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"P'r'aps Massa Doctor will say him over ag'in," interrupted the old negro, whose memory began to fail him, just as the other made so confident an allusion to his powers of comprehension. "I t'ink I get him by heart dis time." "It is impossible to gather honey from a rock, Caesar, and therefore I will abridge the little I have to say.
"Then it must be that you're afraid of hurting his feelings, Moses, for I know of no other kind of fear." "Pr'aps da's it!" said the negro with a bright look, "now I wouldn't wonder if you's right, Massa Nadgel. It neber come into my head in dat light before. I used to be t'ink, t'inkin' ob nights when I's tired ob countin' my fingers an' toes But I couldn't make nuffin' ob it. Now I knows!
"Why, no, Jules, she couldn't sell your real estate!" the former owner declared. "She would only have a life interest in your share." "You say she couldn't sell it?" "No. She would have nothing but a life interest." "She have only life interest? By gar! I t'ink I pay somebody twenty dollar to kill her!"
The new-comer revealed surprise, not alone at Felipe's sobriety, though this was startling in view of the disorder in the trail, but also at the proffer of cigarette material. And he was about to speak when Felipe interrupted him. "You haf t'ink I'm drunk, eh, Franke?" he said. "Sure! Why not?" And he waved his hand in the direction of the trail.
"Dat good medicine-man, eh? T'ink he know a great deal, eh?" "That is more than I can tell you, Pigeonswing; for though I've been a medicine-man myself, so lately, it is in a different line altogether from that of Parson Amen's."
If you t'ink dat she will like better dat I should be her mother," the word, on her lips, was surprisingly sweet, "den I will do anyt'ing!" All at once she broke into phrases that were foreign to Rose-Marie, phrases spoken lovingly in some almost forgotten tongue.
"Should t'ink yer did," said the colored woman, gazing at her in admiring wonder. "I don't 'llow dar's ennybody come inter dis yer house in one while, dat yer didn't know all 'bout 'em widout settin' eyes on 'em. I wouldn't be at all s'prised, dat I wouldn't," said she to the young lady, "ter find dat she knows whose h'yer now, an' whose been h'yer ebbery day sence Marse Hesden's been so busy.
For me, I'm glad, very glad, for I t'ink my bird is goin' spread her wing' an' fly away south lak all de res', but now bien! I'm satisfy! We go to Dawson." "Your work is here," the girl protested. "I can't take you away from it." "Fonny t'ing 'bout work," 'Poleon said, with a grin. "Plenty tam I try to run away from him, but always he catch up wit' me." "You're a poor man.
"Do you know anything about the country? Are there any trails?" "Dat countree is belong Tawabinisay. He know heem. I don' know heem. I t'ink he is have many hills, some lak'." "Do you think we can climb those hills with packs?" Billy cast a doubtful glance on Dick. Then his eye lit up. "Tawabinisay is tell me 'bout dat Lak' Kawagama. P'rhaps we fine heem." In so saying Billy decided the attempt.
When he had finished, the negro stood for a considerable time gazing in meditative silence at the sky. "Yes," he said at last, as if communing with himself, "I t'ink I ain't quite sure, but I t'ink I may ventur'." "Whatever it is you are thinking about," remarked Nigel, "you may venture to say anything you like to me."
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