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Updated: June 13, 2025
At first I figgered the police would be a-comin' after me; but they didn't there wasn't nobody at all seen the shootin', I reckin. And I was skeered Vic Magner might tell on me; but I guess she didn't want to run no risk of gittin' in trouble herself that Captain Brennan, of the Second Precinct, he's been threatenin' to run her out of town the first good chance he got.
"No, I reckin not," said Baker, after a thoughtful pause. "I reckin it's jess Baker that's all." "Didn't they ever call you anything else?" "Me?" "Yes, you." Again Baker looked helplessly around until he found the chandelier, and then his eyes sought the oriel. Then he started as if he had received a blow, and immediately reached down and felt his ankles. "Yes, sir," he answered. "What was it?"
"A tell ee wot 'twill be, mates," he said solemnly and slowly. "You mark my wurrds ef it dawn't cum truthy too, there'll be terble loss uv li-ife out there tu-night," and he waved his hand towards the blackening sea, "an' us'll hev tu dig a fuu more graves, I reckin', cum marnin'!" "The Lard hev murcy!" said Benjamin Blake, and the three resumed their walk again.
It was quite dark. Then to the rear, where the mill jutted on the side of a hill, he stopped in front of a door and said: "This is her room; she's in there, I reckin she's gen'ly late." With quickening heart the old woman entered and, almost immediately, she heard the door behind her shut and the key turn in the bolt.
I exclaimed, grasping the glittering object which the hunter held towards me; "what have you done?" It was a silver-handled stiletto. I recognised the weapon. I had given it to the boy Narcisso. "No harm, I reckin, Cap'n?" "The man the Mexican? How did he look? what like?" I demanded anxiously. "Like?" repeated the hunter.
"Why, Judge Priest, the word is all over this part of town by this time. Why, I reckin twenty-five or fifty people must 'a' been watchin' Old Peep to see how he was goin' to act when he come out of this courthouse." "Well, well, well!" murmured the Judge blandly. "Good news travels almost ez fast sometimes ez whut bad news does don't it, now? Well, son, I give up the riddle.
"Marse Elbert, he lived in jes a plain wood house made Califo'nia style, wid a front room an' a shed room where de boys slep'. Dey had two boys, Jettie an' William. "I reckin dere was 'bout a hun'erd an' sixty acres planted in taters an' corn, an' dey made whiskey too. "My mammy an' pappy was fiel' han's, an' I was mighty little to do so much.
"Tell me what you know about my poor Victoria's death. You were here just before." "Who told you so?" "It doesn't matter." "I know now. It was that engineer from Grandon. I've forgot his name. He peached on me, I reckin." "You have guessed the truth." "Rans, don't you trust that man." "Why not?" "He kin tell you how Vic come ter die, he kin. 'Twas jealousy and the like that did it."
"Peg spun dis wool," said Matthias, "an' de stockins is good: dis baskit," he added despairingly, "I tried my bes' to put some sky color on, but I reckin ef de bluin' bottle had jes' spill over it 'twould do more colorin' and better too. May de Lord help ye to live an' war it out, and then I'll make another."
He shoved a pudgy hand into a pocket of his white trousers. "I reckin this detail kin be arranged. Here, Peep" he extended his hand "here's your dollar." Then, as the other drew back, stammering a refusal, he hastily added: "No, no, no; go ahead and take it it's yours. I'm jest advancin' it to you out of whut'll be comin' to you shortly.
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