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But Isom al'ays was quar, 'n' seed things hisself. He ain't no fool!" The girl was listening. Morbidly sensitive to the supernatural, she had turned toward him, and her face was relaxed with fear and awe. "He's havin' dreams 'n' sech-like now, 'n' I reckon thar's nothing he's seed or heerd that he don' talk about. He's been a-goin' on about you," he added, abruptly.
"Me go, too," the child answered, slipping her hand into the Colonel's and leading the way to a little enclosure where the Harrises were buried. The Colonel felt quar with that hand holding his so tight, and the child hippy-ty-hopping by his side over the boards Jake had put down for a walk to the graveyard. "Dis mine.
He followed her, but she barricaded herself in her room in the loft, and would not be coaxed down. The next day she had forgotten that she was angry. Her mother showed no surprise at any of her moods. Easter was not like other " gals," she said; she had always been" quar," and she reckoned would" al'ays be that way." She objected in no wise to Clayton's intimacy with her.
"Oh, nothin'," said Buck carelessly; "only he's been quar ever since. My sisters says he's got a gal over thar, an' he's a-pickin' off these rings more'n ever now. He's going to win or bust a belly-band." "Well, who's Dave Branham?" Buck grinned. "You jes axe my sister Mollie. Thar she is." Before us was a white-framed house of logs in the porch of which stood two stalwart, good-looking girls.
Dat ar doan trouble me nohow, en Aun' Jinkey orter know bettah. Ef de Lawd 'mits spooks, dat He business. He 'mits lots ob tings we kyant see troo. Look at dese yere old han's, young mistis. Dey's wuked nigh on eighty yeah, yit dey neber wuked fer mysef, dey neber wuked fer wife en chil'n. Dat mo' quar dan spooks." "I don't know but you are right," said the girl thoughtfully.
"Dat's mighty quar," said Hannibal, musingly; "not a bit like de big folks dat I'se seen." "I don't understand it all myself yet, Hannibal. But the Bible tells me that He was God come down to earth to save the world. He says to the lost and sinful to all who are poor and needy in brief, to the heavy laden, 'Come unto me. So I went to Him, Hannibal, and you can go just as well."
So he replied a little doggedly: "Spooks does a heap ob quar tings, Miss Edie. I'd tink it was Massa Allen, ony I knows dat he neber hab a hoe in his hand all his life. I doesn't like it. I'd radder hab de weeds." "O Hannibal, Hannibal! I couldn't believe it of you. I'll go and see Malcom, just to satisfy you." Edith took her deed, and went first to Mr. Hard.
For about half an hour the meteoric shower continued to descend, and during that time the wind slightly abated in violence; but after having shifted from quarter to quar- ter, it once more blew with all its former fury.
"I'd be glad to go to work to-morrow, too," said Ella. "I'd be glad of anything to make the time pass." "Why, honey, wot you want de time to pass quick fer? You oughter be like de hummin'-bird, gederin sweets all de day." "I feel more like a croaking raven." "You'se quar, Missy Ella. You'se up an' you'se down, an' you doan know why.
"'Thar was such a quar look in his eyes, a starin' at me a minit, an' then he said, "I am nobody's husband, an' never shall be." "'I b'lieve he lied, an' wanted to knock him down, but wouldn't right thar by her grave. He tole me I was to have all the money Miss Dory had been layin' up, an' he would send me mo' for the stun.
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