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Updated: June 13, 2025
If they have found the chest they may by now be starting for camp with the first load of doubloons." Again I shook my head. "They haven't found the gold," I assured him. The astonished faces grew more anxious. "It sho' have told on li'le Miss Jinny's brain," muttered Cookie to himself. "They haven't found the gold," I reiterated with emphasis, "because the gold is not in the cave.
You come in with me and Cap'n Falk and Mistah Kipping, and we's gwine split dat yeh money all up'twix' one another. Yass, sah! But you all gotta have nothin' to do with dat yeh Mistah Hamlin and dat yeh cocky li'le Ben Lathrop. "'Oh no, Ah says inside, so stew'd he don't heah me. 'Guess you all don't know me and dat yeh Ben Lathrop is friends. "Den Ah stop sudden.
'Tain't what I could offah to a gennelmun if so be I is got the makin's of a genuwine old-style julep what is de beverage of de fust fam'lies. But bein' as it is, it am mighty coolin', sah, and it got a li'le kick to it not much, but jes' 'bout enough to make a gennelmun feel lak he is one." Cookie's tones dripped humility and propitiation.
"She died last night." "Aye, an' there's another doon t' li'le boy t' three-year-old," said old Dobbs sharply, straightening himself on his stick, at sight of the agent. "The nurses are here?" said Faversham after a pause. "Aye," said the shepherd, turning toward his cottage, "but they can do nowt. The childer are marked for deein afore they're sick."
Everything in Maggie's life turned upon that one small object; the "li'le lass" was her one treasure, her one golden bit of happiness, the reason why she cared to see the sun shine, or to eat, or drink, or rest, or to be alive at all. Except for the child she was alone in the world, for her husband had been killed in an accident two years ago, when the baby was only a month old.
Down war I is come from no pussons of de Four Hund'ed ain't eveh 'customed to partake of such. But the sassiety I has been in lately round dis yere camp ain't of de convivulous ordah; ole Cookie had to keep it dark dat he got his li'le drop o' comfort on de side. Dis yere's only home-made stuff, sah.
He wore shot leadin' a charge ag'in de Yanks, an' when de gen'ral cum later ter say how bad he feel ter lose Massa, he jes' said: 'Ah wish Ah haid uh son ter take ma place in de ranks." The negro paused, then continued slowly: "When yo' an' I got dar, Missy, de Massa wore mos' gone, but he say ter yo': 'Doan cry, dear, de fightin' Newtons allus die wid de boots on an' so die happy. An' den he raise hissef up uh li'le an' gasp: 'Ah gib yo' ter de Cause swear to uphold de honoh ob Virginny ter repel invasion swear " Sam raised his right hand solemnly.
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