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Updated: May 19, 2025
"Dem w'ite mens is atter somebuddy en dey say hit 's me," he muttered hoarsely. His eyes rolled toward the door, which, not having been barred after his entrance, swung slightly ajar. "Whut dey atter somebuddy for?" Neptune demanded. Outside, in the wet night, the screech-owl cried.
Now then, will you do me a favor?" "Certainly, sir, anything you want." "I merely want you to keep what you have told me to yourself for the present." "Oh, that's easy unless somebuddy tries to git me into trouble." "I don't think that will happen if you keep your mouth shut." "Then I'll be as mum as an oyster," answered Cephas Carboy decidedly.
"I am afraid we'll have to wait quite a while for an answer," returned Dick. "Oh, I don't know. They can telephone the messages up to the seminary from the telegraph office." "They'll find the ring just as I said unless somebuddy cleaned out the inkwell and took it," declared Andy Royce, who was rapidly sobering up because of the turn of affairs.
"Mortimer Arbuckle said as how he was coming hyer fer his health, but kick me ef I kin see it." "I think myself the man has an axe to grind," responded the leader of the boomers. "You know he came West to see about some land." "Oh, I know thet. But thar's somethin' else, sure ez shootin' ez shootin', Pawnee. It kinder runs in my noddle thet he is a'lookin' fer somebuddy." "Who?"
He edged toward the open door, but Neptune stepped in front of him, and flung up an arresting hand. "Whut for?" His voice was like a whip-lash. "Somebuddy done meddled wid a w'ite gal een de cawn-field. En dey 'low hit wuz me." A gasp, as if his heart had been squeezed, came from Neptune. Of a sudden he seemed to grow in height, to tower unhumanly tall above the cringing wretch he confronted.
"One day us li'l cullud chullun was frollicin' out in de front yard an' Mis' Nancy an' some mo' was settin' on de po'ch an' all of a sudden I see somebuddy comin' down de road an' I says 'Look, whut's dat? "An' white folks run to de woods an' hid out caze dey seen hit was Calv'ry 'bout a mile long comin' down de road.
"Somebuddy lived here once an' was wiped out," remarked the old frontiersman laconically. "Can't tell who did it." The falling of waters could now be plainly heard, and before long Pontiac and Foot-in-His-Mouth reached a beautiful waterfall, fifteen or eighteen feet in height. The fall was narrow and was lined upon either side with rugged rocks, overgrown with mosses and trailing vines.
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