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Vickers thought sadly, "If the old Colonel's ghost should haunt this terrace, he couldn't find his way about!" "But it's snug and amusing, the Farm? Isn't it?" Cairy demanded of Vickers in a consoling manner. "I shouldn't call it snug," Vickers replied, unconsciously edging away from the Southerner, "nor wholly amusing!" "You don't like my efforts!" Isabelle exclaimed wearily.
There he remained several days, and found the most bitter feeling existing between the political parties. He passed very easily among the anti-war people for a Southerner and rebel. He made the acquaintance of one Maj. Cornell, who was home on leave of absence.
The voices were hushed, the feet halted in the hall, and then there was a sharp knock on the door. Before Harry could reach the door Frank called out: "Come in." Open flew the door, and there stood the tall, straight, dark-eyed Southerner, with half a dozen other fellows behind him. "Mr. Merriwell," said Diamond, stiffly, "I have called to see you on a very important matter, sir."
"If I had the traditions of a deranged doodle bug, I'd go around hunting trouble in a country that is full of it for foreigners even those who behave themselves like sane human beings." "Meaning, perhaps, that I'm not a sane human being?" inquired the Southerner. "Do you think you act like it?
The grim walls of Fort Sumter and Pickens, in far off Southern waters, flashed red before every eye. The applause suddenly died away into the old silence, and a man in the crowd before the platform yelled: "We're for Jefferson Davis!" There was no answer and no disorder only the shrill cry of the Southerner through the silence, and the speaker continued his address.
Yet at one town in South Carolina, when I sought accommodations for two or three days at a boarding-house, I was asked by the woman in charge, "Are you a Yankee or a Southerner?" and when I answered, "Oh, a Yankee, of course," she responded, "No Yankee stops in this house!" and turned her back upon me and walked off.
The colonel glanced in the direction indicated, and was surprised at the appearance of the redoubtable Fetters, who walked over and took his seat at the table with the judge and the lawyers. He had expected to meet a tall, long-haired, red-faced, truculent individual, in a slouch hat and a frock coat, with a loud voice and a dictatorial manner, the typical Southerner of melodrama.
To the typical Northerner, it seemed monstrous that slavery should be introduced by law in territory where it had no previous existence. To the typical Southerner it seemed no less unjust that his peculiar institutions and usages should be excluded from the common domain, for which his section had paid its share of money and more than its share of blood.
"Give him away, Shorty," drawled the Southerner. "His laig is busted. Mr. Balaam says so." Balaam's face grew evil with baffled fury. But the Virginian was gravely considering Pedro. He, too, was not pleased. But he could not interfere. Already he had overstepped the code in these matters.
'Food for powder? Why, there isn't a lad among them unfit for command." In spite of the indignation in his tone, his voice had the lazy, Southern drawl, and somehow, as he spoke, I thought of my fair prisoner in the mountains, and of how disdainfully she treated me on the occasion of our first meeting. I sincerely hoped her conception of the Southerner had received partial revision since.
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