recover my self-possession. I saw that, though I must certainly be devoured by the wolves, and the child could not escape, I had no choice but go down and follow, do what I could, and die with her.
"Fer lan' sakes!" exclaimed Mrs. Case. "Whatever in the world ails you?" "I got 'em; I got 'em!" cried Willie, dashing for the telephone. "Fer lan' sakes! I should think you did hev 'em," retorted his mother as she trailed after him in the direction of the front hall. "'N' whatever you got, you got 'em bad. Now you stop right where you air 'n' tell me whatever you got.
My Lan’! but dats a piece, dat Grégor,” Aunt Belindy enunciated between paroxysms of laughter, seating herself with her fat arms resting on her knees, and her whole bearing announcing pleased anticipation. “Dat boy neva did have no car’ fur de salvation o’ his soul,” groaned Uncle Hiram. “W’at he ben a doin’ yonda?” demanded Aunt Belindy impatiently.
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