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Stormway evidently were at daggers' points, and could not live peaceably together under the same roof. It was a relief just to look at her face, after what they had recently seen. And when she talked, while there was the Southern accent to some extent, they missed that twang and peculiar type of expression so common among the poor whites. "This is Mrs.
Perhaps she had not heard such a pleasant voice for ages; and dim echoes of some far off past had been awakened. "Sho I kin, stranger. It be the second house 'long. Hyah, Danny, yuh gwine tuh show these hyah gentlemen the Stormway place. Git a move on yuh, now, er I'll peel the hide from yuh back, sho.
Thad could not help saying, as soon as his eager eyes alighted on the little cabin. Maurice understood just how he felt; indeed, he was experiencing the same sense of relief; for the sight of filth and poverty combined is a terrible thing. But the Stormway cabin was different. Everywhere could be seen evidences of a woman's hand.
We haven't much to offer you in the way of food, but George here can borrow Captain Peek's mule and go to the store for things." "Not for us," said Maurice, decidedly; "we will be only too glad to stop over with you one night, since you insist, for, of course, there is lots my chum can tell you. And, by the way, Mr. Stallings sent this package to Mrs. Stormway.
Stormway, I reckon?" said Maurice, as he came up. "Yes, that is my name, sir," she replied, while her face lighted up with some sort of expectancy. "My name is Thad Tucker, and I'm from Kentucky, ma'am!" "Oh! Thad Tucker! Then you are the boy father used to write about? What on earth brings you away down here? Have you come to see me?" She was holding his hand now, plainly excited.
He knew that there was no need of violence in this case. Maurice quickly told him who they were, and that, desiring to see George Stormway, bearing good news from the North, they had been directed along the road by the friendly storekeeper. "Don't s'pose now, boys, yuh seen anything o' a pair o' black sheep?
"Here it is, at last; just listen," he exclaimed, fully ten minutes afterward, and then he went on: "I met a man today that had just come up from down-river way. And he knows George Stormway well. He told me Bunny was getting on right well, and had three children. Last time I heard there wa'nt but two mouths to feed.
Yuh see," she added, turning once more to the visitors, "Danny, he's ben over tuh take his lesson from Missus Stormway once a week. He kin read tuh beat the band. Git erlong, Danny, an' yuh 'member what I sez!" Of course there was no necessity for a guide, since they were so near their destination.
It was lyin' in a hole back of the lining of the boat, and just where he kept the few muskrat traps he owned," finished Thad. Mrs. Stormway began to undo the string, though her hands trembled so she could hardly make much progress. Finally George himself had to take possession and cut the cord with a knife.
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