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Updated: May 14, 2025
Well, you heard what that man said just now that we had found our luck. It's so; we have had good luck since. But I'm sorry; do get on with the story of Jeems' box." "Ah gave it to him Monday," said the swamper slowly. "But, Mistuh Creighton, there weren't nothin' in that chest but some books full of handwritin' most in some funny foreign stuff an' a French prayer-book."
"There are some fuses in the pantry and Jeems will put one in for you," Val promised. With a sniff Lucy withdrew, her fingers still hooked in the collar of her tearful son. Jeems glanced at Val as he went by the boy's cot. And Val didn't care for what he read into that glance. Had the swamper by any foul chance come to suspect Val's little plan? But it all turned out just as he had hoped.
But with a muffled gasp he sank back again, pale and weak. Awkwardly Val forced him back against his pillows. "It's all right," he assured him again. But in answer the swamper shook his head violently, "It ain't all right in the swamp." In a flash Val caught his meaning. Swampers lived on house-boats for the most part, and the boats will outride all but unusual floods.
So somehow Val was not surprised, when he came out upon the edge of the bayou levee, to see Jeems sitting there. "Hello!" The swamper looked up at Val's hail but this time he did not leave. "Hullo," he answered sullenly. Val stood there, ill at ease, while the swamper eyed him composedly. What could he say now?
That same evening Appleton pushed his chair back from the table and glanced toward Ethel, who had got out a bit of crochet-work. Then, with a sidewise glance at his wife, he remarked thoughtfully: "I'm afraid I'll have to get rid of Bill. A Canuck swamper named Leduc complained to me that the boss slipped up on him and knocked him insensible with a club. I can't stand for that not even from Bill."
Val leaned back against the hole of one of the willows. Then she had done it! And what could he do? If he had any idea of her path, he could follow her while Sam aroused Rupert and the house. "If I only knew where " he mused aloud. "She a-goin' to see dat swamper Jeems," Sam continued. "Heh, heh," a sudden cackle of laughter rippled across his lips. "Dat ole swamper think he so sma't.
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