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"I beg your pardon, but is that not a bad dollar?" he said. "Oh, no mattah no consequence at all, I assuah you," said Wyatt liberally. He would have pocketed the piece, but Loring, who had paid it, gave him another, and flung the slighted coin over to Mitchell. "If you're so set on this dollar being bad," he said angrily, "I'll bet you what you dare it's not bad." "Done with you for twenty!"
He acknowledged her nod with a courteous lifting of his hat, and repeated her salutation. But Bernice, standing stiff and angry in the starlight, turned on her heel without a response. "What on earth do you suppose is the mattah with Bernice?" exclaimed Lloyd, in amazement, as they turned into the white road leading toward home.
"Why, is you 'shamed o' me?" he asked brokenly. "'Shamed? No! Oh, Be'y," and she sank into a chair and began rocking to and fro in her helpless grief. "What 's de mattah, Fannie? Ain't you glad to see me?" "Yes, yes, but you don't know nothin', do you? Dey lef' me to tell you?" "Lef' you to tell me? What 's de mattah? Is Joe or Kit daid? Tell me." "No, not daid.
Something in Jack's manner told the colored man that there was trouble aboard. "What's de mattah?" he asked. Jack saw no reason for concealing the danger from the cook. "We're heading into a comet," he, said. "What? One ob dem tings wid long, fiery tails, Massa Jack?" The youth nodded. "Am we gwine t' hit it?" "I'm afraid so." "Well, I hopes we does!" exclaimed Washington with great earnestness.
"Now, what's the mattah with you, honey?" she asked. "I'm only a-tellin' Mistah Fostah about some silly old signs my mammy used to believe in. But they don't mean nothin' at all." Lloyd couldn't have told why she was unhappy. She had not understood all that Mom Beck had said, but her sensitive little mind was shadowed by a foreboding of trouble. The shadow deepened as the days passed.
"What de mattah, Aunt Rhoda?" he queried, as she reached the side of the vehicle, almost breathless with excitement and exertion. "Why, Uncle Ben, dar dar's been a accident to de kyars, dey say, an' dey's all broke up, and de folks roun' here is all" "Where? where?" exclaimed Ella, while Zoe sank back against the cushions, quite unable to speak for the moment.
Nothing else, I assuah you, gentlemen, could fo'ce me to call attention to a mattah so puahly pussonal as a diffe'nce between gentlemen in theiah standahds of inebriety! Nothing else, believe me!" By the G. B. T. the Captain meant the Grain Belt Trust Company, and anything which affected its solvency or welfare was, as he said, a matter of serious concern for all of us.
"I didn't know you were so close when I set off those guns." "Dat's all right, Mass a Tom," was the reply. "I done called t' you t' wait, but yo' didn't heah me, I 'spects. But it doan't mattah, now. Shoot all yo' laik, Boomerang won't run any mo' dis week. He done runned his laigs off now. Shoot away!" But Tom was not quite ready to do this.
Mammy Peggy took the brown head in her lap and let her big hands wander softly over the girl's pale face. "Sh, sh," she said as if she were soothing a baby, "don't go on lak dat. W'y whut's de mattah wid you, Miss Mime? 'Pears lak you done los' all yo' spe'it. Whut you reckon yo' pappy 'u'd t'ink ef he could see you ca'in' on dis away?
"I feels greatly comforted," said Aun' Sheba. Elder, you'se a good shep'd ob de flock. You'se a lookin' arter body an' soul. You'se got de eddication to talk big words to us, an', now we'se free, we hab a right to big words, no mattah how much dey mean. It's po'ful comfortin' ter know we'se doin' 'cordin' to de law an' de gospel."
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