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After the Kid had gone rocketing back to the betting ring, Curry turned to Jockey Moseby Jones. "Mose," said he, "don't lay too far out of it to-day. This grey hoss lasts pretty well, so begin workin' on 'Lisha sooner than usual. He's ready to stand a long, hard drive. Bring him home in front, boy!" "Sutny will!" chuckled the little negro. "At's bes' thing I do!"
Every bit of evidence that'll hold in law is gone, and nobody but you and Steve'll have the shadow of a claim. I'll do it, so sure as I live! There! now you can make up your mind." He turned, strode to the door and out of the room. A moment later they heard a scream from Miss Baker in the kitchen: "'Lisha Warren, what ails you? Are you crazy?"
The moment they came in the Colonel's eyes brightened, and when Amy stooped and kissed him he tried to kiss her back. Then he fixed his eyes on Eloise with a questioning glance, which made her say to him, "Do you know me?" He struggled hard for a moment, and then replied, "Yesh, 'Lisha Ann! Stay!" and those were the only really intelligible words he ever spoke.
'Em white bu'glahs don't seem to crave me nohow, no time; 'ey jus' be tickled to death to put me an' 'Lisha oveh 'e fence if we git clost 'nough to it. Yes, indeed; I 'low to give 'is hawss all 'e room whut is on a race track!" Old Man Curry led Elisha toward his barn, the little negro trailing behind, addressing the horse in terms of endearment.
So, too, were the hot biscuits and the tea and homemade preserves and cake. Conversation during the meal was, for the most part, a monologue by the captain. He gave Miss Baker a detailed and exaggerated account of his adventures in Ostable, on board the train, and during the drive home. The housekeeper listened, fidgeting in her chair. "'Lisha Warren," she interrupted, "how you do talk!
Why, yes, now I remember 'Lisha wrote you'd been studyin' some kind of science at college. 'Twa'n't settin' table science, I guess, though. Ha! ha!" "That was part of it." She explained the course briefly. Abigail listened in amazement. "And they teach that at school?" she demanded. "And take money for it? And call it science? My land! I guess I was brought up in a scientific household, then.
"He'd no natural turn for the sea, 'Lisha hadn't; but I might have kept him with me if the land was good for anything." Elisha felt as if lie were in a dream, now that his great adventure was begun. He answered John Sykes's questions mechanically, and his head was a little dull and dazed.
"Lisha was the kindest man you ever see, so when I up and said I warn't goin' to drudge round no more, but must hev a girl, he got one, and goodness knows what a trial she was. After she came I got dreadful slack, and left the house and the children to Hen'retta, and went pleasurin' frequent all in my best.
I thought he'd walk in. Then all at once he quit running. He wasn't pulled, but something stopped him and stopped him quick. What was it?" Old Man Curry stroked his beard and regarded the Bald-faced Kid with a tolerant expression. "Well, now," said he at length, "seeing as how you know so much, I'm going to tell you something more 'bout that 'Lisha hoss. He used to have another name once."
"Keep dead-reckonin', 'Lisha," said Martin; "dat's good 'nough for us; an', say, can't you take sights by a watch jess for a bluff, to show in de log-book?" "Might; 't wouldn't be reliable. Good enough, though, for log-book testimony. That's what I'll do." Inch by inch they gathered in their cable and coiled it down, unmoved by the protesting toots of the steamer's whistle.
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