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Git de hook! But I hauls out de plunks you give me, an' tells him how I'm here to get a dude suit, an', gee! if he don't haul out suits by de mile. Give me a toist, it did, watching him. 'It's up to youse, says de mug. 'Choose somet'in'. You pays de money, an' we does de rest. So, I says dis is de one, an' I put down de plunks, an' here I am, boss." "I noticed that, Spike," said Jimmy.
Then I turned to bid him talk fast as my time was limited, when who should it be but Manouvrier. I took him into my private office, gave him a chair and said: "I was just coming to see you." "You had somet'in' to git stoff'?" "No; I Oh, I didn't know but you might like to see me." "Yass? Well yass. I wish you come yesterday." "Indeed? Why so; to protect you from reporters and beggars?"
Not got much to tell, only dar's bin rumblin' an' grumblin's an' heavin's lately in de mountains as didn't use to be, an' cracks like somet'in' bustin' down blow, an' massa he shook 'is head two or free times an' look solemn. He don't often do dat shook 'is head, I mean for he mostly always looks solemn."
The father looked with fond perplexity at the strong young shoulders swinging silently with his own, forward and backward in slow, monotonous strokes, and said again: "Well? Whass matter? Look like cat got yo' tongue. Makin' new mash-in?" Then in a low dissatisfied tone "I reckon somet'in' mighty curious." He repeated the last three words in the Acadian speech: "Tcheuque-chose bien tchurieux."
"Dese be pedlar, ma'am, I do s'pose," answered the black. "Dey's got box wid somet'in' in him, and dey's got new kind of fiddle. Come, young man, gib Miss Dus a tune a libely one; sich as make an ole nigger dance." I drew round the hurdy-gurdy, and was beginning to flourish away, when a gentle, sweet voice, raised a little louder than usual by eagerness, interrupted me.
I t'ought he'd got it in fer me 'cos of last week when I scrapped wit' him about somet'in'. I t'ought after that he was layin' fer me, but de next time he seen me he put me wise to dis place." "Coals of fire," said Jimmy. "He was of a forgiving disposition." A single rain-drop descended on the nape of his neck. In another moment, a smart shower had begun.
Not got much to tell, only dar's bin rumblin' an' grumblin's an' heavin's lately in de mountains as didn't use to be, an' cracks like somet'in' bustin' down b'low, an' massa he shook 'is head two or t'ree times an' look solemn. He don't often do dat shook 'is head, I mean for he mostly always looks solemn."
"Call them A, and B," suggested Jimmy. "Den I hears him de foist mug strike a light, 'cos it's dark dere 'cos of de storm, an' den he says, 'Got youse, have I? he says. 'I've had my eye on youse, t'inkin' youse was up to somet'in' of dis kind. I've bin watching youse! I knew de voice. It's dat mug what calls himself Sir Tummas' vally. An' de odder " Jimmy burst into a roar of laughter.
"'Somet'in' wort' more zan diamon's, he said solemnly, an' went away. I never saw him again, an' a few months later I heard of the Nancy Boardman's going down with all hands." "Why not examine the chest?" cried Drew eagerly. The recital of the grizzled veteran had fired his blood. All that he had ever read or heard of the old buccaneers came back to him.
Wish well to all tribe, and color, and nation. Don't hate Bri'sh, don't hate Yankee; don't hate Cherokee, even. Wish 'em all well. Don't know dat heart is strong enough to ask Great Spirit to do 'em all good, if dey want my scalp p'rap dat too much for poor Injin; but don't want nobody's scalp, myself. Dat somet'in', I hope, for me."
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