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There was no broom, no hoe, or shovel, or spade to sweep or scrape the floor; and the horrors were falling upon me when the man of the blankets came, and said: "Mattam, iv you are goin' to do any ding for tese men, you petter git dem someding to eat." "Something to eat?" "Yaas! mine Cot, someding to eat! De government petter leave dem to tie on de pattle field, nur do pring tem here to starve."
"It's Suey, mattam, says would Mrs. Stannard come over a minute. He's stuck, mattam." "Stuck! Heavens! how?" cried Mrs. Stannard, up at once in alarm, and vanishing through the dim light of the blanketed window. The presumably punctured Chinaman was even then in full flight for his own kitchen door, some fifty feet away, and Mrs. Stannard followed.
"Eggscuse, mattam," said a wheezy voice, "I gall to eng-vire for Mister Peale, isn't it?" He shuffled forward into view, a small man with a dead white face and a head of monstrous size. She was bereft of speech and could only look at him, for this was the man she had found in her rooms the night before her dismissal the man who carried the Green Rust. Evidently he did not recognize her.
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