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"Y-y-y-yah you is, Mistuh Charles," he stuttered. "Ah, Williams concealed weapons? That is fifty dollars fine in your native Tennessee, isn't it?" Then to Brissac: "Please go to the farther window and mark down for me, Mr. Brissac. I don't like to have those fellows do all the bluffing."
Her voice was shrill and piping, but softened somewhat by age. "Is dis yere whar Mistuh Ryduh lib, suh?" she asked, looking around her doubtfully, and glancing into the open windows, through which some of the preparations for the evening were visible. "Yes," he replied, with an air of kindly patronage, unconsciously flattered by her manner, "I am Mr. Ryder. Did you want to see me?"
All dat time I been a-wearin' clo'es, en now you come en tarrygate me, sayin' I got to stan' up in de nekked rind en wave fedders 'cause I in slaveryment? You bes' ain't let Mistuh Peter Champneys hear you talkin' lak dat!" The bewildered and baffled young man raved in three languages, but Emma Campbell flatly refused either to be in "slaveryment" or in the "nekked rind."
Tom counted out ten five-dollar gold pieces upon the table at his elbow. "And here's another, Sandy," he said, adding an eleventh, "as interest for the use of it." "Thank y', Mistuh Tom. I didn't spec' no in-trus', but I don' never 'fuse gol' w'en I kin git it." "And here," added Delamere, reaching carelessly into a bureau drawer, "is a little old silk purse that I've had since I was a boy.
Dat wuz how I seed de time. It wuz twenty-six minutes uv two." "What did you do then?" "Nothin', boss; jes' went on niggerin' it. Dat is, I went on till de night clerk giv' me a kick on de shins and tole me to take Mistuh Morley's bags up to fo'-twenty-one. I done tole you dat was five minutes arftuh two.
I came from the club an hour ago. I had forgotten my key, and Sally got up and let me in, and then went back to bed. I've been sitting here reading ever since. I should have heard any one who came in." "Mistuh Tom," inquired Sandy anxiously, "would you 'low dat I'd be'n drinkin' too much?" "No, Sandy, I should say you were sober enough, though of course you may have had a few drinks.
"Mistuh what?" said the negro, puzzled. "Well, jest call me boss. Now, Abe, climb up into the wagon here, and come along with me." "He can't git into no wagon o' mine," said the teamster surlily. "Government wagons ain't no passenger coaches for runaway niggers. I didn't hire to haul niggers on pleasure excursions. That ain't no part of a white man's bizniss. Let him walk alongside."
Right now, Mistuh Bristow?" "Yes; hurry. I want some orangeade." He returned to the bedroom and closed the door. Lucy was bent forward on the chair, moaning. "Stop that!" he said, feeling now that he had himself and her under control. "If you don't stop, you'll have something real to sniffle about before I'm through with you! Now begin. What about Perry last Monday night?"
The inquest is over by this time, and she'll be at home by the time you get there. Bring her back here with you. Tell her it's by order of the police, and I only want to talk to her a few minutes." "Yas, suh," said Mattie. "I'm not going to hurt her, Mattie," he said. "Be sure to tell her so." "Yas, suh, Mistuh Bristow; I sho' will tell her.
Den he 'll up en die. Widout one Gawd's soul o' 'is own folkses to put de coppers on 'is eyes en' tie up de corpse's jaws. Ah Lawd, ah Lawd!" "Oh, shut up, you old idiot! I'm not coming home to my meals any more, if this is how you're going to behave!" This from Peter, disgustedly. "Ain't you, suh? All right, suh, Mistuh Champneys, you 's be boss.
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