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Hearing the hum of the old negro's tuneful spirit, she called him and he came to the door. "Kintchin, they have taken Jasper." "Yas'm, an' da've tuck Lije Peters, too." "Why, Jasper said he wasn't goin'." "He ain't he's gone. I was a hidin' in de bushes an' I seed Peters wid his knife, an' I seed er man way up an' den er man way down wid blood spurtin' up.
In that corner, close by the head of one of the main slides, stood a table whose presiding genius was a little swinging circular. The circular was tended by a powerful, sombre-visaged old mill-hand called 'Lije Vandine, whose office it was to trim square the ragged ends of the "stuff" before it went down the slide.
He stood staring stupidly at his dead mother and showed no fear of the people that came up to stroke and admire him. He seemed so absolutely docile that when Sandy and Lije came proudly down the hill to tell of their achievement, Sandy declared that the youngster should be kept and made a pet of.
Starbuck slapped him in the face, and springing back, Lije cocked the pistol and raised it to shoot. "Hold on a minute just one minute," said Starbuck, and with the pistol leveled, Peters stood looking at him. "Yes, I'll give you one minute, Starbuck, an' that is all. If you move I'll kill you." "If I do move, you scoundrel, it will be to kill you. Why, you po' fool "
Just as he was hesitating as to what he should do, and looking for a rock or stump behind which he might hide while he reloaded his gun, the moose caught sight of him, forgot about Lije, and came charging through the weeds. Sandy had no more time for hesitation.
A real trouble is a comin' down the road, but you don't appear to mind it. Have you seed Lije Peters sense he was here the other day?" "No, I ain't been lookin' fur him." "But he mout look for you." "He won't have to look under the bed," the old man replied, slowly walking up and down the room. "Jasper, do you think he'll git that app'intment as deputy marshal?"
As they leaned over the bridge-rail they saw Mr. Wiley driving clown the river road. When he caught sight of them he hitched the old white horse at the corner and walked toward them, filling his pipe the while in his usual leisurely manner. "We're not busy this forenoon," said Lije Dennett. "S'pose we stand right here and let Old Kennebec have his say out for once.
"You know I have been out of the neighborhood an' ain't had a chance to talk business until lately." "That's so." "And you ought to know what that business is." "Yes, I know." "Even if a man is gittin' old, Starbuck, thar ain't no reason why he should be a fool." "That's a fact, Lije." "And the biggest fool in the world, Starbuck, is the man that won't keep out of trouble when he kin."
Seeing that the bull's attention was so well occupied, Lije slipped down the further side of his tree and recaptured his Snider. He had by this time entirely recovered his nerve, and now felt master of the situation. Having slipped in a new cartridge he stood forth boldly and waited for the moose to offer him a fair target. As the animal moved this way and that, he at length presented his flank.
'I wish to the land I hed, says I. An' then I come away, for my tongue's so turrible spry an' sarcustic that I knew if I stopped any longer I should stir up strife. There's some folks that'll set on addled aigs year in an' year out, as if there wa'n't good fresh ones bein' laid every day; an' Lije Dennett's one of 'em, when it comes to river-drivin'."
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