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When he rose to go he asked her if she had a photograph of herself. She laughed. "No, I ain't never had my pictur' took since I was a young girl and had it on a tintype." Nothing daunted, the young man asked for it; but she had to tell him that she had lost it years ago; and then he asked if he might take her photograph as she sat there in her high-backed chair.
"The day before he went away, I met him in the post-office, accidental, and he says: 'Miss Matilda, I've got somethin' for you if you'll accept it, and he took me over to one side where there couldn't nobody see us, and he give me his tintype. And he says: 'I hope you'll always remember me, Miss Matilda. You'll promise not to forget me, won't you? "And I promised," she resumed, "and I ain't.
"Tell Jim to quote the lowest cash prices," he said, absent-mindedly. "But it's a order, suh," said the negro. "Oh yes; I see it is. Well, ship it; it's all right." "Would you like to see his picture?" Dixie asked. She had taken the crude tintype from her pocket and held it in her lap. "Yes, I would," Henley replied, and he took the picture and looked at it. He didn't like it.
"And who may this be?" he demanded, pointing to the tintype of a bright-faced young girl. "That? Oh, that's my cousin Grace when she was sixteen. She died; but she was a wonderful girl. I'll tell you about her." "Yes, do," urged Mr. Smith; and even the closest observer, watching his face, could not have said that he was not absorbedly interested in Miss Flora's story of "my cousin Grace."
They say he has a notion he is holding it in trust. He is rational enough in every other way, a shrewd investor, in fact. His uncle, General Waite, who left him the money, was a connection of my grandmother's." "The Miser is a cousin then?" "Not on your tintype, my friend. Old Knight was a nephew of the general's wife, you see." "And there were no other heirs?" asked the Candy Man.
When all hands was through, that photographer was a spiled negative. "And that was only the beginning. They ain't much fun abusing Kanakas because they don't talk back, but first along Rosy would try to talk back, and that give 'em a chance. Julius had learned a lot of things from that mate on the bark, and he tried 'em all on that tintype man. And afterward they invented more.
"I haven't a doubt in the world but what we can beat them, but just the same we'll have to do our prettiest to get the long end of the decision." "Bet your tintype we will," said Tom; "both those teams are a tough proposition for anybody to handle. But there will be all the more glory for us when we win."
One man wanted dad to cash a check, 'cause the bank was closed, and he was a rich-looking duke, and dad was just going to get his roll out and peel off some more onion, when I said: "Not on your tintype, Mr. Duke," and dad left his roll in his pocket, and the duke gave me a look as though he wanted to choke me, and went away, saying: "There is Mr. Pierpont Morgan, and I can get him to cash it."
Say, Mary-'Gusta, don't you say nothin' to either him or Zoeth, will you? You see it's it's a kind of little secret we have amongst us and and nobody else is in on it. 'Twas this plaguey tintype got me to talkin'. No wonder neither! I never see such a look on two folks. I there, there! Good night, Mary-'Gusta, good night." He tossed the photograph on the bureau and hurried out of the room.
Chase heaved a sigh. "You're sartin 'tis?" he asked. "Of course I am." "Well, then I cal'late it must be. But if Ed Farmer had lived all these years and had had his tintype took he wouldn't get one to favor him more than that does, I bet you. My, it give me a start, comin' onto me so unexpected!" "But who is Ed Farmer?" asked Mary. The name had meant nothing to her so far.
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