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That's how he skeert the widder the other day." The doctor was alert and on fire at once. "Scared the widow?" he repeated indignantly. "Yes. You know how she swooned away. Well, sir, me and that preacher, Brown, was the only one in that dinin' room at the time.
The girl eyed her for a moment and then went on: "You needn't be skeert of me ever tellin' anybody whut he said to me. Hit wouldn't be right to spread a lie like thet, Mis' Gwyn. You " "I think they are waiting for us, Moll," interrupted Rachel, suddenly holding out her hand to the girl. "Thank you. Come, give me your hand. We will go back to them, hand in hand, my girl."
D d if I don't think they make this cursed hole blacker." There was a laugh a woman's laugh hysterical, bitter, sarcastic, exasperating. The second speaker, without heeding it, went on: "What in thunder skeert the hosses? Did you see or hear anything?" "Nothin'. The wood is like a graveyard." The woman's voice again broke into a hoarse, contemptuous laugh. The man resumed angrily:
Well, Polly's thar, a little shy; and Billy, you bet HE'S all there, and ready for the fun; but the darned fool who plays Jephthah ain't worth shucks, and when HE comes in he does nothin' but grin at Polly and seem skeert at the goat. This makes old Withholder jest wild, and at last he goes on the platform hisself to show them how the thing oughter be done.
"And then," she went on, suddenly throwing out an imperative gesture of silence "and then, after I've been in this here house a long, long time, and you all gits so's you like me awful awful awful well, then some day you'll go in that room there and that room there and in the kitchen and out on the porch and down the cellar and out in the smoke-house and the wood-house and the loft and all around oh, ever' place and in here and up the stairs and all them rooms up there and you'll look behind all the doors and in all the cubboards and under all the beds and then you'll look sorry-like, and holler out, kind o' skeert, and you'll say: 'Where is Mary Alice Smith? And then you'll wait and listen and hold yer breath; and then somepin' 'll holler back, away fur off, and say: 'Oh she has gone home! And then ever'thing'll be all still ag'in, and you'll be afraid to holler any more and you dursn't play and you can't laugh, and yer throat'll thist hurt and hurt, like you been a-eatin' too much calamus-root er somepin'!" And as the little gipsy concluded her weird prophecy, with a final flourish of her big pale eyes, we glanced furtively at one another's awestruck faces, with a superstitious dread of a vague indefinite disaster most certainly awaiting us around some shadowy corner of the future.
"No, no, not afraid," said Billy; "skeert as I couldn't get up. You see there's no branches, not a sign o' one till you gets to the place where the nuts grows, and then the branches is all leaves." "No," said the major, looking at Billy with his head on one side, "he is not a countryman of mine. That was an English bull, Mark." "Why, o' course!" cried Billy, slapping his leg. "I've got it."
"I didn't believe that coveys could cut so; and they threw away their guns, too, that shows how skeert they was," continued Day, apparently so overjoyed at his success that he could talk of nothing else. "But it will not do for us to stand here and talk when the bushrangers are liable to come back at any moment and surprise you holding communication with beings of this earth," I said.
"But wot," said Dick brusquely, "wot if the girl was really skeert at something she'd seen, and fainted dead away, as she said she did, and and" he hesitated "some stranger came along and picked her up?" Monsieur Ribaud looked at him pityingly. "A Mademoiselle de Fontonelle is picked up by her servants, by her family, but not by the young man in the woods, alone. It is even more compromising!"
"Why but it's all water underneath!" she exclaimed at last. "Ef we was to fall now, we'd be drowned!" "Now don't you be a mite skeert," said Droop, with reassuring politeness. "We've ben scootin' along like this all night an' an' the fact is, I've got the kettle on p'raps it's b'iled over." Rebecca turned from the window at once and made for the kitchen.
"Fierce night," said Putnam Jones, removing the corn-cob pipe from his lips. Then, as an after thought: "Sorry I skeert you. I thought you heerd me." "I was listening to the song of the anvil," said Barnes, as the landlord moved forward and took his place beside him. "It has always possessed a singular charm for me." "Special hurry-up job," said Jones, and no more. "Shoeing?" "Yep.
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