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Updated: September 14, 2025
"While them Apaches is dodgin' about among the rocks, an' howlin' contempt, an' passin' resolootions of revenge touchin' the two Moons, the Injun agent comes troopin' along. He seeks to round-up his savages an' herd 'em back to the agency. The Apaches, on their side, is demandin' the capture of the nephy Moon for sp'ilin' one of their young men.
Hence our visit to the rock to-day. Please to write the address in this pocket-book." The major handed Ruby a small green pocket-book as he spoke, in which the latter wrote the full name and address of his late skipper. "Now, nephy," said the captain, "we must, I'm sorry to say, bid ye good day, and ask you to return to your work, for it won't do to rouse suspicion, lad.
"The agent is a prairie dog jest out from the East, an' don't know half as much about what's goin' on inside of a Apache as a horned toad. He comes down to the aige of hostil'ties, as you-all might call it, an' makes Moon an' his Winchester workin' nephy a speech.
"I feel like a hand-organ monkey every time I go out there," he muttered. "I tell ye," protested the old man, as earnestly as his feebleness would permit, "there's lots of big business in this world that don't need so long a head as this one does bein' as how you're goin' to run it shipshape. You need brains; that you do, nephy. It'll keep you studyin' all the time.
What he does for this yere young Wilkins female ain't a marker. Thar's the Red Dog man he lets out. Thar's the Stingin' Lizard's nephy; he stakes said yooth from infancy. 'Benev'lent! says you. This party Cherokee is that benev'lent he'd give away a poker hand.
Such were the words, followed by three cheers, with which his friends parted from him, and left him alone with the captain. "We must break it to her, nephy," said the captain, as they moved towards the cottage. "'Still so gently o'er me stealin", Memory will bring back the feelin'. It won't do to go slap into her, as a British frigate does into a French line-o'-battle ship.
"So I was, and hard enough work I had to convince them that I had nothin' to do with it myself, but they saw that I couldn't jump a stone wall eight foot high to save my life, much less break into a house, and they got no further evidence to convict me, so they let me off; but it'll go hard with you, nephy, for Major Stewart described the men, and one o' them was a big strong feller, the description bein' as like you as two peas, only their faces was blackened, and the lantern threw the light all one way, so he didn't see them well.
"Nephy," said the captain in a hoarse whisper, putting his face close to that of Ruby, "mum's the word! Silence, mystery, an' all that sort o' thing. Don't appear to be an old friend, lad; and as to Minnie here 'O no, we never mention her, Her name it's never heard. Allow me to introduce you to Major Stewart, whose house you broke into, you know, Ruby, when
She'll get good by our afternoon's sail, and we won't be the worse of her company. What say ye to that, nephy?"
He was inclined to follow her at once, but as she gave him no opportunity for doing this he went to the window, and remained tapping his fingers against the shutter while she crossed the yard. 'Well, nephy, you are not gone yet? said the farmer, looking dubiously at Festus from under one eyelid. 'You see how I am. Not by any means better, you see; so I can't entertain 'ee as well as I would.
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