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Hunt's brother offered back half the money; offered it! why, he tried to force it on the fellow, and couldn't. His master wouldn't let him buy himself and his wife, I suspect, out of sheer cussedness, and he hadn't any other use for money, he said. Besides, he didn't want to take, and wouldn't take, anything that looked like pay for doing aught for a 'Linkum sojer, alive or dead.
He said that unless Major Anderson and his soldiers left Fort Sumter at once that all the forts, and the new batteries built by the Confederates, would open fire upon Sumter and destroy it. "I hears a good deal, Missy, 'deed I does," he declared, "but I doan' let on as I hears. Massa Linkum he's gwine to send a lot o' big ships down here 'fore long. Yas, indeed."
"In de arternoon hundreds more Linkum men come, an' Cap'n Lane's cunnel come wid dem, an' he praise de cap'n an' cheer him up, an' de cap'n was bery peart an' say he feel better. Mos' ob de ossifers take supper at de house.
Should de vict'ry still remain wid our side, I promise you 'tection an 'munity from 'noyance! "Den he bow an' gallop arter his men dat was chasin' our sogers, leabin' anoder ossifer in charge ob de pris'ners. De head Linkum man was Cap'n Lane." "I knew it, I knew it," cried Marian. "Ah! he's a friend to be proud of."
He was aroun' 'mong de woun'ed, an' seein' ter buryin' de dead, an' postin' an' arrangin' his men; deed, an' was all ober eberywhar. "By dis time de ebenin' was growin' dark, de woun'ed and been cared for, an' our ossifers an' de Linkum ossifers sat down to supper; an' dey talk an' larf as if dey was good fren's.
But at the moment he heard Alec whistling a favourite tune, as he shovelled away at the snow. "General!" cried Linkum, in ecstasy. "Here!" answered Alec, flinging his spade twenty feet from him, and bolting in the direction of the call. "Is't you, Linkum?" "She's oot, General." "Deil hae her, gin ever she wins in again, the curst worryin' brute! Did ye gang to Curly?"
He smile an' say, 'Tell de young lady dat I drink to her health an' happier times. Den I gits up my co'age an' says, 'Cap'n Lane, I wants ter see yer when my work's done in de house. He say, 'All right, come ter me here. Den he look at me sharp an' say, 'Can I trus' yer? An' I say, 'Yes, Mass'r Cap'n; I'se Linkum, troo an' troo. Den he whisper in my ear de password, 'White-rose."
Putty soon I comes back and says to her, 'I axed a man, an' he tole me dey was changin' de guard. 'Did de res' seem quiet? 'Yes, missy, dey is sleepin' 'round under de trees. She seemed greatly 'lieved, an' says, 'You watch aroun' an' tell me ef dere's any news. I stole out again an' crep' up 'hind some bushes, an' den I sho' dat de Linkum men was a-slippin' away toward de creek-road, but de guards kep' walkin' 'roun de pris'ners, jes' de same.
Their innocent guile and preposterous religious belief amused him. He both smiled and wondered at their faith in "Linkum," whom at that time he regarded as a long headed, uncouth Western politician, who had done not a little mischief of interfering with the army. "It is ever so with all kinds of superstition and sentimental belief," he soliloquized.
De place fer a big fine is whar de brush is tick and de Linkum men crawl away so dey woan be tromp on. Who knows but I kin fine a place whar a ginral hide hisself? Ob cose if he hab a lot of gole he'd stick it in de bush or kiver it right smart, so dat oders moutn't get it foh he could helf hisself."
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