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"Yer right, Jim," drawled Joseph Zachariah, lounging in the doorway. "I heerd Zeke White tell 'er he was er-comin' ter-night." "Mar " began Mandy Calline, looking at her mother appealingly. "Shet up, you boys," came in answer. "Zachariah, ha' ye parted th' cows 'n' calves?" "No, 'm." "Then be erbout it straight erway. Jim you Jeems Henry!" "Ya'as, 'm," from outside the window.
"The dusk 'pears slow ter-night, but Spot's mighty late comin' home, an' old Sue air fractious an' contrairy-minded, and feels mighty anxious an' oneasy 'boutn her calf, that's ez tall ez she is nowadays, an' don't keer no mo' 'bout her mammy 'n a half-grown human does. I tell her she oughtn't ter be mad with me, but with the way she brung up her chile, ez won't notice her now."
"When can I get a train from the station?" "There's one as leaves anywhere 'twixt nine and ten ter-night." "That gives me time to pack. See here, White, while it isn't any of your business, I want to explain a thing or two before I go. I'll be back as soon as I can in a week or ten days at furthest. When I return I intend to stay on, probably for the rest of my life."
"Sho, yo haint a-goin' out er this house ter-night, friend," broke in the old man. "Leastwise, ef yo'r willin' ter put up with sech accommodations as the loft room offers ye. Thar haint no sense of yer takin' er five-mile walk through them drenched bushes, an' gittin' soaked yerself." "In course yer goin' ter stay," echoed the girl, with childlike delight.
Ye won't need that axe ter-night, Dennis." "Why?" "Wait an' see!" was the short answer. They hurried from the woods and had scarcely reached the edge of the field when suddenly old Boney's cry stopped short and in a moment the others were silent. "Good Lord, they've lost it!" Dennis groaned. And then came the quick, sharp, fierce bark of the leader announcing that the quarry had been located.
"Ef we do we shall get there some time ter-night, but ef we stay here we shan't, that's sartin." "Do you suppose they'll follow us?" inquired I. "Sartin sure," responded Jerry; "but I reckon by good engineerin' we kin keep 'em off, so that their arrers won't hurt us much: it's a mighty lucky thing they ain't got no firearms." We immediately mounted our horses and rode out upon the plain.
I've dun well 'nuff; and yit, Jim, if thar should cum ther summons ter-night, and I knowd I'd got ter go, I wouldn't hev a sorrer 'cept thet we haven't passed on ther mine yit." Then Sedgwick realized that in the selfishness of his own loneliness at leaving his bride, he had forgotten his friend, and that he had all the time been concealing a deeper grief and trying to cheer him.
Did n' you promus me, ef I 'd gib you dat goopher, you 'd come en 'po't ter me 'bout all w'at wuz gwine on on dis plantation Co'se I could 'a' foun' out fer myse'f, but I 'pended on yo' tellin' me, en now by not doin' it I's feared you gwine spile my cunj'in'. You come down ter my house ter-night en do w'at I tells you, er I'll put a spell on you dat 'll make yo' ha'r fall out so you'll be bal', en yo' eyes drap out so you can't see, en yo teef fall out so you can't eat, en yo' years grow up so you can't heah.
"Hank," began the captain, "speak me fair and above board, mate who give yer that letter ter bring ter me ter-night?" "What letter?" blankly responded Hank, a look of vacancy in his shifty eyes. "Oh, yer know well enough; that letter yer give me at supper time." "Captain, I'll give you my davy I don't know what you're talking about," returned the beachcomber.
"But there's no train home ter-night, Nancy. This is a little town, an' there's only two er three trains a day. Ye must hev told in yer letter that ye was goin' ter visit yer aunt, didn't yer?" "I don't know whether I said visit or not, but truly I didn't think you meant to stay over night," Nancy replied. "Wal, I guess ye said so, an' here's the street.
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