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"After a bit, I looked up and Ol' Blacky Baldwin was gone; the teacheh looked peaked an' seemed kind o' skeered, but he didn't say anythin'." "Well, it was a little scary," said Hamilton. "I don't wonder it shook him up." "That was only the beginnin'," the storyteller went on.
Hamilton shivered a little, for the mountain boy told the story as though he were living through the scene again. "I don't wonder you got scared," he said. "Did he come to?" "Not right then," the boy answered. "We waited a while an' then some of the fellers got up an' went out sof'ly. I went, too, an' the teacheh never even seemed to see us go." "Didn't you think he had gone crazy?"
"Wa'al, he'd wake up in the night screamin', 'I'm fallin', I'm fallin', and no one wanted to have a ha'nted teacher in the house. An' Blacky Baldwin, he jes' hung aroun' the school, and we-all would see him every day, mutterin' an' laughin' to himself. Then, suddintly, Teacheh disappeared, an' though we hunted fo' him everywhar, he wasn' found.
"I reckoned you-all would come along this way," he said, "an' I've be'n thinkin' more'n more 'bout Teacheh havin' likely gone to the city, an' not bein' dead after all. Yo' goin' to the city now?" "I'm going to Washington, Bill," Hamilton answered. "Is that the city?" "It's one of them." "Do yo' s'pose that'd be the city Teacheh went to?"
It never was, but thar was a plenty o' people who believed the story. I didn't, but then the teacheh was allers good to me." "But what did the revenue men have to do with the 'cunjering'?" asked Hamilton, desiring to keep his informant to the point. "They didn't, it was the men on the Ridge." "Do you know how it happened?"
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