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Phoebus thought; "why must it git cruel an' desperate for money, lookin' out on this dancin' water, an' want to turn this trance into a Pangymonum?" He crossed the lane to a squatty old structure of brick by the water-side, and peeped in. "A still, by smoke!" he said. "If it ain't apple brandy may I forgit my compass! No, it's peach brandy.
"Now see the rascality o' them kidnappers! Yon house, I know, is Twiford's, because it's a'most on the state-line, but, I'm ashamed to say, it's a leetle in Maryland. And that lane, coming down to the wharf, is my way to Joe Johnson's Pangymonum at his cross-roads."
"Never tell your mother, Levin, that Captain Dennis died in that Pangymonum; it would break her heart, and she never would trust man agin." "Jimmy," spoke up Samson, "let her understand that he got wrecked on the Ida. It looks a little bad, but the slave-trade sounds better than kidnappin'."
"It's everything that makes Pangymonum," Jimmy Phoebus explained; "that old woman, Patty Cannon, has spent the whole of a wicked life, by smoke! or ever sence she came to Delaware from Cannady, as the bride of pore Alonzo Cannon a-makin' robbers an' bloodhounds out of the young men she could git hold of.
"The tide's agin' em, an' they must make a tack to get yer," Jimmy muttered; "but I'm afraid this knife will have to go to the heart of some son of Pangymonum in ten minutes, or Ellenory Dennis never agin be pestered by her ugly lover."
The idea crossed Levin's mind that the scullion of Patty Cannon must have gone crazy. "Whair did you pick up them words, Cy?" Levin asked. "Hokey-pokey!" answered Cy James, with a more mysterious and impressive sufflation; "Hokey-pokey! By smoke! and Pangymonum, too!" "Why, Cy! what do you mean? Jimmy Phoebus never swars but in them air words. Do you know Jimmy Phoebus?"
"I didn't believe it, neither, till I heard him say, when they loosened the slipknot that had strangled me the voice was his I had trusted so much; I never could forget it! 'Eben, he said, 'I've took down every mole and spot on her body and can swear to' em, for I've learned 'em by heart, and you won't have no trouble a-sellin' her, as she can't testify." "The imp of Pangymonum!" Jimmy cried.
He took from his pocket the fateful letter and glanced at its endorsement, and, as he did so, Levin heard an exclamation in the yard from a man who had received the whole of the apple brandy and sugar in his face, and was furious; but as soon as he seemed to recognize the thrower he muttered, apologetically: "Hokey-pokey! By smoke! and Pangymonum, too!"
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