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Updated: May 13, 2025
But both glanced with cautious stealth at the receding backs, the doctor in front, his daughter walking daintily on the edge of grass by the roadside, holding her skirts away from the wet weeds. When she was out of sight Leff said with an embarrassed laugh: "Well, we got some one to go along with us now." David did not laugh. He pondered frowningly.
David gripped the hand he held and leaned forward to ask Leff for his knife. "Don't be frightened," he said to Susan. "It's all right." "I'm not frightened," she answered quietly. "Your knife," he said to Leff and then stopped, staring. Leff very slowly, step pressing stealthily behind step, was creeping backward up the slope. His face was chalk white, his eyes fixed on the Indians.
Las' Sunday night dey had a long class-meetin' dar, an' when nobody was leff in de church but my marster an' me, he says to me, 'Rodney, le's you an' me have one more prayer togedder befo' you put out dat las' lamp.
In their division of labor David and Leff had decided that one was to drive the wagon in the morning, the other in the afternoon. This morning it was David's turn, and as he "rolled out" at the head of the column he wondered if Leff would now ride beside Miss Gillespie and lend attentive ear to her family chronicles. But Leff was evidently not for dallying by the side of beauty.
He had been after antelope and carried his rifle and a hunting knife in his belt. During the chase he had come upon a deserted Pawnee settlement in a depression of the prairie. Susan was instantly interested and wanted to see it and David stood by, listening in sulky silence while Leff pointed out the way.
He was out on the frontier once and knows all about it, and there ain't nothing he can't drive" turning of the bacon here, Leff absorbed beyond explanatory speech "They got four horses, two to ride and two extra ones, and a cow. I don't see how they're goin' to keep up the pace with the cow along. The old gentleman says they can do twenty to twenty-five miles a day when the road's good.
Leff glared at the top of her head where her hair was twisted into a rough knot. "Thank you," she said. "I've found a beauty. You must have been all afternoon getting so many," and she put the strawberry in her mouth and picked up her sewing as though that ended the matter. Leff stood shifting from foot to foot, hoping that she might extend a helping hand.
"Ole woman and I go down to de boat; den dey say behind us, 'Rebels comin'l Rebels comin'! Ole woman say, 'Come ahead, come plenty ahead! I hab notin' on but my shirt and pantaloon; ole woman one single frock he hab on, and one handkerchief on he head; I leff all-two my blanket and run for de Rebel come, and den dey didn't come, didn't truss for come. "Ise eighty-eight year old, mas'r.
What for you go 'tall?" The youth satisfied him, in a manner as evasive and brief as possible, and urged him in the preparation of his steed for the journey. But the worthy negro absolutely refused to sanction the proceeding unless he were permitted to go along with him. He used not a few strong arguments for this purpose. "And what we all for do here, when you leff?
He live wi' ole Mass'r Sancon all him life. I believe war one ob Missy 'Genie gardiums, or whatever you call 'em. Gorramighty! what will young Missa do now? She hab no friends leff; and daat ole fox Gayarre he no good " Here the speaker suddenly interrupted himself, as if he feared that his tongue was going too freely.
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