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"Massah," said he, looking seriously upon me, "I have wife and children; my massah takes care of them, and I have no care to provide anything; I have a good massah, who teach me to read; and I read good book, that makes me happy." "I am glad," replied I, "to hear you say so; and pray what is the good book you read?" "The Bible, massah, God's own good book."
"Massah Hugh, my poor, dear Massah Hugh," he cried, bending over his young master. "I wish 'twas Sam had all de pain an' all de aches you feels. I'd b'ar it willingly, massah, I would. Dear massah, kin you hear Sam talkin' to you?"
"'Deed I will, Massah Jack, if yo' wants me to," responded the colored man. Darcy and Ben were soon off and Jack re-entered the house, to be confronted by Mrs. Ruthven. "What are you up to, Jack?" "I have called out our Home Guard, mother. The Yankees shall not destroy this plantation or molest you and Marion." "You must do nothing rash, Jack." "I will be careful.
He came first to Putnam Hall, and was warmly received both by the Rover boys and by the others who knew him as an old hand around the Hall. "Glad you have come, Aleck!" cried Tom. "I declare it looks as if you belonged here." "Yes, sah, an' I dun feel like I belong heah, too, Massah Tom," answered the colored man. "Remember the sport we used to have?" put in Sam.
"Six or seben miles, Massah Jack." "Then we have a good, stiff walk before us." "Do yo' t'ink yo' can walk dat far, Massah Jack, in dis awful storm?" "I can, unless the rain sets in harder. I am anxious to get back, you know." "I don't blame yo' fo' dat, Massah Jack. De folks will be mighty glad to see yo', too," answered Old Ben.
"I don't believe I'll ever go over to the old wreck again." "It's a wondah dat wreck aint busted up long ago," put in Old Ben. "It's a wonder the poor people around here haven't carried off the wreckage for firewood, Ben," said Jack. "Da is afraid to do dat, Massah Jack afraid some ob de sailors wot was drowned might haunt 'em." "I see.
He was wrapped in blankets, lying comfortably on the ground. Overhead the branches of the trees, black against the sky, waved solemnly. "You 'wake, massah?" Tom started at the voice. An old negro was sitting beside him. "Yes what...?" "You jes' rest quiet," said the negro. "Ev'thing's all right. Miss Marjorie, she comin' soon."
Old Sam, too, with streaming eyes, stole out to his bethel by the spring, and prayed for the dear "Massah Hugh" lying so still at Spring Bank, and insensible to all the prayers going up in his behalf. How terrible that deathlike stupor was, and the physician, when later in the afternoon he came again, shook his head sadly.
The Rovers were placed in two adjoining apartments, while the natives and Aleck were quartered in an addition of bamboo in the rear. "Keep your eyes and ears open, Aleck," whispered Dick, on separating from the faithful colored man. "And if you find anything wrong let us know at once." "Do you suspect anyt'ing, Massah Rober?" was Pop's anxious question. "I do and I don't.
The spot where this occurred, God called Massah, and Meribah, because Israel had there tried their God, saying, "If God is Lord over all, as over us; if He satisfies our needs, and will further show us that He knows our thoughts, then will we serve Him, but not otherwise."
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