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"This night," he said, with white lips and mechanical utterance, "this night" "Satan is in the shed-room!" shouted the three small boys, as they held fast to the door with a strength far beyond their age and weight. Nevertheless, they were hardly able to cope with the strength on the other side of the door, and it was alternately forced slightly ajar, and then closed with a resounding slam.
"'Pud Hon, go in the shed-room thar, chile, an' if you hear anybody a-hollerin' an' a-squallin', thes shet your eyeleds an' grit your teeth, bekaze hit'll be your pore ole granny a-tryin' to git even with some er your kin. "An' then I taken a cheer an' sot down by the winder.
He lifted his sharp finger and followed her toward the shed-room door, his voice the triumphant cry of an eagle above his prey. Her heart gave a bound of cowardly joy. He had relented. He would not blind her. She could live. She was young and life was sweet. She tried to smile her surrender through her tears as she backed slowly away from his ominous finger. "Yes, I'll try Jim.
The two negroes at the end of the vista beyond the shed-room, with the ox-yoke and plough-gear which they were mending between them, opened wide mouths and became immovable save for the whites of astonished rolling eyes.
"In the off shed-room below. What of her?" "Of her oh nothing!" and Rivers paused musingly in the utterance of this reply, which fell syllable by syllable from his lips. The landlord proceeded: "Pass on, Rivers; pass on: or have you determined better about this matter? Shall the youngster live?
So they said nothing to Old Daddy, but presently, when he had hobbled off to bed in the adjoining shed-room, they fell to discussing their terror of the apparition, and thus it chanced that the two boys, Tad and Si, first made, as it were, the ghost's acquaintance. Tad, a stalwart fellow of seventeen, sat listening spellbound before the glowing embers.
Sapp rose up from the quilt she was quilting, and, greeting Elvira cordially, invited her to lay off her things meaning her hat and cloak and take a chair. Mary was in the kitchen, a small shed-room attached to the cabin, getting supper. Elvira looked around her. The hewn logs which formed the walls were well chinked in the cracks, and neatly whitewashed. A home-made rag carpet covered the floor.
Once, as the firelight flickered into the dark shed-room, the ignorant, superstitious mountaineers had a fleeting glimpse of an object there which convinced them: they beheld great gleaming, blazing eyes, a burnished hoof, and yes a flirting tail. "I believe it is Satan himself!" cried Ben, with awe in his voice.
And Betty followed her directions until the square dinner-table stood in the middle of the floor, covered with a nice homespun linen cloth of which the history had to be told; and the old blue crockery; and Betty had cut just so many slices of bread, and brought just so many spiced pears from the brown jar in the cellar-way, and found the nice little square piece of cold corned beef which the hostess was so glad to have on hand, and had looked at the potatoes two or three times where they were baking in the stove oven in the shed-room where sister Sarah did her summer cooking; all these and other things were done when Serena, out of breath, and heated with hurrying, came in at the door.
He was even beginning to waver in his allegiance to his absent hero, especially as the wish about the Indian pony had not come true. During the family meal the young men sat outside in the shed-room, and smoked and lazily talked together. Their words reached the silent group at the table. Kirkwood's companions were deriding him as a recreant sportsman.
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